Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes
- Demonstrate commitment to empowerment for people with disability
- Identify changes in the legal, political and social frameworks within which the work is undertaken
- Identify ways society can affect the level of impairment experienced by a person with disability
- Reflect on personal values and attitudes regarding disability and acknowledge their potential impact when working in disability contexts
- Develop and adjust own approaches to facilitate empowerment
- Foster human rights
- Assist the person with disability to understand their rights
- Deliver services that ensure the rights and needs of the person are upheld in the context of person-centeredness
- Ensure the cultural needs of the person are identified, accepted and upheld
- Identify breaches of human rights and respond and report according to organisation procedures
- Identify indications of possible abuse and/or neglect and report according to organisation procedure
- Facilitate choice and self-determination
- Using a person-centred approach work in a manner that acknowledges the person with disability as their own expert
- Facilitate person-centred options for action on relevant issues and discuss with the person and/or family and/or carer and/or relevant other
- Provide assistance to the person with disability to facilitate communication of their personal goals
- Provide person-centred support in a manner that encourages and empowers the person with disability to make their own choices
- Assist with strategies to ensure that the person is comfortable with any decisions that are being made on their behalf
- Assist with accessing advocacy services and other complaint mechanisms as required