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Integrate knowledge, skills, and values
learning in a Pacific Island social
service setting
level:
4
credit:
15
planned review date:
June 2002
sub-field:
Social Services
purpose:
People credited with this unit standard are able to identify
knowledge, skills, and values in two workplace situations in a
Pacific Island social service setting, and integrate new
learning into a knowledge, skills, and value base for Pacific
Island social service practice.
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).
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special notes:
1
People awarded credit in this unit standard are able to
demonstrate knowledge of te tino rangatiratanga and
kawanatanga of the Treaty of Waitangi, and are able to
demonstrate knowledge of how to apply the articles of
the Treaty of Waitangi to social services. They are able
to apply this knowledge to the context of assessment
for this unit standard (for further clarification, please
refer to Unit 7927, Demonstrate knowledge of the
application of the Treaty of Waitangi in the social
services).
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
It is anticipated that people seeking award of credit in
this unit standard will demonstrate competence and be
assessed in a workplace in Pacific Island social
services, whether through paid or unpaid employment,
or in a fieldwork placement in a workplace negotiated
by an education provider.
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. Pacific
Island social service worker is used to refer to the
person seeking award of credit in this unit standard.
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This unit standard is based upon generic knowledge,
skills, and values for social service practice and specific
knowledge, skills, and values for Pacific Island social
service practice.
The generic knowledge, skills, and values for social
services are defined in:
Community
Support
Services
ITO
Limited
(Careerforce). 1997. Guidelines for Providers of
Education and Training in the Social Services.
Wellington: Community Support Services ITO Limited
(Careerforce). (N.B. Pacific Island social service
theory within New Zealand is in development).
Specific knowledge, skills, and values for Pacific Island
social service practice includes but is not limited to the
competencies defined in unit standards from:
FIELD: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES
Sub-field: Social Services
domain: Pacific Island social services.
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Elements and Performance Criteria
element 1
Identify knowledge, skills, and values in two workplace situations in a Pacific Island social
service setting.
Range:
the two workplace situations may occur in different Pacific Island social service
settings.
performance criteria
1.1
Description of two workplace situations in a Pacific Island social service setting
identifies the specific knowledge, skills, and values for Pacific Island social
service practice that were relevant to the situations.
Range:
1.2
evidence is required of three statements for each situation
identifying relevant specific knowledge, skills, and values for
Pacific Island social service practice.
Reflection on two workplace situations in a Pacific Island social service setting
identifies the knowledge that was used to explain and/or guide the Pacific
Island social service worker's actions.
Range:
evidence is required of three statements of knowledge for Pacific
Island social service practice that were used to explain and/or
guide the Pacific Island social service worker's actions in each
situation.
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1.3
Reflection on two workplace situations in a Pacific Island social service setting
identifies the skills that were used in the situations by the Pacific Island social
service worker.
Range:
1.4
evidence is required of three skills for Pacific Island social service
practice that were used in each situation by the Pacific Island
social service worker.
Reflection on two workplace situations in a Pacific Island social service setting
identifies the values that were used to support and/or guide the Pacific Island
social service worker's actions.
Range:
evidence is required of three values for Pacific Island social
service practice that were used in each situation to support and/or
guide the Pacific Island social service worker's actions.
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element 2
Integrate new learning into a knowledge, skills, and value base for Pacific Island social
service practice.
Range:
evidence of the integration of new learning is required in relation to two
workplace situations in a Pacific Island social service setting;
the two workplace situations may occur in different Pacific Island social service
settings.
performance criteria
2.1
Reflection on two workplace situations in a Pacific Island social service setting
identifies new learning for the Pacific Island social service worker in terms of
her/his existing knowledge, skills, and values base for Pacific Island social
service practice.
Range:
2.2
new learning - knowledge, skills, values;
evidence is required of one new learning in each of the workplace
situations for each of the range.
Reflection on new learning identifies links to Pacific Island theory and research.
Range:
Pacific Island theory and research - Pacific Island research,
Pacific Island literature, Pacific Island oral traditions, Pacific Island
genealogy, Pacific Island history and political development, Pacific
Island community development in New Zealand;
evidence is required of linkage of new learning to two of the
range.
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2.3
Integration of new learning is identified according to development of the Pacific
Island social service worker's knowledge, skills, and value base for Pacific
Island social service practice.
Range:
development - personal, cultural, professional.
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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