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Demonstrate an integrated practice
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level:
6
credit:
15
planned review date:
June 2005
sub-field:
Social Services
purpose:
People credited with this unit standard are able to reflect on
and analyse the theoretical framework, values, and practice
skills in a practice situation in employment support; and
reflect on and analyse the integration of theory, values, and
practice skills into a personal practice theory for employment
support.
entry information:
Open. Assessment for this unit standard will occur within the
context of a qualification in employment support.
Assessment should be undertaken after the candidate has
achieved credit for the majority of the other unit standards in
the qualification that cover the underpinning knowledge and
skills required for this unit standard.
accreditation option:
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA, industry and
teaching professional in the same field from another
provider.
moderation option:
A centrally established and directed national moderation
system has been set up by Community Support Services ITO
Limited (Careerforce).
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special notes:
1
People awarded credit in this unit standard are able to
implement Te Tiriti o Waitangi in the social services
according to the authority and resources available to
them, and are able to demonstrate application of this
competence to the context of assessment for this unit
standard (for further clarification, please refer to Unit
7928, Implement Te Tiriti o Waitangi in the social
services).
2
It is anticipated that people seeking credit for this unit
standard will demonstrate competence and be
assessed in the course of field education, whether or
not this takes place through work based situations or
fieldwork placements. Evidence is required in relation
to two employment support situations.
3
Fieldwork, fieldwork placement, and field education are
defined in: Te Kaiawhina Ahumahi. 2000. Guidelines for
Providers of Education and Training in the Social
Services within the National Qualifications Framework.
Wellington: Te Kaiawhina Ahumahi. Te Wahanga
Tuaono - Part Six, Nga mahi a takiwā me nga mahi
tuwaenga - Fieldwork and practical experience, 6.1 6.25.
4
Service provider is the work setting of the candidate.
5
Relevant social policy and legislative and regulatory
requirements may include but are not limited to:
Minister for Disability Issues. April 2001. The New
Zealand disability strategy: Making a world of
difference: Whakanui oranga. Wellington: Ministry of
Health;
Department of Labour. September 2001. Pathways to
inclusion: Ngā ara whakauru ki te iwi whānui: Improving
vocational services for people with disabilities.
Wellington: Department of Labour;
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Department of Social Welfare. 1990. Vocational
Opportunities Support Programme: Issues, policy, plan.
Wellington: Department of Social Welfare;
accident compensation legislation, including the
Accident Compensation Act 1982 and the Injury
Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act
2001;
Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’
Rights 1996;
Disabled Persons Community Welfare Act 1975;
Disabled Persons Employment Promotion Act 1960;
Education Act 1989;
Employment Relations Act 2000;
Health and Disability Services Act 1993;
Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001;
Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992;
Human Rights Act 1993, Industrial Relations Act 1973;
Minimum Wages Act 1983;
Privacy Act 1993;
Public Health and Disability Act 2000;
State Sector Act 1988 (and associated Equal
Employment Opportunity EEO strategies);
New Zealand Standard (NZS) 8134:2001 Health and
Disability Sector Standards: Te Awarua o te Hauora,
available from Standards NZ - Paerewa Aotearoa:
Wellington.
6
Practice skills include the skills defined in unit
standards that are compulsory requirements for any
employment support qualification where this unit
standard is a compulsory component.
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7
The following apply to the performance of all elements
of this unit standard:
a
All activities must comply with service provider
guidelines, protocols, staff manuals, strategic
plans, kawa, or tikanga.
b
All activities must comply with relevant cultural,
legislative, and regulatory requirements, which
include but are not limited to: Code of Health and
Disability Services Consumers’ Rights 1996; NZS
8134:2001, Health and Disability Sector
Standards; Health and Disability Services (Safety)
Act 2001; Health and Safety in Employment Act
1992; Human Rights Act 1993; Official Information
Act 1982; Privacy Act 1993.
8
Resources related to developing an integrated practice
theory for employment support may include but are not
limited to:
a
Association
for
Persons
in
Supported
Employment.
1992, updated 1998.
Ethical
guidelines for professionals in supported
employment.
Richmond, VA: Association for
Persons in Supported Employment.
This resource is available at the APSE web site:
http://www.apse.org/products.html
b
DiLeo, D.; Langton, D. 1996. Facing the future:
Best practices in supported employment.
St
Augustine, Florida: Training Resource Network
Inc.
c
Rusch, Frank R.
(ed). 1990. Supported
employment: Models, methods and issues.
Sycamore, Il.: Sycamore Pub.
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Elements and Performance Criteria
element 1
Reflect on and analyse the theoretical framework, values, and practice skills in a practice
situation in employment support.
performance criteria
1.1
Significant features of the situation are identified and analysed, and the work
undertaken by the candidate is explained.
Range:
1.2
significant features include but are not limited to - outline of the
known facts and chronology of the situation; outline of the
community; agencies; candidate's work role and function; macro,
meso, and micro issues in the situation;
outline of the work undertaken by the candidate includes but is not
limited to - career planning; job development and marketing;
workplace orientation and training, and ongoing employment
support; work with diverse groups; developing and enhancing
quality; overall evaluative analysis.
Significant features of the service provider context of the candidate are
explained.
Range:
significant features of the service provider context may include but
are not limited to - the service provider's mission statement; the
community context of the agency; the kind of concerns, issues,
and needs disabled people bring to the service provider; the
candidate’s role and function.
Evidence is required of the candidate’s role and function and three
other significant features.
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1.3
The theoretical framework that was used to explain and guide the candidate's
actions is explained.
Range:
1.4
The values that supported and guided the candidate's actions are explained.
Range:
1.5
evidence is required of theoretical explanation or guidance in
terms of its relevance to employment support in Aotearoa New
Zealand; and the sources may include but are not limited to the
resources cited in special note 8.
values that supported and guided the candidate's actions supported employment ethics, supported employment values,
world views.
Evidence is required of two supported employment ethics, two
supported employment values, and a concise statement of the
candidate’s world view.
The practice skills that were used by the candidate are identified, and their
application is explained.
Range:
evidence is required of three practice skills and their application in
the employment support practice situation.
element 2
Reflect on and analyse the integration of theory, values, and practice skills into a personal
practice theory for employment support.
performance criteria
2.1
The impact of working in the service provider's context is explained in terms of
the development of the candidate’s professional identity.
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2.2
The impact on the candidate's professional identity is explained in terms of their
role in the service provider.
2.3
New learning from the employment support practice situation is identified and
explained.
Range:
new learning - theory, value base, practice skills.
2.4
New learning is analysed, and personal and professional change and
development is explained in terms of the basis for future practice.
2.5
Reflection on and analysis of the theory base, values, and practice skills in the
employment support practice situations demonstrates an integrated personal
practice theory for employment support practice.
2.6
The practice theory is conscious, coherent, consistent with the candidate's
world view, and consistent with criteria established by service provider
guidelines and relevant social policy and legislative and regulatory
requirements.
2.7
The candidate’s developmental needs are identified and explained.
Range:
developmental needs - personal, professional.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Community Support Services ITO Limited (Careerforce)
info@careerforce.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit
standard.
Please Note
Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority or a delegated interinstitutional body before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards
or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority before
they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
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Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for providers wishing to
develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and
assessors, and special resource requirements.
This unit standard is covered by AMAP 0222
http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
which can
be
accessed at
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