Allied Health Assistance

This qualification reflects the function of workers who provide therapeutic and program related support to allied health professionals. The worker is required to conduct program and therapeutic related tasks under the guidance of an allied health professional. Supervision may be direct, indirect or remote and must occur within organisation requirements. The worker is required to identify client circumstances that need additional input from the allied health practitioner. The worker might be engaged to work at a specialty area or work generically across the organisation in delivery of allied health assistance services. The worker, in conjunction with the allied healthcare, could have responsibility for supervising other allied health aid employees. To achieve this qualification, the candidate must have completed at least 120 hours of are detailed in the Assessment Requirements of those units of competency.No certification, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements apply to the qualification at the time of publication.