NZ Certificate in Health and Wellbeing (Advanced Care and Support) (Level 4)

Summary

The aim of this programme is to provide people who have experience in a health or wellbeing environment with the skills, knowledge and attributes required to provide advanced person-centred support to those with complex needs, and to their family/whanau, and to take a leadership role in the healthcare workplace, particularly in the aged care field. The learning gained within this programme is transferred into work practice, with a supervised work placement in a New Zealand healthcare organisation.

What You Will Learn

Communication and Engagement in Healthcare

• Use effective communication methods in accordance with organisational requirements
• Communicate in a culturally appropriate way
• Reflect on person/relationship centered communication approaches

Cultural Perspectives in Aotearoa/New Zealand

• Develop awareness of diverse cultural perspective in a health and wellbeing context in Aotearoa/New Zealand
• Raise awareness of culturally appropriate strategies in the workplace

Professional Collaboration

• Identify, apply, and assess the success of effective teamwork in a health and wellbeing context
• Recognise and respect expertise indifferent client care roles
• Facilitate professional collaboration to achieve positive health outcomes
• Contribute to workplace environments to improve client outcomes

Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace

• Experience healthcare and wellbeing in the workplace
• Work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team
• Demonstrate leadership skills, as a healthcare worker, in the workplace
• Reflect on the workplace experience

Safe Practices in Health and Wellbeing

• Develop analytical thinking skills
• Develop awareness chronic terminal and life-threatening conditions
• Implement safe practices in the context of health and wellbeing

Clinical Care

• Prepare, write, and implement healthcare and wellbeing documentation
• Collaborate with multi-discipline teams to ascertain the clinical requirements for a person with complex needs
• Develop written and oral communication skills

Applied Leadership Skills

• Observe leadership skills in a health and wellbeing environment
• Discern the leadership skills that create cohesive teams to benefit a person, and their whanau, with complex needs
• Reflect on leadership skills in a health and wellbeing environment