CHCCCS036 - Support relationships with carer and family

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:

• recognise and respond to the support needs of the carer or family members of at least three different people who are using the service
• provide support to the carer or family of one person undergoing a change in care arrangements including identification of risks and use of strategies to address risks.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

• context for caring in Australia:

• carer demographics
• carer support organisations and resources
• attitudes, stereotypes, false beliefs and myths associated with caring
• different pathways into service settings for the person and the implications for carer and family

• rights, roles and responsibilities of different people in the care relationship:

• the person
• family members
• friends
• support worker

• impact of the caring role on carer and family
• different family patterns and structures and their impact on the person
• life cycle transitions:

• types of transitions
• positive and negative impacts

• current service delivery philosophy and models:

• basic principles of person-centred practice, strengths-based practice and active support
• strategies to work positively with carers and families
• social and emotional wellbeing frameworks

• organisational policies and procedures in relation to carers and families
• scope and breadth of assistive technologies used across the life domains, including but not limited to:

• self-care
• continence and hygiene
• communication
• mobility and transferring
• cognition and memory loss
• vision and hearing
• daily living activities
• recreation and leisure
• education and employment
• home and other environments
• eating and drinking
• pressure area management
• carer support

• role and use of assistive technologies in supporting the activities of the carer and family and the person receiving support
• risk assessment tools and management strategies for the carer and family
• legal and ethical requirements for working with the carer and family and how these are applied in an organisation and individual practice:

• discrimination
• privacy, confidentiality and disclosure
• work role boundaries, responsibilities and limitations.