HLTAHA044 - Work within a community rehabilitation environment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work-based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

• facilitate involvement and participation of three people, one in simulation and two in the workplace, in the rehabilitation process within the context of rehabilitation plans
• perform the activities outlined in the performance criteria of this unit during a period of at least 120 hours of allied health assistance work. At least 60% of this work must be carried out in an allied health workplace. The remaining 40% may be carried out in a simulated environment, if an allied health workplace is unavailable.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

• allied health core competencies:

• person-centred care
• individual therapy
• group therapy
• communication of information
• equipment and environment

• the importance and meaning of home and belongings to persons and the nature and significance of working in the person’s home and community settings
• the importance and practice of participation, social justice and equity
• values and philosophies of community rehabilitation in practice
• different frameworks, approaches and models of community rehabilitation
• cross cultural issues in a community rehabilitation context
• community advocacy groups
• importance of principles and practices to enhance sustainability in the workplace, including environmental, economic, workforce and social sustainability
• international classification of functioning, disability and health
• organisational policy and procedures in relation to:

• confidentiality:

  privacy
  disclosure

• duty of care
• documentation:

  reporting
  recording data
  written communication to Allied Health Professional

• professional behaviour and presentation
• infection control practices
• work health and safety (WHS)
• manual handling
• personal protective equipment (PPE)
• supervision and delegation
• risk assessment and risk management associated with working in person's homes and the community

• scope of practice of the Allied Health Assistant and Allied Health Professional
• relevant national or state-based community services and programs and local community care services
• medico-legal and legal implications of working outside the plans, specifically treatment style plan
• principles of empowering the older person
• principles of empowering people living with disability or serious mental illness
• changes related to ageing
• concepts of holistic health and wellbeing
• social determinants of health.
• concepts of the medical model, the biopsychosocial models and the human rights-based approach of allied health interventions
• principles of choice and control
• concept of reablement
• allied health settings:

• hospital
• community health
• mental health
• disability sector
• aged care sectors.