Common use of Allied Health Clause in Contracts

Allied Health. The allied health professions each have a distinct, specialised body of knowledge and skills, and actively work with people accessing health and disability services across a range of settings. In their practice, allied health professionals provide services and engage in activities that may include: prevention, assessment/evaluation, identification/diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation/habilitation, promotion of health and well being, education, research and health services management. To be part of the allied health professional workforce, health professionals must be: a) Involved in direct patient contact providing patient treatment, intervention or assistance, assessment, patient management and education, working in primary, secondary and tertiary care settings; b) Tertiary trained undertaking recognised university degrees at undergraduate and/or graduate entry level; c) Required to obtain specific qualifications to either obtain (or be eligible for) professional registration to practice, or to join the relevant professional association and have a specific professional qualification recognised by NZQA; d) Allied to each other and the medical, nursing/midwifery and technical/scientific professions, working together as part of multidisciplinary or inter-professional teams to achieve best practice outcomes for the client across the primary, secondary and tertiary health sectors; and e) ‘Allied’ with clients, the client’s family/whanau and other carers, and with the community in order to achieve best outcomes for the client. The parties recognise that historically, allied health professions have not always required a university degree as an entry point to the profession. This coverage clause is not intended to exclude employees who: a) do not hold a university degree but who have achieved registration with their regulatory authority; or b) hold a position for which the current requirement is to have a university degree and/or registration but who does not hold that university degree.

Allied Health. The allied health Allied Health professions each have a distinct, specialised body of knowledge and skills, and actively work with people accessing health and disability services across a range of settings. In their practice, allied health professionals provide services and engage in activities that may include: prevention, assessment/evaluation, identification/diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation/habilitation, promotion of health and well being, education, research and health services management. To be part of the allied health Allied Health professional workforce, health professionals must be: a) Involved in direct patient contact providing patient treatment, intervention or assistance, assessment, patient management and education, working in primary, secondary and tertiary care settings; b) Tertiary trained undertaking recognised university degrees at undergraduate and/or graduate entry level; c) Required to obtain specific qualifications to either obtain (or be eligible for) professional registration to practice, or to join the relevant professional association and have a specific professional qualification recognised by NZQA; d) Allied to each other and the medicalMedical, nursingNursing/midwifery Midwifery and technicalTechnical/scientific Scientific professions, working together as part of multidisciplinary or inter-professional teams to achieve best practice outcomes for the client across the primary, secondary and tertiary health sectors; and e) ‘Allied’ with clients, the client’s family/whanau whānau and other carers, and with the community in order to achieve best outcomes for the client. The parties recognise that historically, allied health Allied Health professions have not always required a university degree as an entry point to the profession. This coverage clause is not intended to exclude employees who: a) do not hold a university degree but who have achieved registration with their regulatory authority; or b) hold a position for which the current requirement is to have a university degree and/or registration but who does not hold that university degree.

Allied Health. The allied health professions each have a distinct, specialised body of knowledge and skills, and actively work with people accessing health and disability services across a range of settings. In their practice, allied health professionals provide services and engage in activities that may include: prevention, assessment/evaluation, identification/diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation/habilitation, promotion of health and well being, education, research and health services management. To be part of the allied health professional workforce, health professionals must be: a) Involved in direct patient contact providing patient treatment, intervention or assistance, assessment, patient management and education, working in primary, secondary and tertiary care settings; b) Tertiary trained undertaking recognised university degrees at undergraduate and/or and /or graduate entry level; c) Required to obtain specific qualifications to either obtain (or be eligible for) professional registration to practice, or to join the relevant professional association and have a specific professional qualification recognised by NZQA; d) Allied to each other and the medical, nursing/midwifery and technical/scientific professions, working together as part of multidisciplinary or inter-professional teams to achieve best practice outcomes for the client across the primary, secondary and tertiary health sectors; and e) ‘Allied’ with clients, the client’s family/whanau and other carers, and with the community in order to achieve best outcomes for the client. The parties recognise that historically, allied health professions have not always required a university degree as an entry point to the profession. This coverage clause is not intended to exclude employees who: a) do not hold a university degree but who have achieved registration with their regulatory authority; or b) hold a position for which the current requirement is to have a university degree and/or registration but who does not hold that university degree.

Allied Health. The allied health professions each have a distinct, specialised body of knowledge and skills, and actively work with people accessing health and disability services across a range of settings. In their practice, allied health professionals provide services and engage in activities that may include: prevention, assessment/evaluation, identification/diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation/habilitation, promotion of health and well beingwellbeing, education, research and health services management. To be part of the allied health professional workforce, health professionals must be: a) Involved involved in direct patient contact providing patient treatment, intervention or assistance, assessment, patient management and education, working in primary, secondary and tertiary care settings; b) Tertiary tertiary trained undertaking recognised university degrees at undergraduate and/or graduate entry level; c) Required required to obtain specific qualifications to either obtain (or be eligible for) professional registration to practice, or to join the relevant professional association and have a specific professional qualification recognised by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA); d) Allied allied to each other and the medical, nursing/midwifery and technical/scientific professions, working together as part of multidisciplinary or inter-professional teams to achieve best practice outcomes for the client across the primary, secondary and tertiary health sectors; and e) ‘Alliedallied’ with clients, the client’s family/whanau whānau and other carers, and with the community in order to achieve best outcomes for the client. The parties recognise that historically, allied health professions have not always required a university degree as an entry point to the profession. This coverage clause is not intended to exclude employees who: a) do not hold a university degree but who have achieved registration with their regulatory authority; or b) hold a position for which the current requirement is to have a university degree and/or registration but who does not hold that university degree. c) are involved in the training and development of other Allied Health Clinicians (e.g. Educators) but who do not directly provide patient care as part of that role. For avoidance of doubt, the broad category of Allied includes employees employed as Psychologists in the prevention, assessment, diagnosis, intervention and treatment of children, adolescents, adults and families.