Description

Pre Requisites

Application

Perormance Criteria

Required Skills & Knowledge

•  Relevant organisation policies, protocols and procedures
•  Operation of relevant equipment and technology
•  Local resources
•  Key community networks
•  Client confidentiality
•  Local disaster planning processes
•  Legislation protocols and policies or guidelines
•  Networks development
•  Roles and responsibilities as defined by the emergency action plan
•  Community views/directions on responding to emergencies.
•  Cultural and community specific information
•  A broad knowledge base relating to individual and community health, including:

              - biology and development

              - psychology

              - disease and treatment options

              - culture and tradition

Required skills

•  Consult with community members to identify key needs in an emergency
•  Comply with existing emergency plans, procedures and protocols in relation to own role in an emergency
•  Provide feedback about the effectiveness of existing action plans

Range Statement

• This competency standard supports the recognition, protection and continued advancement of the inherent rights, cultures and traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
• It recognises that the improvement of the health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people must include attention to physical, spiritual, cultural, emotional and social well-being, community capacity and governance
• Its application must be culturally sensitive and supportive of traditional healing and health, knowledge and practices

• Community participation and control in decisionmaking is essential to all aspects of health work, and the role of the health worker is to support the community in this process

• Supervision must be conducted in accordance with prevailing state/territory and organisation legislative and regulatory requirements
• References to supervision may include either direct or indirect supervision of work by more experienced workers, supervisors, managers or other health professionals
• A person at this level should only be required to make decisions about clients within the organisation’s standard treatment protocols and associated guidelines

• Federal, state or territory legislation may impact on workers’ practices and responsibilities. Implementation of the competency standards should reflect the legislative framework in which a health worker
• operates. It is recognised that this may sometimes reduce the application of the Range of Variables in practice. However, assessment in the workplace or through simulation should address all essential skills
• and knowledge across the Range of Variables Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Workers may be required to operate in situations that do not constitute ‘usual practice’ due to lack of resources,
• remote locations and community needs. As a result, they may need to possess more competencies than described by ‘usual practice circumstances’
• Under all circumstances, the employer must enable the worker to function within the prevailing legislative framework

•  Supervisor/manager
•  Emergency action plan co-ordinator

•  trauma experienced by community members and/or the community
•  other situations that create personal distress to community members and/or the community
•  hazardous environmental incidents
•  car and other vehicle accidents
•  plane crashes
•  mining accidents
•  epidemic diseases
•  any other situations which require an urgent response
•  bomb threats

•  Key members of the community
•  Community council
•  Health service providers
•  Health workers
•  Other personnel

•  Guidelines and/or plans for responding to the various types of emergencies that might be predicted in the community or workplace

•  Counselling
•  Other responses to community trauma
•  Provision of resources and services
•  De-briefing
•  Mobilising other service providers
•  Raising awareness (both within and externally) of
• the emergency faced by the community
•  Ceremonies
•  Implementing actions requested by the community
• council
•  Types of treatment
•  Providing access to resources
•  Co-operative arrangements with other service
• providers, including government and nongovernment
• organisations
•  Evacuation

•  Premises/facilities
•  Equipment and supplies
•  Vehicles/transport
•  Specific skills in workers

•  The person in the community or service who is assigned the responsibility of coordinating the full implementation of the emergency action plan

Evidence Guide

•  The individual being assessed must provide evidence of specified essential knowledge as well as skills
•  Consistency of performance should be demonstrated over the required range of situations relevant to the workplace
•  Where, for reasons of safety, space, or access to equipment and resources, assessment takes place away from the workplace, the assessment
• environment should represent workplace conditions as closely as possible