Course Title: Manage legal and ethical compliance
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2022
Course Code: JUST5756C
Course Title: Manage legal and ethical compliance
Important Information:
Please note that this course may have compulsory in-person attendance requirements for some teaching activities.
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School: 535T Social Care and Health
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5357 - Diploma of Remedial Massage
Course Contact: Laura Yeomans
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4289
Course Contact Email: laura.yeomans@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
laura.yeomans@rmit.edu.au
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.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None.
Course Description
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to research information about compliance and ethical practice responsibilities, and then develop and monitor policies and procedures to meet those responsibilities.
This unit applies to people working in roles with managerial responsibility for legal and ethical compliance in small to medium sized organisations. There may or may not be a team of workers involved.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
CHCLEG003 Manage legal and ethical compliance |
Element: |
1. Research information required for legal compliance |
Performance Criteria: |
1. Research information required for legal compliance |
Element: |
2. Determine ethical responsibilities |
Performance Criteria: |
2. Determine ethical responsibilities |
Element: |
3. Develop and communicate policies and procedures |
Performance Criteria: |
3. Develop and communicate policies and procedures |
Element: |
4. Monitor compliance |
Performance Criteria: |
4. Monitor compliance |
Element: |
5. Maintain knowledge of compliance requirements |
Performance Criteria: |
5. Maintain knowledge of compliance requirements |
Learning Outcomes
Please refer to the Elements of Competency above.
Details of Learning Activities
Students will engage in a hybrid unit. This being a combination of workshops and webinars via collaborate ultra within Canvas.
- Students will work within groups.
- Discussion boards.
- Use of break out groups virtually.
- review of class resources
- engagement of association regulations in Industry
Teaching Schedule
eek |
Class & Activities | Assessment Task |
| 1 |
Introduction to unit Review of : Legal terminology Industry Regulations Code of Conduct |
Organise Assessment task 2 groups AT1 & 2 |
| 2 |
Review: Personal Ethics and boundaries Responsibilities and Ethics |
At1 & 2 - Group work in class |
| 3 |
Review: Duty of Care Negligence Clients rights |
At1 & 2 -Group work in Class |
| 4 |
Review: Informed Consent Privacy and Confidential |
At1 & 2 -Group work in Class |
| 5 |
Review: Documentation and the Law Client recordkeeping and keeping accurate documentation |
At1 & 2 -Group work in Class |
| 6 |
Review: Working with Children Misconduct and respect for others |
At1 & 2 -Group work in Class |
| 7 |
Review: Employment Standards |
At1 & 2 -Group work in Class |
| 8 | Assessment 2 interviews with groups |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
To be deemed competent you must demonstrate an understanding of all aspects required of the competency. Assessment methods have been designed to measure your achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over multiple tasks.
Assessment Task 1 – Case studies
Assessment Task 2 – Written assessment
Assessment Tasks
Assessment 1 - written assessment relating to an industry related situations . Students are to respond to the case study by answering all questions within the assessment .Due date - refer to Canvas
Assessment 2 - written assessment completed within a working group . Students are to create a clinic policy book relating to a working clinic. Due date - refer to Canvas
Assessment Matrix
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