NZQA registered unit standard
8562 version 5
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Title
Assist a client to develop a future action plan to achieve a recreation
lifestyle
Level
5
Purpose
Credits
5
This unit standard is intended for a person working in a
recreation facility in a supervisory or managerial role.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: assess a
client's previous and current recreation experience,
competencies, and interests; assess opportunities available to
client for achieving preferred lifestyle; assess a client's
motivational factors and constraints in relation to recreation; and
assist a client to develop a future action plan.
Classification
Recreation and Sport > Recreation and Sport - Management
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
Client assessments must be non-judgmental and are undertaken with the client.
Problem solving is facilitated with the client and responsibility for all decisions remains
with the client. Client assessment and problem solving may include liaison with
relevant agencies with which the client is involved (eg if a client has a sight impairment
it might be important to link with the Foundation for the Blind).
2
Work with clients in relation to this unit standard must be completed in accordance with
the provisions of the Privacy Act 1993.
3
Definitions
Recreation is an activity through which leisure may be experienced and enjoyed.
Recreation involves freely chosen activities engaged in for wellbeing. Recreation
activities include: sport, fitness and health, art and crafts, outdoor pursuits, hobbies,
continuing education, ngā mahi a te rēhia, and activities with a service orientation.
Participation in recreation has individual, community, and social benefits.
Lifestyle may include – career, home, family, volunteering, leisure activities, income,
values and beliefs, living patterns, cultural mores.
Recreation includes – leisure and needs to be interpreted in its broadest possible
sense, and from the client's perspective, not the advisor's.
Client requirement and needs include – life cycle and lifestyle factors, opportunities and
constraints, interests, and preferences.
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Assess a client's previous and current recreation experience, competencies, and interests.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Client's previous and current recreation experience is identified and documented.
1.2
Assessment ascertains client's philosophy on participation in recreation.
1.3
Assessment identifies client's interests.
1.4
Assessment of client's current situation establishes skill and fitness levels.
Outcome 2
Assess opportunities available to a client for achieving preferred lifestyle.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Assessment identifies client's preferred lifestyle.
2.2
Assessment identifies career options which contribute to the preferred lifestyle.
2.3
Assessment identifies home management options which contribute to the
preferred lifestyle.
2.4
Assessment identifies recreation options which contribute to the preferred lifestyle.
2.5
Assessment identifies options for training and development required to meet
preferred recreation demands.
Outcome 3
Assess a client's motivational factors and constraints in relation to recreation.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Assessment identifies opportunities and constraints in terms of participation in
recreation.
Range
3.2
constraints – intrapersonal, interpersonal, structural.
Assessment identifies and examines life cycle and lifestyle characteristics in
relation to the identified opportunities and constraints.
Range
characteristics may include but are not limited to – age, living
patterns, principal relationships, dependants, mobility, health and
well-being, income, time, responsibilities.
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Assessment describes client's motivation to participate in recreation.
Outcome 4
Assist a client to develop a future action plan.
Evidence requirements
4.1
Strategies are developed in consultation with client for balancing career, home
and family, income, and recreation.
4.2
Interventions required to establish preferred lifestyle are developed in consultation
with client, and are relevant to client's requirements and needs.
4.3
Short, medium, and long-term plans are developed in consultation with client and
meet client's requirements and needs.
4.4
Strategies for implementing the short, medium, and long-term plans are
developed in consultation with client, and meet client's requirements and needs.
4.5
The need for review periods in plans to evaluate progress and reassess future
action is explained to client.
Planned review date
31 December 2012
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
22 November 1996
31 December 2012
Revision
2
14 February 2000
31 December 2012
Review
3
22 January 2002
31 December 2012
Review
4
12 February 2010
31 December 2012
Rollover and
Revision
5
20 May 2011
N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0099
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA, or
an inter-institutional body with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can
report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading
to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
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Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMRs). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact Skills Active Aotearoa Limited info@skillsactive.org.nz if you wish to
suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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