MODULES DESCRIPTIONS : CERTIFICATE IN HEALTH AND CARE ASSISTANCE (LEVEL 3) (AGED CARE)

Fundamentals of Healthcare Assistance
Explain the role, responsibilities and tasks of a healthcare assistant in a healthcare setting.

Health and Safety Practices
Describe a care recipient’s rights and the healthcare assistant’s duty of care under the Code of Rights

Risks and Safeguarding Adults
Compile a personal and vocational skills audit and produce a work experience plan, including statement of learning goals, for work experience placement in a healthcare setting.

Safe Care and Cultural Awareness
Describe the characteristics of an effective team, the need for different team roles and methods of team interactions, and barriers to team effectiveness in a healthcare setting.

Aged Care and Support in Practice
Perform care and support tasks and clerical duties and work collaboratively in a care team in a healthcare setting.

Pressure Care and Specific Health Conditions
Demonstrate effective communication skills and ability to work and communicate with people in a healthcare setting, and identify opportunities for further personal development and associated action plans.