HLTAHA029 — Support independence and community participation
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What an assessment for HLTAHA029 must cover
72 assessable components: 6 elements (25 performance criteria), 2 performance evidence and 45 knowledge evidence requirements. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.
Elements & performance criteria
1 Receive delegation and gather information.
- 1.1Obtain written or verbal delegation for an allied health activity from the Allied Health Professional.
- 1.2Obtain information from relevant sources and delegating Allied Health Professional, according to organisational policy and procedures.
- 1.3Discuss and confirm with delegating Allied Health Professional plans and programs.
2 Confirm rehabilitation plans to achieve the person’s goals.
- 2.1Support delegating Allied Health Professional to identify the person’s access, support requirements and daily living activities that need to be addressed as part of the rehabilitation plan.
- 2.2Work with the delegating Allied Health Professional to identify the function of community rehabilitation in supporting the person’s access and daily living activities that enhance progress against rehabilitation goals.
- 2.3Participate in rehabilitation planning to assist the delegating Allied Health Professional to provide resources promoting the person’s independence.
- 2.4Clarify with the delegating Allied Health Professional concerns in relation to work health and safety (WHS), community access and daily living activities.
3 Advocate person’s independence and community participation.
- 3.1Identify all support or services provided to the person in conjunction with the health team.
- 3.2Assist in determining strategies which support the person’s progression towards identified rehabilitation goals.
- 3.3Promote benefits of daily living activities and community participation in the terms of the person’s rehabilitation goals within parameters of the delegation and scope of practice.
- 3.4Discuss with delegating Allied Health Professional opportunities for daily living activities and community participation that will support rehabilitation goals, including those that maybe outside the rehabilitation plan.
- 3.5Assist delegating Allied Health Professional to identify and overcome concerns through provision of coordinated and consistent support to the person.
4 Support the person’s independence and community participation.
- 4.1Address the person’s concerns about participating in daily living activities and community access.
- 4.2Work with the delegating Allied Health Professional and the person to develop strategies to overcome the person’s concerns, under the delegation and supervision of the Allied Health Professional.
- 4.3Identify any aides, appliances, modifications or other services or supports that might be required and discuss with delegating Allied Health Professional.
- 4.4Provide educational materials, information and support to facilitate use of any aides, appliances and modifications in a safe and effective way.
5 Monitor impact of increased independence and community participation on rehabilitation goals.
- 5.1Monitor outcomes in daily living activities and community participation to ensure they support the rehabilitation goals within scope of practice.
- 5.2Report any negative impacts to delegating Allied Health Professional.
- 5.3Report medical issues and risk factors related to activities of daily living and report in line with delegation.
- 5.4Monitor changes in health and physical status prior to providing support and report in line with delegation.
- 5.5Apply strategies to involve the person in the self-monitoring and evaluation process.
- 5.6Provide the person with regular feedback of progress.
6 Document information.
- 6.1Document information relating to the rehabilitation program in line with organisational requirements.
- 6.2Provide regular feedback to the person’s delegating Allied Health Professional.
- 6.3Document the person’s progress and any barriers or challenges to the rehabilitation plan in line with organisational procedures.
Performance evidence
- facilitate three different people, one in simulation and two in the workplace, to access and participate in the community 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.
Knowledge evidence
- procedures for escalation of risks
- allied health core competencies:
- person-centred care
- individual therapy
- group therapy
- communication of information
- equipment and environment
- cross cultural issues in a community rehabilitation context
- community care service providers
- organisational policies and procedures in relation to:
- confidentiality
- documentation
- reporting
- recording data
- written communication to delegating Allied Health Professional
- professional behaviour and presentation
- infection control practices
- work health and safety (WHS)
- manual handling
- supervisory, delegation
- risk assessment and risk management associated with working in a person’s home and the community
- evaluation processes
- scope of practice of the Allied Health Assistant and Allied Health Professional
- philosophy and values of community rehabilitation
- psychological impact of illness or injury, relating to a person’s participation in daily living activities and routines
- range of aides, appliances, modifications and services that could promote a person’s participation in daily living activities and facilitate community access
- relevant national and state-based community services and programs and local community care service providers
- importance of community access and participation to person’s well being
- motivational strategies to promote a person’s interest in accessing and participating in the community
- the importance and meaning of home and belongings to people and the nature and significance of working in a person’s home and community settings
- 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 as wellbeing, rather than focusing on disease or its absence
- social determinants of health
- national framework for advance care planning
- 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.
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