CHCPRT005

Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to ensure that work is consistent with established practice frameworks.

This unit applies to people working in child protection contexts. Their work will require them to follow established procedures and ensure compliance with legislation and professional frameworks. Typically the worker will not supervise the work of others

Unit mapping information

No equivalent unit.

Licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication

Foundation skills

The foundation skills described those required skills (language, literacy and numeracy) that are essential to performance.

• Learning—in order to reflect on and review own professional practice

The remaining foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit

Unit sector or competency field

None specified

Prerequisite, co-requisite or interdependent assessment of units

None specified

Assessment conditions

Skills must be demonstrated in the workplace.

In addition, simulations and scenarios must be used where the full range of contexts and situations cannot be provided in the workplace or may occur only rarely.

These are situations relating to emergency or unplanned procedures where assessment in these circumstances would be unsafe or is impractical.

Simulated assessment environments must simulate the real-life working environment where these skills and knowledge would be performed, with all the relevant equipment and resources of that working environment.

Assessment must ensure use of:

• national frameworks, such as “Protecting Children is Everyone’s Business: National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009–2020”
• relevant state-based frameworks, such as Western Australia’s “Signs of Safety Child Protection Practice Framework” and Victoria’s “Best Interests Framework”.

Note: assessors must ensure that frameworks referenced are current and address national and state contexts.

Assessors must satisfy the NVR/AQTF mandatory competency requirements for assessors.