Elements and Performance Criteria

RANGE STATEMENT

The Range Statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Add any essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts.


Strategies to address land care issues will vary between communities and may include:
Ensuring that excessive vegetation growth around sewerage lagoons and in other areas of the community is controlled and maintained
Planting and maintaining fruit and shade trees in the house yard and community
Erecting shelters for shade in places where groups of people tend to gather for meetings or ceremonies
Obtaining, planting, and maintaining bush medicine in the community, near the clinic etc.
Planting and maintaining trees and shrubs to act as wind breaks against dust in the house yard, general community and outlying areas
Developing the yard area to reduce the impact of overcrowding and problems with wind blown dust
Planting and maintaining appropriate trees around septic tanks to prevent cars from driving over them and collapsing drains or breaking lids


Organisation may include:
Community council
Community clinic
Other employer bodies/agencies


Relevant others may include:
Environmental Health Officers
Aboriginal Health Workers
Other clinic workers
School children
Other community workers, e.g. horticultural workers, community development workers
Elders and traditional owners


Priorities may be in relation to:
Perceived needs in the community, and issues of importance
Availability of resources and/or funding requirements, etc.


A plan of action to address land care issues may include but is not limited to:
The most appropriate and cost-effective way to control dust problems in the general community, e.g. using gravel from creek beds to place around traffic areas in the community such as the front of the clinic, community council, store; blocking off bush tracks with rocks, old tyres, 44 gallon drums, etc.
Strategies to develop the house yard and/or living areas e.g. wind breaks, fence construction or repair, dust sheltering plants, mounding to protect fencing from cars, etc.
The types of fruit and shade trees appropriate to the region, what people want to have planted, and where
Involving school children in tree planting activities so that they feel a sense of ownership
Identifying appropriate trees to plant around septic systems, and strategies to prevent people from driving over the top of septic systems while the trees are becoming established e.g. signage, fencing, mounds, education, etc.
Managing land care projects ie: identifying community needs, resource requirements, action to be taken, etc.


Key people and outside agencies may include:
Environmental Health Officers
Greening Australia
Aboriginal Health Workers
Other land care agencies
Other community workers e.g. horticultural trainees and/or graduates, community development workers


Resource requirements may include but are not limited to:
Gravel from creek beds if applicable
44 gallon drums
Rocks
Old tyres
Appropriate plants, shrubs and trees needed for specific purposes
Fencing resources e.g. post driver, post hole borer, wire strainers, fencing pliers, fencing wire, knots for use in joining fence wire
Resources for land care activities, e.g. pick, shovel, drip irrigation system etc.
Availability of water sources, e.g. billabongs, bores etc.
Funding issues in relation to projects


Success of the plan may refer to:
Objectives being met in accordance with the plan
Limited obstacles, e.g. very little need for the IEHW to intervene in relation to specific issues or problems
Improvement in the over all health of individuals and community members
Community support and empowerment in relation to the plan of action implemented
Community support and empowerment in relation to assisting with ongoing maintenance e.g. watering plants as required, maintaining drip systems etc.


Strategies for improvement may include:
Education/health promotion
Developing additional strategies to involve school children in on going maintenance activities
Identifying sources of additional funding for future land care activities/projects


Feedback may be:
Verbally in either first language or English depending on the target group and whether or not the feed back provided takes place internally within the community or outside the community to relevant others
Written correspondence, e.g. faxes, letters, etc.
Photos of land care activities/projects
Video recording land care activities/projects

EVIDENCE GUIDE

The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the Performance Criteria, Required Skills and Knowledge, the Range Statement and the Assessment Guidelines for this Training Package.

Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate this competency unit:
The individual being assessed must provide evidence of specified essential knowledge as well as skills
Collaborative approach from the organisation, community, indigenous environmental health worker, key people, outside agencies and relevant others in order to implement the plan effectively
Competency must be assessed in relation to the land care strategies that the community has chosen to be implemented as part of the plan
Assessment of performance must be in relation to the strategies relevant to the worker's particular job role
Evidence is to be collected across a range of events over a period of time to ensure identified situational variables are consistently achieved


Access and equity considerations:
All workers in the health industry should be aware of access and equity issues in relation to their own area of work
All workers should develop their ability to work in a culturally diverse environment
In recognition of particular health issues facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, workers should be aware of cultural, historical and current issues impacting on health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Assessors and trainers must take into account relevant access and equity issues, in particular relating to factors impacting on health of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients and communities


Context of and specific resources for assessment:
This unit is best assessed on the job
Access required to:
equipment/materials in accordance with the strategy(s) to be implemented and job role (to assess competency in implementing land care strategies)
a phone/ fax (to assess competency in providing feedback to relevant others outside the community either verbally or by written response)