Application

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to support the community to represent their own priorities and aspirations through social and public action.
This unit applies to workers using a community development approach to carry out work in the health, community services or other sectors. Workers at this level are part of a professional team and have the responsibility of supervision of others.
The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State or Territory legislation, Australian standards and industry codes of practice.
No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

What You'll Learn

Assessment Requirements

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit in the context of the job role, and:
• support at least one community to identify their rights and represent their priorities and aspirations through social and public action.

Knowledge Evidence

Demonstrated knowledge required to complete the tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit:
• Commonwealth, State or Territory legislation and public policies impacting on community development processes
• social, community and youth issues impacting the local community
• social structures and systems in the community
• principles and practices of community development work:
• structural disadvantage and inequality
• social justice and human rights:
• individual
• family
• community
• society
• current social policy and its implementation programs
• components of strategic planning
• decision-making systems and leadership
• community development principles relevant to social action, public action and asset-based approaches
• principles of community engagement
• techniques for negotiation and conflict management
• processes for undertaking action research
• role and means of social movements as the driver for social change
• techniques for service promotion
• general and cultural issues relevant to specific community group
• strategies and mechanisms for evaluation of activities
• organisational policies and procedures for documentation.

Assessment Conditions

Skills must be demonstrated in the workplace or in a simulated environment that reflects workplace conditions.
Assessment must ensure:
• access to facilities, equipment and resources that reflect real working conditions and model industry operating conditions and contingencies
• access to Commonwealth, State or Territory legislation and public policies impacting on community development processes
• access to organisational policies and procedures
• opportunities for engagement with community stakeholders.
Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors.

Foundation Skills

• {'skill': 'Foundation Skills', 'description': 'Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.'}

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