Course Title: Support independence and wellbeing

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: VE 2020

Class Number: 3576

Class Section: BEN0

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Course Code: HWSS6076C

Course Title: Support independence and wellbeing

Important Information:

This course is delivered and assessed in a cluster with;

• CHCAGE001 - Facilitate the empowerment of older people •CHCMHS001 - Work with people with mental health issues •CHCCCS015 - Provide individualised support

School: 375T Vocational Design and Social Context

Campus: City Campus

Program: C3401 - Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing)

Course Contact: Gwen Cawsey

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4581

Course Contact Email: Gwen.Cawsey@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Nominal Hours: 80

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

None

Course Description

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to provide individualised services in ways that support independence, as well as, physical and emotional wellbeing.

 This unit applies to workers in a range of community services contexts who provide frontline support services within the context of an established individualised plan.


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

CHCCCS023 Support independence and wellbeing

Element:

1. Recognise and support individual differences

Performance Criteria:

1.1 Recognise and respect the person’s social, cultural and spiritual differences

1.2 Avoid imposing own values and attitudes on others and support the person to express their own identity and preferences

1.3 Consider the person’s individual needs, stage of life, development and strengths when engaging in support activities

1.4 Recognise, respect and accommodate the person’s expressions of identity and sexuality as appropriate in the context of their age or stage of life

1.5 Promote and facilitate opportunities for participation in activities that reflect the person’s individual physical, social, cultural and spiritual needs

Element:

2. Promote independence

Performance Criteria:

2.1 Support the person to identify and acknowledge their own strengths and self-care capacity

2.2 Assist the person to identify opportunities to utilise their strengths, while communicating the importance of using available support when required

2.3 Provide information and assistance to the person in order to facilitate access to support services and resources when needed

2.4 Provide support that allows the person to self manage their own service delivery as appropriate

2.5 Encourage the person to build, strengthen and maintain independence

Element:

3. Support physical wellbeing

Performance Criteria:

3.1 Promote and encourage daily living habits that contribute to healthy lifestyle

3.2 Support and assist the person to maintain a safe and healthy environment

3.3 Identify hazards and report according to organisation procedures

3.4 Identify variations in a person’s physical condition and report according to organisation procedures

3.5 Recognise indications that the person’s physical situation is affecting their wellbeing and report according to organisation procedures

3.6 Identify physical health situations beyond scope of own role and report to relevant person

Element:

4. Support social, emotional and psychological wellbeing

Performance Criteria:

4.1 Promote self-esteem and confidence through use of positive and supportive communication

4.2 Contribute to the person’s sense of security through use of safe and predictable routines

4.3 Encourage and facilitate participation in social, cultural, spiritual activities, using existing and potential new networks and as per the person’s preferences

4.4 Identify aspects of supporting a person’s wellbeing outside scope of knowledge, skills and/or job role and seek appropriate support

4.5 Identify variations to a person’s wellbeing and report according to organisation procedures

4.6 Identify any cultural or financial issues impacting on the person’s wellbeing

4.7 Identify the person’s risk and protective factors in relation to mental health

4.8 Recognise and report possible indicators of abuse or neglect and report according to organisation procedures

4.9 Identify situations beyond scope of own role and report to relevant person

Learning Outcomes


On successful completion of this course you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate competency in the above elements. 


Details of Learning Activities

Classes where information is shared through talks and group discussions, and exercises are conducted to apply learning. Time in class, will also be spent working on applied assessment tasks. Note: All learning activities are delivered via remote learning in Semester 2, 2020. 


Teaching Schedule

ession 1  

  • Introduction to this cluster of four units 

  • overview/trends of aged care 

  • Accessing aged care services 

  • home care programs 

Session 2 

  • Short/Long term help at home 

  • Residential Care 

  • Roles and Responsibilities 

  • Individualised care plans and progress notes with examples of filled out progress notes 

  • physical and social enablers and disablers with examples of both 

  • Reablement strategies looking at mental 

Session 3 

  • Funding 

  • Mental Health 

  • Stigma around mental health services 

  • Introduction to the unit 

  • Physical/Psychological Needs 

  • Spiritual/Cultural/Sexual Needs 

Session 4 

  • Support 

  • Agencies and professionals 

  • Considerations when making referrals 

  • Identity-expression of personal identity 

  • Sexual expression - barriers and support needs in the elderly 

  • LGBTI residents - discuss individual differences socially and culturally 

  • spiritual differences 

Session 5 

  • apply a strengths-based approach 

  • apply consumer-directed care 

  • Intro to unit with role of the PCA 

  • Legal/ethical requirements 

  • Mental health Law and Human Rights that residents have 

  • Complaints ad Elder Abuse 

Session 6 

  • apply a palliative approach 

  • apply knowledge of empowerment and disempowerment 

  • apply a rights-based approach 

  • Factors affecting Health and wellbeing such as mental health - depression and anxiety with the risk factors involved 

  • Healthy Lifestyle Strategies- safe environments, OH&S, and identifying hazards 

Session 7 

  • apply knowledge of self-actualisation 

  • apply recovery-oriented mental health practice 

  • apply knowledge of social justice and inclusion 

  • Human lifespan and the process of ageing 

Session 8 

  • Identifying aspects of individualised plans to review and how to involve the residents in this 

  • Documentation required 

  • Developing skills  

  • What  support activites are - support and aims of individualised activities 

  • Communication activities 

  • Risks and Crisis 

 


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts


References


Other Resources

The University Library has extensive resources and provides subject specialist expertise, research advice, help with referencing and support through: 
The learning Lab 
www.rmit.edu.au/students/study-support/learning-lab 
The Study Support Hub 
https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/study-support/study-support-hub 
English for uni workshops 
https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/study-support/workshops/english-uni-workshops 


Overview of Assessment

Assessments will include a combination of tasks including knowledge questions and case study analysis.


Assessment Tasks

Assessment task 1 This assessment task allows you to demonstrate your knowledge required to: Organise, provide and monitor support services within the limits established by an individualised plan 

Respond to the goals and aspirations of older people and provide support services in a manner that focuses on improving health outcomes and quality of life, using a person-centred approach 

 

Assessment task 2 This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to organise, provide and monitor support services within the limits established by an individualised plan. 

 

Assessment task 3 This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to provide individualised services in ways that support independence, as well as, physical and emotional wellbeing. 

 

Assessment task 4 This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to assist 3 aged care residents to carry out a desired activity that meets their goals and aspirations, as identified in their individualised care plan. 

 

Assessment task 5 This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to establish relationships, clarify needs, and then work collaboratively with people who are living with mental health issues. 

 

Assessment task 6 This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to establish relationships, clarify needs, and then work collaboratively with people who are living with mental health issues. 

 

Assessment task 7 This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to assess capacity to support people with co-existing mental health and alcohol and other drugs issues and to work collaboratively to provide support and facilitate links to other services. 

 

Assessment task 8 This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate that you have provided 120 hours of direct support work in line with the principles of independence and wellbeing in their aged care facility. You will have to provide documentary evidence of the completed hours. 

 


Assessment Matrix

The assessment matrix demonstrates alignment of assessment tasks with the relevant unit of competency. 

 The assessment matrix is located in Canvas, at the end of each assessment task. 

Other Information

Please refer to the RMIT student page for extensive information about study support, assessment, extensions, appeals and a range of other matters: rmit.edu.au/students 

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