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Demonstrate knowledge of working
within Pacific Island social services
level:
3
credit:
3
planned review date:
June 2002
sub-field:
Social Services
purpose:
People credited with this unit standard are able to describe
Pacific Island social services work, and identify personal
attributes required of Pacific Island social service workers.
entry information:
Open.
accreditation option:
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and industry.
moderation option:
A centrally established and directed national moderation
system has been set up by Community Support Services
ITO Limited (Careerforce).
special notes:
1
People awarded credit in this unit standard are able to
demonstrate knowledge of the meaning of the articles
of Te Tiriti o Waitangi for social service purposes, and
are able to apply this knowledge to the context of
assessment for this unit standard (for further
clarification, please refer to Unit 7926, Demonstrate
knowledge of the Treaty of Waitangi for social service
purposes).
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2
Pacific Island refers primarily to the main island groups
represented in New Zealand, namely Samoan, Tongan,
Cook Island, Niuean, Tokelauan, Fijian, Tuvaluan,
Solomon Islands, Kiribati.
3
Pacific Island social services work may be paid or
unpaid, and includes but is not limited to: community
work, counselling, iwi development, social work, youth
work, and other social services work provided by
individuals where the major resource at the disposal of
a social services provider is the social service worker
providing the service. Social service workers take both
a service delivery and a developmental approach.
The service delivery approach responds to the day to
day needs which arise in the lives of people, while the
developmental approach is aimed at enabling
community groups, families and individuals to define
their own needs, establish their autonomy and access
to resources, and initiate or support planned
developmental changes.
Pacific Island social service workers have roles and
functions in working with individuals, couples, families,
whānau, groups, and communities; and with social
control and social change.
4
Pacific Island social service workers include but are not
limited to: community workers, counsellors, social
workers, youth workers, and others who deliver Pacific
Island social services, whether paid or unpaid.
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5
Value base of Pacific Island social service work
includes service provider, cultural, professional, and
societal values.
6
Some fields of social services work do not as yet have
a code of ethics that is recognised by a national
professional body. This unit standard recognises the
codes of ethics that have been published by
professional associations within the social services, and
acknowledges that in future other codes may be added
to this standard as they are published. At this stage,
recognised social services code of ethics includes the
codes of ethics of the New Zealand Association of
Counsellors, New Zealand Association of Social
Workers, and other published codes of ethics and
practice of social service agencies and organisations.
A code of ethics for Pacific Island Social Services will
be recognised when it is developed some time in 2000.
7
Key Pacific Island values refers to values that are at the
core of the cultural beliefs, institutions, and structures
of each Pacific Island. These may vary from Pacific
Island to Pacific Island, and will be defined according to
authorities from the Pacific Island that is the focus of
the context for assessment. It is likely that key Pacific
Island values will be those that guide beliefs and
behaviour in relation to matters such as: age, church,
custom, family, gender, genealogy, obligations,
protocols, sexuality, status.
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Elements and Performance Criteria
element 1
Describe Pacific Island social services work.
performance criteria
1.1
Description defines Pacific Island social services work and the roles and
functions of Pacific Island social service workers.
1.2
Description identifies similarities and differences between the fields of social
service work.
Range:
fields - community work, counselling, iwi development, Pacific
Island social services, social work, youth work;
evidence is required of identification of one significant feature for
each of the fields and comparison of that significant feature with
each of the rest of the range.
1.3
Description identifies the ethics and value base of Pacific Island social service
work according to one recognised social services code of ethics.
1.4
Description identifies the impact of social services work in Aotearoa New
Zealand in accordance with Pacific Island oral traditions.
Range:
evidence is required in relation to the oral traditions of one Pacific
nation.
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1.5
Description identifies key Pacific Island values in terms of how they are
demonstrated in the context of Pacific Island social services work.
Range:
evidence is required of three key values from one Pacific nation
and their demonstration in one context of Pacific Island social
services work.
element 2
Identify personal attributes required of Pacific Island social service workers.
performance criteria
2.1
Description identifies the personal attributes required of Pacific Island social
service workers.
Range:
personal attributes - ability to relate to difference as evidenced by
acknowledgment and respect for difference, acceptance,
awareness of own culture, genuineness, honesty, humility,
patience, self awareness, warmth, accountability to one Pacific
Island community.
2.2
Description compares the personal attributes of the person seeking credit in this
unit standard with the personal attributes required of Pacific Island social
service workers.
2.3
Description compares the ethics and values base of the person seeking credit
in this unit standard with the ethics and values base required for working within
Pacific Island social services.
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Comments to:
Careerforce
PO Box 2637
Wellington 6140
Please Note:
Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority
before they can offer programmes of education and training
assessed against unit standards.
Accredited providers assessing against unit standards must
engage with the moderation system that applies to those unit
standards. [Please refer to relevant Plan ref: 0222]
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