Certificate IV in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care Practice - HLT40213

Type of institution: Registered Training Organisation
Level: Vocational Education and Training (VET)
CRICOS:

This qualification reflects the role of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people working to provide a range of clinical primary health care services to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients and communities, including specific health care programs, advice and assistance with, and administration of, medication. These workers can be expected to flexibly assume a variety of job roles and undertake a broad range of tasks either individually or as a member of a multidisciplinary team.This qualification addresses the specific legislative responsibilities of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners and is required for national registration with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practice Board of Australia.

Structure

• 21 units: 14 core
• 7 elective

Subjects

• Provide support and care relating to loss and grief
• Provide services to people with disabilities with complex needs
• Collect pathology specimens other than blood
• Recognise and respond to individuals at risk
• Supervise individual workers
• Provide information and support around cancer
• Work with users of violence to effect change
• Address social determinants of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health
• Use media to disseminate information
• Assess and manage emergency treatment of burns
• Undertake research activities
• Build capacity to promote health
• Identify and respond to clinical risks associated with pathology specimen collection
• Work effectively with young people and their families
• Work with Elders in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities
• Promote community awareness of domestic and family violence
• Participate in workplace health and safety
• Identify and respond to children and young people at risk
• Identify clients with language, literacy and numeracy needs and respond effectively
• Work effectively with young people in the youth work context
• Develop, implement and review services and programs to meet client needs
• Maintain community health profile
• Provide alcohol and-or other drug withdrawal services
• Work effectively with clients with complex alcohol and-or other drugs issues
• Deliver primary health care programs for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities
• Work within a relevant legal and ethical framework
• Apply understanding of mental health issues and recovery processes
• Promote burns prevention in homes and the community
• Provide support to children affected by domestic and family violence
• Survey stakeholders to gather and record information
• Perform blood collection
• Provide domestic and family violence support in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
• Provide support to people living with dementia
• Promote team effectiveness
• Support clients and groups to learn practical aspects of oral health care
• Work collaboratively to maintain an environment safe for children and young people
• Respond to emergencies
• Provide a range of services to people with mental health issues
• Respond to critical situations
• Establish and monitor a case plan
• Provide information and support to women with breast cancer
• Assess client's physical wellbeing
• Provide mentoring support to colleagues
• Work within a community development framework
• Respond effectively to behaviours of concern
• Provide information and strategies in health care
• Conduct screening hearing tests for industrial hearing loss
• Inform and encourage clients and groups to understand and achieve good oral health
• Provide nutrition guidance for specific health care
• Plan and conduct a community meeting
• Provide information on smoking and smoking cessation
• Reflect on and improve own professional practice
• Analyse and present research information
• Respond to loss, grief and trauma
• Provide competent suicide intervention in a telephone counselling context
• Use targeted communication skills to build relationships
• Implement a burns rehabilitation care plan
• Support the rights and safety of children and young people
• Contribute to assessment
• Provide information and strategies in eye health
• Work effectively in mental health settings
• Work in alcohol, other drugs & mental health care w/ Aboriginal &/or Torres Strait Islander Comm.
• Recognise and respond appropriately to domestic and family violence
• Facilitate and advocate for the rights and needs of clients and community members
• Facilitate access to tertiary health services
• Address impact of food security on community health
• Support the safe use of medications
• Provide work skill instruction
• Assess and promote physical and emotional wellbeing of children
• Assess competence
• Administer medications
• Work effectively with culturally diverse clients and co-workers
• Recognise and respond to signs and symptoms that may indicate oral health issues
• Facilitate responsible behaviour
• Provide interventions to meet the needs of consumers with mental health and AOD issues
• Provide support to people with chronic disease
• Plan assessment activities and processes
• Assess and support client's social and emotional wellbeing
• Work effectively in the alcohol and other drugs sector
• Provide needle and syringe services
• Implement health promotion and community intervention
• Apply and manage use of basic oral health products
• Use basic oral health screening tools
• Plan, organise and deliver group-based learning
• Manage simple projects
• Maintain a population health database
• Participate in policy development
• Provide information/strategies to enhance capacities of Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander families
• Support young people to create opportunities in their lives
• Provide information and strategies in chronic condition care
• Provide healthy lifestyle programs and advice
• Facilitate the development of community capacity to manage place
• Plan, develop and evaluate health promotion and community development programs
• Provide interventions to clients who are nicotine dependent
• Implement a disaster plan
• Facilitate adult learning and development
• Develop population health competencies in other people
• Assess readiness for and effect behaviour change
• Provide or assist with oral hygiene
• Comply with infection control policies and procedures
• Provide information and strategies in sexual health for women
• Provide information and support on environmental health issues
• Develop and provide community education projects
• Identify community health issues, needs and strategies
• Conduct work within a compliance framework
• Provide services to clients with complex needs
• Work within specific communities
• Assess and respond to individuals at risk of suicide
• Assist with prevention and minimisation of substance misuse
• Work in an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander primary health care context
• Coordinate business resources
• Provide information and strategies in sexual health for men
• Share health information
• Plan, organise and facilitate learning in the workplace
• Plan, implement and monitor health care in a primary health care context
• Work with the community to identify health needs
• Provide telephone counselling in crisis situations
• Provide first aid
• Develop work priorities
• Apply fluoride varnish
• Respond holistically to client issues and refer appropriately
• Support positive lifestyle
• Conduct screening hearing tests for children
• Monitor early childhood growth and development
• Support client self-management
• Conduct assessment and planning as part of the recovery process
• Provide brief intervention
• Work with clients who are intoxicated
• Plan a population health project
• Collect, analyse and record information
• Establish and maintain community, government and business partnerships
• Apply a population health framework
• Assess needs of clients with alcohol and-or other drugs issues
• Establish and maintain communication and relationships to support the recovery process
• Provide crisis intervention and support to those experiencing domestic and family violence
• Implement community development strategies
• Provide information and strategies in maternal and infant health
• Supervise health care team
• Contribute to policy development
• Provide support services to clients

Study information

Fee comments

Campuses: Waterford.

This course is free (except for a resource fee) for Newstart and Youth Allowance recipients and Jobseeker ID card holders.

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