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Demonstrate knowledge of professional and ethical career practice
Level
5
Credits
8
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: demonstrate knowledge of
ethics in career practice; identify interested parties and their expectations in
career practice; and demonstrate knowledge of professional boundaries in
career practice.
Subfield
Career Practice
Domain
Career Consultation
Status
Registered
Status date
20 November 2009
Date version published
20 November 2009
Planned review date
31 December 2013
Entry information
Open.
Replacement information
This unit standard replaced unit standard 13120.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and
industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
The Skills Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0121
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
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Definitions
Boundaries refer to client psycho-social issues, non-career related issues,
relationship with the client, and philosophical views.
Career refers to the wide range of occupational, family, civic, and political roles which
individuals will undertake throughout their adult lives. It includes paid employment,
self-employment, unpaid work, multiple jobbing, entrepreneurial enterprise, homebased enterprise, study as an adult, and unemployment. A career is a
developmental and lifelong process.
Career practice refers to the umbrella profession under which the following vocations
sit – career resources, career information, career education, and career consultation
which includes career counselling, career advice, and career guidance.
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Client refers to people receiving a career related service who may be individuals or
groups, associated with employment, education, or training, or in some cases may be
an organisation.
Counselling refers to the several processes of interviewing, testing, guiding, and
advising. It is designed to help an individual solve problems and plan for the future.
Ethical practice refers to the code of practice as defined in the constitution of an
established career practice association or organisation, for example, the Career
Practitioner Association of New Zealand.
Interested parties refer to the client, the purchaser of the service where this is other
than the client, representatives of the purchaser of the service, and representatives
of the client.
Practitioner refers to a specialist who gives expert advice or information.
Psycho-social issues refer to underlying issues clients may present in a career
consultation that may create barriers to career development of the client, for
example: employment history, unemployment, culture, rehabilitation, abuse, health –
physical and emotional, disabilities, pregnancy, relationships, grief, addictions,
convictions.
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Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes but is not limited to the: Privacy Act
1993, Human Rights Act 1993, Consumer Guarantees Act 1993.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Demonstrate knowledge of ethics in career practice.
Performance criteria
1.1
Ethical practices of career practitioners are outlined in accordance with relevant
legislation.
1.2
Ethical practices of career practitioners are outlined in accordance with relevant
codes of practice.
1.3
The rationale for basing the interaction between client and practitioner on a
body of knowledge that recognises the significance of ethical practice in career
counselling is outlined.
1.4
Possible biases in career practice are determined in terms of their potential
impact on professional and ethical career practice.
Range
biases include but are not limited to – gender, culture, Māori,
ethnicity, age, religion, philosophy, learning, disability, socioeconomic group, career options, language.
Element 2
Identify interested parties and their expectations in career practice.
Performance criteria
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2.1
Interested parties are identified in the context of career practice.
2.2
Expectations of interested parties are determined in terms of career practice.
2.3
Areas where the career practitioner is not able to meet the expectations of the
interested parties are recognised and explained in accordance with ethical
practice.
Element 3
Demonstrate knowledge of professional boundaries in career practice.
Performance criteria
3.1
Professional boundaries are outlined in terms of ethical career practice and
legislative requirements.
Range
3.2
The significance of any existing relationships between the client and career
practitioner is analysed in accordance with professional boundaries in career
practice.
Range
3.3
crossed boundaries, shifts in boundaries, perceived changes in
boundaries.
context includes – professional, non-professional, sexual, power.
Strategies to be used in response to shifts in boundaries are outlined in
accordance with ethical practice.
Please note
Providers must be 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 accredited by NZQA 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.
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 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 The Skills Organisation info@skills.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes
to the content of this unit standard.
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