SISSSCO011 - Manage integrity in sport

Unit code: SISSSCO011 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours
70
Location
Footscray Park
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to manage integrity in sport risks, inform participants about integrity in sport and assist participants to address integrity issues.

This unit applies to individuals working in the Australian sport industry in community based roles. This includes individuals working and volunteering in sport clubs and organisations.

Specific industry accreditation requirements may apply to sport-specific coaching accreditation and information should be obtained from the relevant National Sporting Organisation (NSO).

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • manage integrity in a specific sport over a period of one month that involves:
    behaving and making choices with integrity
    identifying and controlling three integrity in sport risks
    providing integrity in sport information to three participants
    consulting with the participants to develop, implement and review strategies to support them with integrity in sport issues

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • legislative and regulatory requirements applicable to integrity in sport;

  • organisational policies and procedures applicable to integrity in sport;

  • behaviours that exemplify personal, practice and organisational integrity in sport;

  • behaviours that undermine personal, practice and organisational integrity in sport;

  • ethical decision making;
    relationship between competition and integrity
    strategies for maintaining awareness of personal values, principles, beliefs and moral codes guiding behaviours and choices
    strategies for recognising own biases, inclinations, desires and fears that contribute to behaviours and choices
    strategies for identifying and avoiding slippery slope traps
    ethical decision making framework

  • consequences of poor integrity to:
    participants ;wider public; work health and safety

  • types of support staff and how they can assist participants with integrity in sport issues;

  • integrity in sport risks and issues;
    drugs in sport:
    illegal drugs; pharmaceutical drugs supplements
    doping using performance enhancing drugs (PEDs)

  • abuse and discrimination including at training and events and on social media and social networking sites;

  • gambling; match fixing; illegal betting; corruption; unethical behaviour and criminal behaviour

  • child abuse;
    sexual; physical; emotional; grooming; neglect; family violence; organised sexual abuse; indicators of child abuse; impact of abuse; creating a child-safe environment; reporting child abuse.

  • available support services and resources to assist participants with integrity in sport issues;

  • consent requirements for under-age participants, and;

  • types of strategies to assist participants to address integrity in sport issues.
    educational programs; integrity in sport government information services; intervention strategies; development of ethical codes and policies.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Diploma of Sport
SIS50321 | Diploma | Duration:

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