4419 Other Health Support Workers
4419 Other Health Support Workers
This unit group covers Health Support Workers not elsewhere classified. It includes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Audiometrists.
OSCA skill level
The occupations in this unit group have a skill level corresponding to the qualifications and experience below.
- Skill Level 2: AQF Associate Degree, Advanced Diploma, Diploma, or at least three years of relevant experience
- Skill Level 3: AQF Certificate III including at least two years of on-the-job training, AQF Certificate IV, or at least three years of relevant experience
- Skill Level 4: AQF Certificate II, AQF Certificate III, or at least one year of relevant experience
441931 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner
Provides culturally safe health care and clinical services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and advises members of health care teams on the cultural needs of clients.
Registration or licensing is required.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers are excluded from this occupation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers are included in Occupation 441932 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker.
Skill level: 3
Main tasks
- Ensures members of health care teams are aware of clients' cultural needs when discussing treatment options, including relaying the importance of clients' connections to community and country
- Provides operational leadership to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers
- Facilitates and participates in outreach health services
- Completes comprehensive health assessments, including assessments for people presenting with chronic or communicable disease and acute conditions
- Undertakes screening and triage activities
- Develops, implements and supports self-management health programs
- Provides primary health care to clients
- Explains the purpose, benefits and risks of treatments to clients and their families in a culturally safe way
- Prepares medications, collects blood samples, and administers diagnostic tests, vaccinations and first aid
441932 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker
Promotes community health through implementing culturally safe educational programs and assisting outreach health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners are excluded from this occupation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners are included in Occupation 441931 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner.
Skill level: 4
Main tasks
- Supports or undertakes health assessments
- Implements community health education initiatives
- Develops and evaluates primary health care programs for clients
- Maintains clients' health records
- Supports clients' awareness of, and participation in, necessary health care
- Participates in outreach health services
- Provides cultural education to Health Professionals who are not of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background
441933 Audiometrist
Assesses hearing and auditory function, and provides rehabilitation for children and adults in a variety of health care settings.
Skill level: 2
Main tasks
- Assesses and diagnoses client hearing loss using a wide range of techniques, including audiometric tests
- Reports results of assessments and tests in writing, and makes referrals to other Medical Practitioners
- Recommends options to those with hearing impairment, including tinnitus, fits non-implantable devices, hearing aids and other remote sensing systems, and provides aural rehabilitation programs
- Provides information and advice to clients and their families about hearing loss management and rehabilitation