Course Title: Work with clients with unique needs

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C6054

Course Title: Work with clients with unique needs

Portfolio: DSC

Nominal Hours: 75.0

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

HWSS5309C

City Campus

TAFE

365T Global Studies, Soc Sci & Plng

Face-to-Face or Workplace

Term1 2011

Course Contact: Mary Collins

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99254598

Course Contact Email: mary.collins@rmit.edu.au


Course Description

In this unit you will develop the knowledge and skills required by higher skills workers to work with clients with exceptional needs and complex and multiple issues including working with offenders with a disability . 


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Students are assumed to be experienced disability staff working in the disability or community services fields.  



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

CHCCS601A Work with clients with unique needs

Elements:

1.  Conduct complex assessment

2. Design add apply appropriate strategies and programs

3. Monitor and evaluate the plan 


Learning Outcomes

Please see elements.


Overview of Assessment

Assessment will be through a mix of in-class tasks, workplace based projects and a workplace assessment.  A workplace assessment appointment will be undertaken once per year with each student to allow students to present and discuss workplace evidence.