CHCPRT004

Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required by child protection workers to support children and young people, and to assist families to ensure that children and young people are safe and appropriately cared for. It also covers the ethical, duty of care and legal requirements for this work.

This unit applies to work undertaken in paraprofessional child protection occupations in government and non-government organisations

Unit mapping information

This unit supersedes CHCCHILD505B Work effectively in child protection and out of home care for children and young people

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.

Oral communication – in order to facilitate collaborative discussions with children and their families.

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:

• under supervision and in a child protection 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.

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