Certificate II in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care - HLT20121
Fox Education and Consultancy
Type of institution: Registered Training Organisation
Level: Pre-degree
CRICOS: 03920B
This qualification reflects the role of individuals working in health care support roles in a diversity of locations including urban, rural and remote settings. It is specific to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people who work under direct supervision as part of a multidisciplinary health care team providing primary health care services to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients and communities. Work may involve transporting clients, providing information to clients, helping clients to access health services and completing other routine administrative or operational tasks.This qualification provides foundational skills for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander primary health care work. It could be used to encourage a primary health care career path, and to prepare individuals for further training.This qualification provides a pathway to work in a range of health care settings including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community organisations, and the public or private health sector.The skills in this qualification must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian standards and industry codes of practice.No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.
Subjects
- Apply basic principles and practices of infection prevention and control
- Perform general cleaning tasks in a clinical setting
- Deliver medicines to customers outside the pharmacy
- Participate in workplace health and safety
- Interpret and apply medical terminology appropriately
- Recognise healthy body systems
- Assist customers with prescriptions
- Work with diverse people
- Provide information and support on environmental health issues
- Collect and record data
- Complete routine workplace formatted texts
- Use whole numbers and simple fractions, decimals and percentages for work
- Support clients to access health services
- Operate digital devices
- Transport individuals
- Conduct manual tasks safely
- Read and respond to simple and familiar workplace procedures
- Apply the principles of confidentiality, privacy and security within the medical environment
- Use business resources
- Work in an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health support role
- Provide First Aid
- Process and maintain workplace information
- Provide basic health service information to clients
- Apply communication skills
- Operate communications systems and equipment
- Support the supply of Pharmacy Medicines and Pharmacist Only Medicines
- Assist in controlling stocks and supplies
