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CHCAGE009_Provide services for older people_Consultation Draft 1
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UNIT CODE
CHCAGE009
UNIT TITLE
Provide services for older people
APPLICATION
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge to provide services to an older person and to support their family and carer. It involves following and contributing to an established individualised plan.
This unit applies to workers in a residential or community context, or those in personal care or support services that work with older people. Work performed requires some discretion and judgement and is carried out under regular direct or indirect supervision.
The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian standards and industry codes of practice.
No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
PREREQUISITE UNIT
Nil
COMPETENCY FIELD
UNIT SECTOR
Aged Care
ELEMENTS
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
Elements describe the essential outcomes
Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.
Expansion to Include Sexual Abuse
"Positive to see 1.3 “Identify and support the person’s use of assistive technologies in meeting their individual needs” and 1.5 “Recognise signs consistent with financial, physical or emotional abuse or neglect of the older person and report according to organisational policies and procedures.” This must be expanded to include sexual abuse. The Prevalence Study for a Serious Incident Report Scheme (KPMG) estimated 1730 incidents of sexual assault nationally in residential aged care with 58% of staff stating that the sexual assault had no visible impact on the victim. If we do not educate potential workers about recognising the signs of sexual abuse, you continue to perpetuate the myth that older people are not a sexual being and that sexual assault does not have the same impact on older people. However, there is nothing in this core unit about social and emotional connection and taking a rights-based approach, which have been highlighted as key areas of need/improvement in the Aged Care Royal Commission. "
Samantha Edmonds 12.03.2021 01.02PM
FOUNDATION SKILLS
Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the Performance Criteria of this unit of competency.
UNIT MAPPING INFORMATION
CHCAGE003 Coordinate services for older people.
LINKS
Companion Volume Implementation Guide
TITLE
Assessment Requirements for CHCAGE009 Provide services for older people
PERFORMANCE EVIDENCE
Evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit in the context of the job role, and:
KNOWLEDGE EVIDENCE
Demonstrated knowledge required to complete the tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit:
Privacy and confidentiality, and shared care
"The “Knowledge evidence” portion of the draft unit covers: “Legal and ethical considerations and organisational policies and procedures for working with older people, including: duty of care; dignity of risk; human rights; privacy, confidentiality and disclosure; work health and safety.” We suggest that a specific addition of privacy and confidentiality around a person’s HIV or BBV status must be covered in this unit. This is particularly the case considering the section addressing families and carers, where a person living with HIV’s family and/or carer may not know about their HIV status, thus confidentiality must be maintained at all times, even when a personal care worker may otherwise assume that there is no risk of breach of confidentiality. A further area of knowledge evidence should involve the transition of people in residential aged care facilities to and from acute care facilities and/or palliative care, ensuring continuity of care, privacy and confidentiality, and appropriate shared care arrangements are maintained."
Liz Sutherland 04.03.2021 01.43PM
ASSESSMENT CONDITIONS
Skills must have been demonstrated in an ageing support workplace, with the addition of simulations and scenarios where the full range of contexts and situations have not been provided in the workplace.
These are situations relating to emergency or unplanned procedures where assessment in these circumstances would be unsafe, impractical or threatens the dignity of the older person.
Assessment must ensure access to:
Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors.