CHCECE002

Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge to ensure the health and safety of children.

This unit applies to educators working in a variety of education and care services.

Unit mapping information

This unit supersedes CHCCN301C Ensure the health and safety of children

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.

Reading – in order to accurately read and interpret medication packaging and dosage instructions.

Numeracy – in order to correctly calculate medication dosages for common measurements including milligrams (mg) and millilitres (ml).

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 a regulated education and care service.

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.

Asthma and anaphylaxis aspects of this unit are best assessed in conjunction with HLTAID004 Provide an emergency first aid response in an education and care setting.

Assessment must ensure use of:

• National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education and Care
• the relevant approved learning framework under the National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education and Care.

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