Diploma of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care - HLT50113

Type of institution: Registered Training Organisation
Level: Pre-degree
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This qualification reflects the role of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people working to provide a range of primary health care services to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients. The Diploma of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care defines the knowledge and skills for workers involved in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care and who work autonomously under the broad guidance of others. The Diploma qualification covers workers who have a basis of skills and knowledge in primary health care, which they may apply in program delivery, management, and policy or education functions.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.

Structure

• 30 units: 20 core
• 10 elective

Subjects

• Plan for community emergencies
• Oversee asset management
• 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
• Coordinate information systems
• Undertake research activities
• Build capacity to promote health
• Work effectively with young people and their families
• Support individual health and emotional well being
• Participate in assessment validation
• Promote community awareness of domestic and family violence
• Develop employment policies
• Identify and respond to children and young people at risk
• Counsel clients affected by domestic and family violence
• 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
• Provide advanced interventions to meet the needs of clients with alcohol and-or other drug 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
• Provide support to children affected by domestic and family violence
• Survey stakeholders to gather and record information
• Manage work health and safety
• Support group activities
• Provide domestic and family violence support in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
• Promote team effectiveness
• Support clients and groups to learn practical aspects of oral health care
• Work effectively in social and emotional wellbeing
• Work collaboratively to maintain an environment safe for children and young people
• Provide leadership across the organisation
• Undertake basic health assessments
• 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
• Provide mentoring support to colleagues
• Work within a community development framework
• Respond effectively to behaviours of concern
• Deliver primary health care to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients in confinement
• Provide information and strategies in health care
• Conduct screening hearing tests for industrial hearing loss
• Manage own professional development in responding to domestic and family violence
• 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
• Support and promote social and emotional wellbeing of staff and clients
• Analyse and present research information
• Manage people performance
• Respond to loss, grief and trauma
• Provide competent suicide intervention in a telephone counselling context
• Contribute to the development and implementation of organisational policies
• 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
• Secure funding
• Support community action
• Facilitate access to tertiary health services
• Address impact of food security on community health
• Provide services for young people appropriate to their needs and circumstances
• Support the safe use of medications
• Provide work skill instruction
• Assess competence
• Work effectively with culturally diverse clients and co-workers
• Develop a healing framework for social and emotional wellbeing work
• Recognise and respond to signs and symptoms that may indicate oral health issues
• Facilitate responsible behaviour
• Engage in community health research
• Provide advanced supports to facilitate recovery
• 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
• Reflect and improve upon counselling skills
• Work effectively in the alcohol and other drugs sector
• Plan and conduct group activities
• Manage in a health care business
• Implement office systems
• Work within a structured counselling framework
• Work effectively with the Board of an organisation
• Oversee organisational planning
• Provide needle and syringe services
• Implement health promotion and community intervention
• Apply and manage use of basic oral health products
• Implement and monitor infection control policy and procedures
• Use basic oral health screening tools
• Plan, organise and deliver group-based learning
• Recruit, select and induct staff
• 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
• Review human resources functions
• Provide healthy lifestyle programs and advice
• Work intensively with clients
• Facilitate the development of community capacity to manage place
• Develop community resources
• Plan, develop and evaluate health promotion and community development programs
• Provide interventions to clients who are nicotine dependent
• Facilitate adult learning and development
• Develop and implement procedures to enable young people to address their needs
• Provide or assist with oral hygiene
• Manage budgets
• Develop a disaster plan
• Evaluate a population health project
• Support clients in decision-making processes
• Provide information and strategies in sexual health for women
• Control organisational finances
• Develop and provide community education projects
• Identify community health issues, needs and strategies
• 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
• Develop enterprise opportunities
• Facilitate workplace debriefing and support processes
• Coordinate business resources
• Provide information and strategies in sexual health for men
• Provide systems advocacy services
• Share health information
• Plan, organise and facilitate learning in the workplace
• Support youth programs
• Advocate on behalf of the community
• 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
• Respond holistically to client issues and refer appropriately
• Support positive lifestyle
• Plan for medical emergencies
• Conduct screening hearing tests for children
• Manage meetings
• Manage community health projects
• Support client self-management
• Conduct assessment and planning as part of the recovery process
• Manage the control of infection
• Provide brief intervention
• Work with clients who are intoxicated
• Plan a population health project
• Implement a case work strategy
• Collect, analyse and record information
• Establish and maintain community, government and business partnerships
• Develop, facilitate and monitor all aspects of case management
• Apply a population health framework
• Facilitate the counselling relationship
• Assess needs of clients with alcohol and-or other drugs issues
• Manage the delivery of quality services to clients
• Oversee financial management
• Manage service response to young people in crisis
• Promote high quality case management
• Ensure team effectiveness
• Support community participation
• Apply a strategic approach to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health
• 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
• Apply reflective practice in an Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander primary health care setting
• Develop workplace policy and procedures for sustainability
• Provide information and strategies in maternal and infant health
• Supervise health care team
• Provide support services to clients

Study information

Fee comments

Campuses: Hervey Bay.

Subsidised funding available for eligible students residing in Queensland. The Diploma is offered through VET FEE-HELP for eligible students.

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