CHCDEV001

Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to review the developmental status of a client. Note that the client may be a child or a young person.

Work at this level may require guidance and/or supervision from appropriately qualified personnel, especially where provision of direct client services is involved.

This unit applies to people working in a range of community service contexts including: juvenile justice, alcohol and other drugs services, mental health, and child protection

Unit mapping information

This unit supersedes CHCLD415A Confirm client developmental status

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.

Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency

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.

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