Assessment Requirements for CHCPRT009 Provide primary residential care

Release: 1

Assessment Requirements for CHCPRT009 Provide primary residential care

Modification History

Release	Comments
Release 1	This version was released in CHC Community Services Training Package release 1.0 and meets the requirements of the New Standards for Training Packages. Significant changes to elements and performance criteria. New evidence requirements for assessment.

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: outlined terms of placement with at least one client in care, including expectations, rules, consequences for behaviour and client rights and responsibilities resolved issues, reviewed placement progress and explained grievance procedures completed and maintained all relevant documentation accurately provided/mobilised domestic support, including: addressing and negotiating ways to meet clients’daily needs implementing procedures to ensure environment is clean, healthy and safe negotiating with client for the continued use, maintenance and/or disposal of their possessions and consumables provided clients with education, support and development, including: implementing a range of approaches to life-skills training making arrangements to support client to attend school or undertake vocational training and/or employment negotiating with relevant referral agency/organisation for the provision of health care education negotiating with client and personnel for access to a range of emotional, social and physical support mechanisms assessed and addressed resettlement needs of clients and negotiated required resources, services and ongoing support identified appropriate levels of contact with client once out of care.

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: relevant statutory procedures, responsibilities and rights service protocols, philosophies and processes characteristics of appropriate client-worker relationships procedures to ensure the environment is clean, healthy and safe available resources and programs stages of grief the impact and signs of abuse cultural protocols, systems and taboos parenting models budgeting practices protocols for working with professional service providers models of child development.

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.

Links

Companion volumes are available from the CS&HISC website - http://www.cshisc.com.au/