This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to promote healthy and safe exercise and movement habits and to assist clients to set movement and exercise-related goals to improve health and wellbeing.
It requires the ability to use clients’ medical and health history to identify risks and contraindications to movement and to work with clients to identify individual barriers to movement and to devise and implement strategies to overcome such barriers. It also requires the ability to identify when it is appropriate to refer clients to other health and/or allied health professionals to achieve their health goals.
The unit applies to individuals working directly with clients in the capacity of a health coach to empower them to take control of their health and wellbeing. The skills in this unit must applied within the individual’s own role responsibilities and limitations.
Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.
Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.
This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.