Certificate of Occupational Therapy Assistance

Unit 1 – Assist with movement

• Requirements to assist a person with movement
• Risk factors / assessment
• Assessment of patient care environment
• Risks for workers
• Postural positions and repetitive movements
• Safe workplaces
• Preparing and adjusting equipment
• Equipment used to assist clients with movement
• Client handling devices
• Preparing the environment
• Consent and client cooperation
• Cultural considerations
• Preparation procedures
• Infection hazards
• Reporting diseases to relevant health authorities
• No lifting policies
• Safe working practices
• Lift equipment
• Body structure
• Spinal cord, discs and nerves
• Vertebral column
• Back muscle structure
• Principles of body mechanics
• Using a mechanical lifter
• One to one transfers
• Chair to toilet
• Wheelchair to chair/toilet
• Comfort and safety
• Skin damage
• Explanation and communication
• Using words client can understand
• Equipment cleaning and faults
• Returning equipment

Unit 2 – Support independence and wellbeing

• Respecting differences
• Cultural expectations and groups
• Differences between people and culture
• Respect and cultural diversity
• Buddhism and Hinduism
• Islam and key festivals
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• Conflicting values
• Sexuality and identity
• Client rights
• Needs, development and strengths
• Decision making
• Increased participation for persons with a disability
• Actively listening to clients
• Community presence
• Work and normal living conditions
• Employment for people with disabilities
• Normal conditions of everyday life
• Expressions of identity and sexuality
• Intellectual or psychiatric disabilities
• Promoting / facilitating social activities
• Identifying strengths and self-care
• Clients directing their own care
• Using available support
• Access to services
• Primary and secondary sources
• Records management
• Signs of providing inaccurate obsolete or irrelevant information
• Legislation and code of conduct
• Difficulties meeting client needs
• Maintaining independence
• Recognition of client’s skills and competence
• Health and emotional well being
• Daily living habits
• Support and developing a communication plan
• Identifying and reporting hazards
• Aids from independent living centres
• Variations to clients’ physical conditions
• Weight loss and causes
• Weight gain and changed to skin tone
• Sleep patterns
• The Abbey Pain Scale
• Aches and pains
• Goals and action plans
• Client referrals and support
• Risk management
• Emotional and psychological needs
• Self-esteem, confidence and security
• Erikson’s eight stages
• Disability legislation
• Social and cultural festivals
• Support for wellbeing
• Reporting abuse and neglect
• Depression
• Domestic violence

Unit 3 – Assist with an allied health program

• Privacy and confidentiality
• Providing accurate information to clients
• Therapy treatment plans
• Physiotherapists, dieticians, podiatrists
• Speech pathologists and chiropractors
• Audiologists
• Structures and philosophies of organisation
• Equipment needed for therapy program
• Prepare client for therapy
• Therapy procedural requirements
• Common law, duty of care
• Assist with therapy tasks
• Action plans
• Ensure the comfort safety and privacy of clients
• Reinforce, clarify and explain therapy goals
• Support clients to achieve goals
• Follow up
• Dal with accidents and incidents appropriately
• Health and safety – issue resolution flow chart
• Use equipment safely
• Pass on document information
• Regulations and legislation
• Designing simple therapy materials and equipment
• Identify gaps in therapy materials
• Develop solutions
• Construct aids and adaptations
• Maintain stock levels
• Book client appointments
• Planning provision of services
• Involving the client
• Determinants of health
• Client-centred approach
• Decisions involving minors
• Clients who do not have capacity to make decisions
• Involving client in decision-making
• Promoting good health
• Surveys, questionnaires, interviews and feedback
• Access and equity in health services
• Evidence based individual decision-making

Unit 4 – Assist with the development and maintenance of client functional status

• Daily living skills program
• Informing client
• Consulting allied health professionals
• Program requirements and outcomes
• Functional assessment tools (screening)
• Client requirements and suitability of services
• Client care plans
• Occupational therapy
• Physiotherapy, hydrotherapy
• Recording appointments and using electronic appointment systems
• Cultural diversity and spiritual issues
• Religious affiliations
• Assessing living conditions
• Risk and safety issues
• Rate potential severity
• Hierarchy of control
• Identify client skills and abilities
• Improving client skills and abilities
• Life domains and client goals
• Skills development opportunities
• Positive expectations
• Maslow’s theory
• Empowering clients
• Prioritising needs
• Referrals
• Tools, strategies and goal setting
• Clients strengths and goals and abilities
• Equipment and materials required
• Mobility devices, aids and adaptations
• Equipment safety checks
• Supporting client to carry out activities
• Supporting client to be involved and confident
• Principles and practices of active support
• Respect and encouragement
• Providing choices
• Communicating with client’s family
• Risk management
• Progress reports
• Constructive feedback to client
• Pain management and assessment
• Health and safety legislation and flow chart
• Performance indicators and review
• Evaluation of participation
• Progress and outcomes
• Cause and effect diagram
• Independence
• Adapting environment
• Client strengths
• Physical self-care
• Promoting independence
• Emergencies and client difficulties
• Duty of care
• Reporting client injuries or difficulties
• Clinical supervision
• Supervisory relationships
• Equipment maintenance and cleaning
• Feeding techniques
• Infection control
• Policies and procedures
• Equipment maintenance, storage and stock levels
• Documenting program
• AHA terminology

Unit 5 – Assist with managing WHS implications of return to work

• Identify return-to-work requirements
• Legislative requirements for return to work
• Facilitating an injured worker returning to work
• Worker’s compensation schemes
• Rights, roles, duties and responsibilities (worker, schemes and employer)
• Employer’s responsibilities
• Injured workers supervisor’s responsibilities
• Return to work coordinator’s responsibilities
• Insurer’s roles, rights and responsibilities
• Health providers duties and responsibilities
• Injury management coordinator’s duties and responsibilities
• Organisational requirements for return to work
• Assist and preparing for injured worker to return to work
• Identify suitable return-to-work duties
• Involving all parties to confirm duties
• Identifying barriers to a worker returning to work
• Preparing and designing a return to work program
• Identify and manage health and safety risks to other team members
• Establish a return to work agreement
• Other information to include in agreement
• Assist with implementing return to work
• Identify hazards in the work environment for injured worker
• Risk management
• Changes and modifications to work environment
• Consulting with rehabilitation coordinator
• Monitor and evaluating return to work
• Gather feedback from all parties
• Facilitate communication between parties
• Monitor return to work plan
• Identify and address any non-compliance
• Address any hazards
• Hierarchy of controls model
• Evaluate program
• Evaluate case manager’s and rehab providers performance
• Were the organisations policies and procedures effective?