Micro-credential Overview
This Micro-credential is designed to recognise the skills and knowledge required to identify early physical health problems in people with mental health challenges or addiction issues and support them to access primary care and/or navigate life choices.
A support worker who completes this Micro-credential will be able to recognise signs of physical problems and carry out specific tasks within the support worker role while supporting a person with an existing or co-existing mental health challenge or addiction issue.
Graduates will be able to:
- Understand NZ statistics for physical health inequities.
- Identify physical health inequities for Māori, other ethnicities, rainbow, disabled, older people, and rural people.
- Understand impacts and barriers arising from factors which contribute to physical health inequities.
- Recognise diagnostic overshadowing in NZ.
- Identify characteristics, symptoms, indicators requiring a response for common physical health conditions.
- Understand barriers and options to support a person.
- Identify the scope of responsibility for the support worker role.
- Know when and how to escalate or obtain extra input when outside of role scope.
- Develop and use a wellbeing plan.
- Use tools and strategies to support someone’s physical health issues for people experiencing mental health challenges or addiction issues.
- Support a person to develop and implement a wellbeing plan.
Prerequisites
Learners need to be working in a relevant sector. Learners are also required to have reasonable computer literacy as micro-credential assessments are only offered online (via Aka Toi).
Learning and Assessment Resources
Learning and assessments will be completed via Careerforce’s online learning platform, Aka Toi
Download Micro-credential brochure