Assessment Requirements for CHCECE016 Establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children

Release: 2

Assessment Requirements for CHCECE016 Establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children

Modification History

Release	Comments
Release 2	Updated: assessor requirements statement foundation skills lead in statement licensing statement modification history to reflect 2012 standards Equivalent outcome.
Release 1	This version was released in CHC Community Services Training Package release 1.0 and meets the requirements of the 2012 Standards for Training Packages. Significant changes to elements and performance criteria. New evidence requirements for assessment, including volume and frequency requirements.

Performance Evidence

The candidate must show evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the job role. There must be demonstrated evidence that the candidate has completed the following tasks: established and maintained an environment that is safe and healthy for children in at least once service, including: communicating hazards and safety issues to appropriate persons within the service coordinating emergency responses including evacuation plans planning and coordinating supervision of children promoting and monitoring safety practices, including administration of medicines and safe handling of food coordinating appropriate procedures for handling infections and illnesses, including communicating with families enacting strategies to support children to take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing.

Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively do the task outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage the task and manage contingencies in the context of the work role. These include knowledge of: how to access: the National Quality Framework the National Quality Standards the relevant approved learning framework how to navigate through framework and standards documents to find areas relevant to this unit of competency common childhood illnesses and appropriate responses strategies for minimising risk notifiable diseases organisational standards, policies and procedures.

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. 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 • evacuation plans • health and safety procedures and policies, including food-handling, travel and medication administration. Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015/AQTF mandatory competency requirements for assessors.

Links

Companion Volume implementation guides are found in VETNet - https://vetnet.gov.au/Pages/TrainingDocs.aspx?q=5e0c25cc-3d9d-4b43-80d3-bd22cc4f1e53