CHCDEV004

Application

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to review the developmental status of a child or a young person.

Work at this level may require guidance and 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.

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.

Assessment Conditions

Skills must be demonstrated in the workplace, with the addition of simulations and scenarios where the full range of contexts and situations have not been provided in the workplace.

Assessment must ensure:

• access to facilities, equipment and resources that reflect real working conditions and model industry operating conditions and contingencies
• access to organisational standards, policies and procedures
• opportunities for engagement with real children or young people for assessment of developmental status.

Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors.