CHCEDS033 - Meet legal and ethical obligations in an education support environment
Nominal hours
Location
Industry
St Albans
Sunshine
Werribee
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
(Corequisite units must be studied concurrently with this unit)
Overview
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to identify and comply with legislation, policy and industrial instruments that relate to the education support worker role in school settings.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes & 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:
• complete at least one activity in each of the following areas of practice according to legal requirements:
• completion of documentation
• health, safety and wellbeing
• emergency response
• develop appropriate responses to two issues relevant to the work role:
• one legal issue or ethical dilemma
• one issue requiring application of policy or legislation.
Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
• role and responsibilities of an education support worker and specific understanding of own work role and responsibilities
• legislation, its purpose and key requirements that impact individual workers relating to:
• anti-discrimination
• child protection
• confidentiality and privacy
• duty of care responsibilities applicable to non-teaching staff
• equal employment opportunity (and associated equity and diversity principles)
• work health and safety
• organisational policies and procedures for responding to legislative issues, and how these are applied
• potential hazards and risks for students resulting from breaches of relevant legislation or policy
• requirements of industrial awards that directly impact the work role and related agreements
• the similarities, differences and interrelationships between legal and ethical issues in the context of education support
• potential legal and ethical issues and dilemmas that may arise and how to respond
• conflict of interest:
• identifying real and perceived conflicts of interest
• responding to conflicts of interest
• ways to constructively contribute to workplace improvements.
Required reading
The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system. Students will be provided with two texts books to assist with their learnings: -Karen Kearns Supporting Education text book -English Grammar
As part of a course
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):