Course Title: Provide systems advocacy services

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C6099

Course Title: Provide systems advocacy services

Portfolio: DSC

Nominal Hours: 90.0

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)
JUST5168C	City Campus	TAFE	365T Global Studies, Soc Sci & Plng	Face-to-Face or Internet or Workplace

Course Contact: Steven Bruechert

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99254577

Course Contact Email: steve.bruechert@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This unit describes the knowledge and skills required by the worker to advocate to ensure that the rights and needs of consumers and clients issues are maintained within the broader rights and needs of the general community

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Students must have at least five years of work experience in disability work and preferably currently working in a management role and be self- directed.

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	CHCAD603A Provide systems advocacy services
Elements:	1. Obtain, analyse and document information relevant to the needs of clients as a community of interest within the general community
	2. Work with consumers, service users, services and other stakeholders to develop strategies to address identified needs
	3. Advocate for and facilitate the implementation of strategies developed to address the needs of clients with specific needs

Learning Outcomes

To identify and develop  the knowledge and skills required by the student as a worker to advocate to ensure that the rights and needs of consumers and clients issues are maintained within the broader rights and needs of the general community to : 

1. Obtain, analyse and document information relevant to the needs of clients as a community of interest within the general community

2. Work with consumers, service users, services and other stakeholders to develop strategies to address identified needs

3. Advocate for and facilitate the implementation of strategies developed to address the needs of clients with specific needs

Overview of Assessment

A workplace assessment appointment will be undertaken to allow students to present and discuss workplace evidence: Based on the individual student’s knowledge, skills and experience: an individual learning plan will be negotiated and developed. Students may be offered a number of assessment tasks and learning strategies such as workshop attendance, case studies, research project work and workplace activities and support to meet their assessment needs for this course (unit of competency).