Course Title: Undertake community sector work within own community
Part A: Course Overview
Program: C2199 Certificate II in Community Services
Course Title: Undertake community sector work within own community
Portfolio: DSC Portfolio Office
Nominal Hours: 80
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.Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
HWSS5453C |
City Campus |
TAFE |
365T Global, Urban and Social Studies |
Face-to-Face or Internet or Workplace |
Term1 2012 |
Course Contact: Elizabeth-Anne Cotter
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4870
Course Contact Email: elizabeth-anne.cotter @rmit.edu.au
Course Description
This unit deals with the skills and knowledge required for workers to deal with a range of issues associated with delivery of programs and services to individual and communities within the context of community sector work in communities in which they are personally involved .
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
There are no prerequisites for this unit of competency.
National Competency Codes and Titles
National Element Code & Title: |
CHCCS421A Undertake community sector work within own community |
Elements: |
2. Apply appropriate service frameworks and models 3. Work in a culturally safe manner 4. Apply strategies and policies relevant to service delivery 4. Apply strategies and policies relevant to service delivery 1. Address cultural issues and complexities when working in own community 2. Apply appropriate service frameworks and models 3. Work in a culturally safe manner 1. Address cultural issues and complexities when working in own community |
Learning Outcomes
By completing this unit of competency you will achieve and demonstrate competence in the following skills:
Addressing cultural issues and complexities when working in own community
Applying appropriate service frameworks and models
Working in a culturally safe manner
Applying strategies and policies relevant to service delivery
Overview of Assessment
Assessment in this unit of competency will be through a mix of in-class tasks, case studies, scenarios, workplacement based projects, group work and team work, problem based learning and responses to a range of underpinning knowledge questions as well as the development of an evidence portfolio linked to the unit of competency elements and workplace practice.