Overview
This unit will enable you to further develop and demonstrate the necessary knowledge and practical skills required of a competent Allied Health Assistant through an 80 hour work-integrated learning experience. Depending upon the setting for your work experience, you may be required to follow therapeutic treatment plans and interventions under the supervision of an Allied Health professional. Further, you will be guided to develop a portfolio of evidence that illustrates your capacity to operate as an Allied Health Assistant.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisites: ALLH11001 Introduction to Allied Health ALLH11009 Research Methods for Health Professionals ALLH11006 Life Course Development for Health Professionals BMSC11007 Medical Anatomy and Physiology 1
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 3 - 2019
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Residential Schools
This unit has a Compulsory Residential School for distance mode students and the details are:
Click here to see your Residential School Timetable.
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
- Behave professionally and ethically within an Allied Health setting
- Demonstrate skills and competencies typical of an Allied Health Assistant
- Reflect upon the scope of practice of an Allied Health Assistant
- Develop a portfolio of documents relevant for the attainment of the vocational award of Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance.
Upon the successful completion of this unit, you may be eligible to apply for the vocational award of Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance
Conditions apply.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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| 1 - Professional Practice Placement - 0% | ||||
| 2 - Portfolio - 0% | ||||
| 3 - Practical Assessment - 0% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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| 1 - Communication | ||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
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| 3 - Practical Assessment - 0% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 6th Edition (APA 6th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
m.j.hayman@cqu.edu.au
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The aim of this unit is to cover all necessary content in the first half of term and prior to your compulsory residential school (scheduled 13-15 January 2020).
During residential school, you will be assessed for competence across all areas relevant to the Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance.
After demonstrating competence, you will then be permitted to commence your professional placement / work-integrated learning (80 hours required).
1 Professional Practice Placement
You will be required to undertake and complete 80 hours of professional placement / work-integrated learning within an allied health setting.
This placement is a requirement of the Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance VET award.
Further details regarding your professional placement are available on the ALLH11010 Skills for Allied Health Assistants Moodle page, located under the 'Professional Placement' tab.
Professional placement should be completed by Friday 28th February 2020
All assessment tasks will be returned within 2 weeks of the original submission, in accordance with CQUniversity policy
During your professional placement / work-integrated learning, you will be assessed against the following performance criteria:
1. Provide relevant information to clients
- Adhere to confidentiality policies at all times
- Provide basic accurate information to clients regarding allied health services
2. Prepare for therapy session
- Confirm and discuss therapy and treatment plans and programs with supervising allied health professional
- Obtain information from relevant sources according to organisation policies and supervising allied health professional
- Check resources and equipment required for therapy program to ensure suitability and working order
- Recognise and minimise environmental hazards in accordance with organisation requirements
- Prepare the client for therapy under direction of supervising allied health professional
3. Provide assistance with therapy session
- Assist with therapy tasks according to instructions of allied health professional
- Maintain general therapy precautions
- Seek clarification and feedback
- Take appropriate actions to ensure comfort, safety and privacy of the client
- Reinforce, clarify and explain therapy goals to clients under supervision of allied health professional
- Support and coach clients to achieve identified therapy goals under supervision of allied health professional
- Deal with accidents and incidents appropriately and report to the supervising allied health professional
4. Use therapy equipment correctly and safely
- Use equipment according to manufacturer and instructions set by supervising allied health professional
- Follow work health and safety (WHS) guidelines for particular pieces of equipment
5. Feedback appropriate therapy information to supervising allied health professional
- Pass on significant information to appropriate supervising allied health professional
- Document information according to organisation policy and procedures
6. Assist in the design and construction of simple therapy materials and equipment
- Assist the allied health professional to identify gaps in therapy material resources and develop solutions
- Update therapy materials on a regular basis as instructed
- Construct aids and adaptations in accordance with allied health professional’s instructions
7. Complete required administrative duties
- Maintain statistics in accordance with organisation policies and procedures
- Maintain stock levels in accordance with organisation policies and procedures
- Book in clients for appointments in accordance with organisation policies and procedures
8. Work with a primary health care approach
- Support and facilitate the involvement of the client and the community in the planning and provision of services according to instruction of supervising allied health professional
- Promote good health and a preventive approach to maintaining health as part of own work role
- Demonstrate recognition of and support for the importance of access and equity in provision of health services in line with own work role
- Reflect evidence based practice in own provision of health care services
- Behave professionally and ethically within an Allied Health setting
- Demonstrate skills and competencies typical of an Allied Health Assistant
- Reflect upon the scope of practice of an Allied Health Assistant
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
- Social Innovation
2 Portfolio
This task will require you to collate evidence that demonstrates competencies of the Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance award into a portfolio, including the following documents:
- Professional placement workbook of competence
- Practical Assessment workbook of competence
- Evidence documentation (including but not limited to vaccinations, current first aid certification, completed professional placement training via Queensland Health)
Further details regarding your portfolio assessment tsk are available on the ALLH11010 Skills for Allied Health Assistants Moodle page, located under the 'Assessment' tab.
This portfolio assessment task should be completed by Friday 28th February 2020
All assessment tasks will be returned within 2 weeks of the original submission, in accordance with CQUniversity policy
You will be assessed against the following performance criteria:
- All necessary evidence has been provided
- All evidence meets required standards
- All evidence is presented in an appropriate manner including consistent formatting, layout and structure
- Reflect upon the scope of practice of an Allied Health Assistant
- Develop a portfolio of documents relevant for the attainment of the vocational award of Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
3 Practical Assessment
You will be required to attend a compulsory 3 day residential school where you will be required to demonstrate competency across all VET requirements for the Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance, as detailed below:
- Elements and performance criteria
- Performance evidence
- Knowledge evidence
- Assessment requirements
This assessment will be performed by an externally qualified VET assessor.
Further details regarding your practical assessment are available on the ALLH11010 Skills for Allied Health Assistants Moodle page, located under the 'Residential School' tab.
Week 9 Monday (20 Jan 2020) 9:00 am AEST
Your compulsory residential school is scheduled from Monday 13th January - Wednesday 15th January 2020
Week 11 Monday (3 Feb 2020)
All assessment tasks will be returned within 2 weeks of the original submission, in accordance with CQUniversity policy
During your residential school, you will be assessed against the performance criteria contained within the following units of the Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance VET award:
- BSBMED301 Interpret and apply medical termonology appropriately
- CHCCCS010 Maintaining a high standard of care
- CHCCOM005 Communicate and work in health or community services
- CHCHIV001 Work with diverse people
- CHCCCS002 Assist with Movement
- CHCDIV002 Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety
- HLTAHA001 Assist with an allied health program
- HLTAAP001 Recognise healthy body systems
- HLTINF001 Comply with infection prevention and control policies and procedures
- HLTWHO001 Participate in workplace health and safety
- Behave professionally and ethically within an Allied Health setting
- Demonstrate skills and competencies typical of an Allied Health Assistant
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Ethical practice
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
