Prerequisites

There are no formal prerequisites for this qualification.

This course is offered to clients who:

• Candidates who are working in the industry and want to update their knowledge and skills and gain a formal qualification.
• Candidates who are working in the industry and have the part qualification and wish to gain the full qualification.

Characteristics: A higher percentage of candidates being in the age ranges of 20 to 50-year-old. Predominately students will be fluent in the English language

Motivation: Key motivations are the desire to achieve recognised qualifications in the community services industry

Pre- Enrolment Interview

AUSCHS aims to provide services that build on a student’s existing abilities and develop new ones. The individuals’ existing educational and vocational attainment, other demonstrated capabilities, career aspirations, and general interests are considered in course selection.

A Pre- Enrolment interview will be used to determine whether this qualification is the most suitable training option for the student and identify any competencies previously acquired that may be used as credit transfer or Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

The Pre- Enrolment Interview will seek to gain an indication of the student’s preferred learning style, as well as their language, literacy and numeracy skills levels to determine if additional support will be needed to enable the student to complete the qualification

Physical requirements:

While AUSCHS will work with you to make “reasonable adjustments” in the simulation lab and classroom, there are workplace practice conditions that occur in the workplace environment that are beyond AUSCHS ’s control.

The physical requirements below are necessary to function in the healthcare facility and/or community setting. Students must be able to perform and complete course objectives and requirements with or without reasonable adjustments. Our courses cater to a range of candidates. The candidates are required to be physically fit to manage tasks.

Skills and abilities that are needed to perform client care to pass the course objectives and requirements are:

• Strength: Sufficient to assist with lifting and transferring a client, and perform CPR
• Mobility: Sufficient mobility to bend, stoop, and bend down to the floor; ability to move around rapidly; and to move in small, confined areas.
• Hearing: Sufficient to hear through the stethoscope to discriminate sounds; to hear cries for help; to hear alarms on equipment and emergency signals; and various overhead pages.
• Vision: Sufficient to make physical assessments of clients and equipment.
• Communication: Able to communicate in both verbal and written formats; and interact with clients, staff, and faculty supervisors.

If you have a disability or disorder or on any longer medications that will require reasonable adjustments to fulfill these requirements, then please declare in your course application.

Reasonable Adjustment

Reasonable adjustment is the process of adjusting our intended methods of learning and assessment to accommodate the unique requirements of our clients yet remaining within the constraints of the training package whilst still applying the principles of assessment.

The following processes will be applied for students

• Learning and assessment materials are written in plain English.
• Delivery methods are negotiated to meet the needs of a diverse range of learners.
• Entry to courses is in accordance with equal opportunity legislation, anti-discrimination legislation.

Reasonable Adjustment is a key strategy in achieving this outcome. Adjustments are made to the learning environment to ensure equal opportunity without imposing unjustifiable hardship on the Australian College of Higher Studies or compromising the integrity of the Qualification Standards.

Reasonable Adjustment should be catered for without compromising assessment conditions. For example, the Trainer/Assessor should withdraw from assessment to protect privacy, confidentiality and potentially company security concerns. In this instance, Reasonable Adjustment needs to be applied i.e. using a different form of Assessment or a simulated environment.

We are committed to assisting all of our clients where within our capacity to complete the course. To ensure we understand where we can assist we ask our students to self-identify any areas that we can assist them in. Our options and approach to English language literacy have been raised earlier.

Obviously, the trainer/assessor can make their own observations as to how they can modify our assessment process to meet the needs of our students. In the case of this course, possible areas of Reasonable Adjustment include: Shorter more frequent sessions for people with attention issues, the use of colour paper or tinted transparencies to assist those with dyslexia. In general, the student will know what form of reasonable adjustment suits their needs address these options with the student but ensure the needs of the Training Package are met, any requests for Reasonable Adjustment that cannot immediately be accommodated should be discussed with the CEO, and where we cannot accommodate the request, we will refer the Student onto a suitable organisation.

The RTO has incorporated a separate comment section for Reasonable Adjustments into each form of Assessment and in all of its assessment tools, or reasonable adjustments can be made as notes in the general comment sections.