Allied Health Assistance

This qualification reflects the role of workers who provide therapeutic and application related service to allied health professionals. The worker is required to run therapeutic and program related tasks under the guidance of an allied health professional. Supervision can 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 professional. The worker could be engaged to operate at a specialty area or work generically across the organisation in delivery of allied health assistance services. The worker, in combination with the allied health professional, may have responsibility for supervising other allied health aid employees. To achieve this qualification, the candidate will need to have completed at least 120 hours of work as detailed in the Assessment Prerequisites of those units of competency.No certification, legislative, and regulatory or certification requirements apply to this eligibility at the time of publication.