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HLT40307: Certificate IV in Massage Therapy Practice

This section contains a the Employability Skills Summary for this qualification.

Communication

  • Listening to and understanding client information, medical reports and feedback
  • Speaking clearly/directly to relay information
  • Reading and interpreting workplace related documentation, such as safety requirements, work instructions where relevant, professional information
  • Writing to address audience needs, such as work notes, reports and referrals
  • Interpreting the needs of internal/ external customers from clear information
  • Applying numeracy skills to workplace requirements involving measuring
  • Establishing and using networks
  • Sharing information (eg. with other staff where appropriate and clients)
  • Negotiating responsively (eg. re own work role and/or conditions, with clients)
  • Persuading effectively
  • Being appropriately assertive (eg. in relation to safe or ethical work practices and own work and scope)
  • Empathising (eg. in relation to others)

Teamwork

  • Working as an individual and a team member (where relevant)
  • Working with diverse individuals and groups
  • Applying knowledge of own role as part of a team (eg. wider health care team where relevant/appropriate)
  • Applying teamwork skills to a range of situations (where relevant)
  • Identifying and utilising the strengths of other team members (eg. wider health care team where relevant/appropriate)
  • Giving feedback

Problem Solving

  • Developing practical and creative solutions to workplace problems (ie. within scope of own role)
  • Showing independence and initiative in identifying problems (ie. within scope of own role)
  • Solving problems individually or in teams (ie. within scope of own role)
  • Applying a range of strategies in problem solving
  • Using numeracy skills to solve problems (eg. time management, stock management, calculations of remedies if appropriate)
  • Testing assumptions and taking context into account (ie. with an awareness of assumptions made and work context)
  • Listening to and resolving concerns in relation to workplace issues
  • Resolving customer concerns relative to workplace responsibilities

Initiative and Enterprise

  • Adapting to new situations (ie. within scope of own role)
  • Being creative in response to workplace challenges
  • Identifying opportunities that might not be obvious to others
  • Generating a range of options in response to workplace matters
  • Translating ideas into action (ie. within scope of own role)
  • Developing innovative solutions
  • Developing a strategic, creative, long-term vision

Planning and Organising

  • Collecting, analysing and organising information
  • Using basic systems for planning and organising
  • Being appropriately resourceful
  • Taking initiative and making decisions within workplace role (ie. within authorised limits)
  • Participating in continuous improvement and planning processes
  • Working within or establishing clear work goals and deliverables
  • Determining or applying required resources
  • Allocating people and other resources to tasks and workplace requirements (where relevant)
  • Managing time and priorities
  • Adapting resource allocations to cope with contingencies (where relevant)

Self-management

  • Being self-motivated
  • Articulating own ideas
  • Balancing own ideas and values with workplace values and requirements
  • Monitoring and evaluating own performance
  • Taking responsibility at the appropriate level

Learning

  • Being open to learning new ideas and techniques )
  • Learning in a range of settings including informal learning
  • Participating in ongoing learning
  • Learning in order to accommodate change
  • Learning new skills and techniques
  • Taking responsibility for own learning
  • Contributing to the learning of others (eg. by sharing information)
  • Applying a range of learning approaches
  • Participating in developing own learning plans (including professional development)

Technology

  • Using technology and related workplace equipment (where relevant)
  • Using basic technology skills to organise data (where relevant)
  • Adapting to new technology skill requirements (where relevant)
  • Applying OHS knowledge when using technology
  • Applying technology as a management tool (where relevant)