enHealth environmental health officer skills and knowledge matrix (2009)

Description

The environmental health officers skills and knowledge matrix was developed as a foundation for a national approach to managing environmental health workforce issues. Included is a section relevant to Indigenous environmental health practitioners.

The following key issues were considered in the production of the matrix:

• a description of the whole environmental health officer (EHO) role, not a specific EHO job
• a statement of common EHO skills and knowledge
• a statement of a minimum level EHO skills and knowledge to perform the role competently
• a statement of skills and knowledge required regardless of whether this is attained through formal education, training and/or experience
• a description of skills and knowledge directly related to the environmental health role
• support for emerging roles based on reported developments in the field
• sufficient detail to underpin the design of assessment processes
  

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

Links

• View report: enHealth environmental health officer skills and knowledge matrix
• View report: enHealth environmental health officer skills and knowledge matrix (PDF - 1.0 MB)
• View website: Department of Health and Ageing

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