WMTIND401A Assessment Workbook: Case Studies in Weight Management

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Module 1: Student Assessment Workbook - Task
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Qualification 10576NAT - Certificate IV in Weight Management
Unit/s WMTIND401A - Work effectively in the weight management industry
Assessment Type Written Task
Name of Student: [ ]
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Assessment Activities
1.0 Client Relations
1.1 A client provides the following feedback in relation to your weight management services.
I feel like I am not receiving a lot of value for my money. The sessions are good, but they are really short and I
am left to my own devices for the rest of the week. I don’t feel like your organisation really cares about me,
they just want my money.
Below, write your response to the client’s feedback (as though you were talking to the client). Ensure your
response is in accordance with the Weight Management Services Employee Handbook and provides a solution
to the feedback.
Weight management service is important for an individual because this will maintain and manage their
weight in a proper manner. It is essential because weighing too much is not good for health. WMS
main aim is to provide the best service of weight management services and products in the industry.
This will only arise if best practices are followed by all staff members. It is not possible that weigh
management service is waste any client money but it is providing best facilities to them. The sessions
are short because they are learning a lot of things in small sessions but if sessions are large so this will
create a burden on the body of a person (Thom and Lean, 2017). The company provides its equipment
and techniques for the clients which help them in properly losing weight without any issue. The
organization always cares for their clients who are trust and belief in their services and facilities and
they do not waste their money in any manner.
1.2 Another client makes the following complaint.
The services your organisation delivers are not in line with what you state. You promise to help everyone
achieve results but currently I haven’t seen any results and I have been using your services for 4 weeks now.
Below, write your response to the client’s feedback (as though you were talking to the client). Ensure your
response is in accordance with the Weight Management Services Employee Handbook.
The role of weight management practitioner in the organization is to provide advice to the clients and
give the practical solution which develops trust among them. It is achieved by conducting planning
and deliver safe and effective weight management programs for a person and mainly group are
concentrate on educations for permanent lifestyle changes. A company offers best practices and
services to the client are which help them in losing their weight. It is not true that the facility providers
do not give effective services to their clients who come to take services to make their body healthy and
stable. Sometimes, practitioners are busy so they do not properly focus on their client’s health which
makes them feel unwanted and thinks they are waste money. It is not possible that if they are working
hard to lose weight so they are surely loss weights in a better manner. But if they have not seen any
results and outcomes so they will require spending more time on the equipment.
1.3 A regular client of yours has been attending weight management sessions with visible injuries. They are
using a lot of negative self-talk and when you bring it to their attention they confide in you they have been
considering suicide.
Explain what you would do. Ensure you consider the Weight Management Practitioner Scope of Practice. Your
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answer should explain the ethical values and ethical practices.
The role of weight management practitioner is to provide best services and solutions to the clients for
losing weight of the body. This will help in reaching by planning and delivering the safe and effective
weight management programs for a person and they are mainly focus on education which help how to
use equipment the practitioners are provide objectives, unbiased feedback to people and it is determine
the best course of activity in order to meet the client’s personal needs and wants. For this, organization
practitioners are taking interview of the clients in order to work out their needs (Pérez and Cambra-
Fierro, 2015). The practitioner needs to conduct session with them and try to understand their issue
and provide possible solutions to them which force them to not do such suicide actions.
1.4 Explain the principles of a client-focused approach, including philosophies and principles of community
development to enable the application of inclusive practices. Include examples in your response.
The client focused approach mainly focuses on needs, choice, wants and interest of the young
individual. The main principle is that client is the key people which are not only identify their issue
but also assist them in resolve their problem and manage such in better manner. In this, practitioners
are treat people with respect and dignity and they are being aware about their personal perceptive,
beliefs, values and choices. As per the philosophical point of view, an individual are likely to do such
things which help them in motivating and encouraging them what they are need and want. The
principle of community and development are enabling the application of inclusive practices and
services in better manner. The practitioners are helpful in performing their task of a day in proper way.
For example, if a person is demotivate to perform their work so their philosophical principles will
assist in motivating them effectively.
1.5 Prepare a communication to a Weight Management Clinic group about the cancellation of the evenings
session due to your illness. The communication should be in the form of a formal email.
Dear clients,
I am practitioner of Weight Management Clinic group of the organization. I am informed you that the
evening session has been cancelled due to my illness. I am suffering from high fiver so we can
conduct this session tomorrow. I hope you all present tomorrow for this session.
Thank you
Practitioner
2.0 Personal Performance
2.1 Examine your performance in the 10576NAT Certificate IV in Weight Management course to date. Explain
with justification:
a) Have you’re progressed as planned?
b) Have you completed tasks on time?
c) What sources of information have you found on the weight management industry?
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d) How could you improve your performance through future parts of the course?
Ensure your response demonstrates an ability to meet deadlines and manage time.
a) The client are planned their time schedule according to this they are perform their regular activities.
It is clear that, Weight management course help me in lose weight and I can see my progress in few
days that will motivate and encourage me in complete all task in better manner.
b) Yes, I am completed all the task in given time period which provide me extra time to progress on
my other daily plans. With the loss of weight, the client feels very active and energetic through which
they can complete all work in limited period (Prakash and Barua, 2016).
c) The weight management industry has various sources of information which is used to describe the
technique and underlying the physiological procedures which assist in contributing an individual
ability to gain and maintain some weight. There are some techniques of weight management are
encompass with long term lifestyle strategies which promote healthy eating and conduct regular
physical activities.
d) The client can improve their future performance by conduct training and development session
which assist them in enhancing their skills and knowledge in proper manner. it is important for
practitioners is to provide effective course related to weight management for the clients which are
helpful in reaching with their target and goals.
2.2 During a weight management session your client states they are feeling unwell. They have a history of
heart disease and look sweaty and pale.
Explain what you would do, ensuring your response is in accordance with Weight Management Services
Employee Handbook.
At the time of weight management session, if the client is feeling unwell so the service provider needs
to ask them to take some rest. After that they require to relax such person and offer them water which
will reduce their stress and make them stable (Curtis, Lahiri and Brown, 2015). Then practitioner need
to explore their history in which they have heart disease and look sweaty and pale that is very
dangerous so they immediately took him to the hospital for the further treatment. Such things help
them in easily recover soon.
3.0 Laws, Legislation, Organisational Policy and Procedure
3.1 Explain 3 work practices you must follow as a weight management practitioner, in order to meet
OHS/WHS requirements within your state. Ensure your response includes the WHS/OHS requirements of the
task as well as the relevant parts of the legislation. Example: Duty of Workers legislation requires that weight
management practitioners do not work alone.
There are three work practice which must be followed as a weight management practitioner to meet
with WHS/OHS requirements:
 Workplace health and safety help in emergency situation which are useful for the client.
 They are maintained and manage work and progress the equipment’s effectively.
 This will protect the environment where risk is arising related to health and safety which need
to be controlled.
It is important that practitioners do not work alone in the Duty of Workers legislation in the weight
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management practitioners.
4.0 Weight Management Industry
4.1 Explain 3 different sectors of the weight management industry. For each sector explain their functions
(areas of responsibility), roles (actions to fulfill the responsibilities) and the sectors interrelationships.
Sector Functions Roles Interrelationships
Example:
Diet shakes, bars,
supplements and
powders
Make eating low calorie
meals easy
Provide low calorie, filling
foods
Only short-term success
Should be combined with a
healthy diet, exercise and
longer-term nutrition
strategy
Dietary
supplements
Make meals with low
calories
Provide low calorie and
filling foods
Short term success and it
should be combined with
healthy diet.
Fresh and frozen
diet meals
It is low calorie meals
easy
provide low calorie,
filling foods with wide
variety
This should be combined
with healthy diet, long
term nutrition strategy
and exercise.
Individual
weight loss
counseling
services
It provide personalized
weight loss information
and weight administration
planning
Provide counseling
sessions and meal plan
and guideline in exercise.
Perform work in group
counseling and it is
require medical
intervention with some
clients.
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4.2 Summarize the “Weight Management Practitioner Scope of Practice”. In your summary ensure you also
identify what is outside the scope of practice and what is required when presented with a client or situation
outside your scope of practice.
In this, the role of weight management practitioner is to offer practical solution and try to resolve all
issues of their clients in better manner. This will help in losing weight and attend sessions which assist
them to do so. The clients are attending weight management programs where they are focus on
providing them education for permanent lifestyle (Nallusamy and Saravanan, 2016). When a people
are suffered from the outside area so they are provide them outside scope of practices which charge
money. In this situation, there is a risk of blending the rules and regulations will be occurred.
4.3 You are asked to write a short blog post for your organisation’s website on the economic and social
significance of weight gain and weight loss, and its impact on both individuals and the community. Include
your blog post below.
It is important for the country government is to develop effective policies and strategies regarding
weight loss which help them in taking higher position where healthy people are live. The prevalence
of obesity has more than doubled in the last 30 years and in the year of 2025 it is develop around 70
percent of Australian population will be obsess and overweight. Loss in productivity due to obesity
through absentees, premature death and presenteeism is predicted around 6.4 billion dollar.
The student performance
within this task was:
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Comments
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adjustment if appropriate)
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References
 Nallusamy, S. and Saravanan, V., 2016. Enhancement of overall output in a small scale industry
through VSM, line balancing and work standardization. In International Journal of Engineering
Research in Africa (Vol. 26, pp. 176-183). Trans Tech Publications.
 Curtis, K.E., Lahiri, S. and Brown, K.E., 2015. Targeting parents for childhood weight management:
development of a theory-driven and user-centered healthy eating app. JMIR mHealth and
uHealth, 3(2), p.e69.
 Prakash, C. and Barua, M.K., 2016. A combined MCDM approach for evaluation and selection of
third-party reverse logistics partner for Indian electronics industry. Sustainable Production and
Consumption, 7, pp.66-78.
 Pérez, L. and Cambra-Fierro, J., 2015. Learning to work in asymmetric relationships: insights from
the computer software industry. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 20(1), pp.1-
10.
 Thom, G. and Lean, M., 2017. Is there an optimal diet for weight management and metabolic
health?. Gastroenterology, 152(7), pp.1739-1751.
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