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The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the work role. This includes knowledge of:
legal and ethical considerations for the domestic and family violence work, and how these are applied in organisations and individual practice:codes of conduct discriminationduty of care human rights mandatory reporting practitioner/client boundaries privacy, confidentiality and disclosure, including limited confidentiality rationale and processesrecords management rights and responsibilities of workers, employers and clientsspecific legislative frameworks that apply to domestic and family violence, including the following types of legal orders:apprehended violence orders (AVO)domestic violence orders (DVO) violence restraint orders (VRO)probation and parole ordersinterstate orders (ISO)child protection ordersfamily court orderwork role boundaries – responsibilities and limitationswork health and safetycurrent and emerging domestic and family violence research, theory and practice principles for working with user of domestic and family violence who behave violently and abusivelytactics and dynamics of violence and abuseprinciples of good practice in relation to providing integrated services for working with users of domestic and family violence and abusedomestic and family violence assessment instruments and how they are usedintervention models and practicesgender and power issues/politics of abuseinter and intra agency protocols and policies (needs more)collaborative practice in domestic and family violence, including benefits, different models and opportunitiesprinciples of risk assessment in domestic and family violenceself knowledge, including own biases and the potential impact on work practices.