HLTAHPR006Provide healthy lifestyle information

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What an assessment for HLTAHPR006 must cover

29 assessable components: 3 elements (11 performance criteria), 2 performance evidence and 12 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 4 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Identify authoritative healthy lifestyle information.

  • 1.1Source information about healthy eating and physical activity from the national dietary and physical activity guidelines that apply to healthy people at different stages of life.
  • 1.2Interpret key recommendations and messages to inform the provision of healthy lifestyle advice.

2 Provide information to clients.

  • 2.1Identify and use opportunities to provide information and resources about healthy lifestyle practices during day-to-day provision of health services.
  • 2.2Communicate in culturally appropriate and safe ways with clients, using plain language.
  • 2.3Provide information consistent with national guidelines to help clients make informed choices.
  • 2.4Advise on recommended daily serves of the five food groups outlined in national dietary guidelines.
  • 2.5Provide clear information about discretionary foods and inform clients about limiting daily intake.
  • 2.6Advise on recommended weekly levels of physical activity outlined in national guidelines according to client age.
  • 2.7Explain the benefits of healthy food, beverage and exercise choices and impact of poor choices on health and wellbeing.

3 Identify and support clients with specific needs.

  • 3.1Identify clients who require healthy lifestyle advice beyond own limitations and recognise risks of providing information to those clients.
  • 3.2Refer clients with specific nutritional and other needs to health professionals and support services with required expertise according to organisational procedures.

Performance evidence

  • provide healthy lifestyle information to three different Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients including: a child over the age of 5, an adult, an older person
  • provide the following information to each client, tailored to their individual needs: healthy eating information from the Australian national dietary guidelines including: the five food groups and their recommended proportional daily intakes, discretionary foods that should be eaten only sometimes and in small amounts; recommendations for physical activity based on the Australian national physical activity guidelines; one available support service and how to access the support service.

Knowledge evidence

  • organisational procedures for referral
  • role and limitations of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health workers and practitioners in providing nutritional and physical activity information and advice to clients
  • roles of medical and allied health professionals in providing nutritional and physical activity advice and their expertise in addressing different needs: medical practitioners, registered nurses and midwives, accredited practising dietitians, exercise physiologists
  • nutritional and physical activity support services available in the community, state or territory
  • physical activity groups operating in the local community
  • how nutritional and physical activity needs differ for special population clients, and characteristics of clients with specific nutritional and physical activity needs who may require referral for specialist advice: those with: chronic conditions, oral health problems, physical injuries and disabilities, the frail elderly, pregnant and breastfeeding women, infants; clients who show signs of: having an eating disorder, malnutrition, obesity
  • risks to clients of providing inappropriate nutrition-related advice: nutrient deficiencies and imbalances, negative impact on existing health conditions, food intolerance and allergy adverse reactions, negative food-drug interactions, nutrition confusion
  • key contents of current Australian national dietary guidelines and associated resources: the principal recommendations and guidelines, characteristics and examples of types of food in the five groups, proportions of the five food groups recommended for consumption each day, characteristics and examples of discretionary foods to be avoided
  • food that is specific to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people: food values in traditional Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander food, cultural values and beliefs about food
  • benefits of healthy eating and of physical activity, and relationship to physical and emotional wellbeing
  • potential impacts of unhealthy food choices and eating patterns on general health and wellbeing and: diet-related risk factors for chronic conditions, including high cholesterol, high blood pressure and obesity; risk of chronic diseases including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some types of cancers; risk of malnutrition
  • recommendations for weekly physical activity from the current Australian national physical activity guidelines: movement guidelines for the early years, children and young people; physical activity guidelines for adults; physical activity guidelines for older people.

Foundation skills

  • Reading skills: extract and understand routine information from national guideline documentation and key overarching recommendations.
  • Oral communication skills: ask open and closed probe questions and actively listen to determine client understanding of information.
  • Numeracy skills: comprehend numerical aspects of the national dietary guidelines including food intake expressed in proportions.
  • Learning skills: use information provided in national guidelines to update and extend knowledge of healthy lifestyle practices.

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What does an assessment tool for HLTAHPR006 need to cover?

To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for HLTAHPR006 needs to address all 29 unit components: 3 elements with 11 performance criteria, 2 performance evidence requirements, 12 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.

How does Auditori generate an assessment tool for HLTAHPR006?

Auditori pulls the current release of HLTAHPR006 from training.gov.au and generates a complete package: candidate assessment, assessor guide with model answers and observation criteria, and a coverage matrix mapping every component. A suitably qualified person then reviews and approves the draft in a built-in workflow — consistent with ASQA's guidance on AI use in VET — before export as branded PDF and editable Word.

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