Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes.
- Demonstrate commitment to quality care for children and young people
- Identify relationships between the legal, political and social framework within which the work is undertaken
- Identify roles and responsibilities of system stakeholders and relationship to own work
- Comply with duty of care, policy, regulatory, legislative and legal requirements
- Identify and implement organisation policies and procedures
- Reflect on personal values and attitudes and acknowledge their potential impact when working in child protection contexts
- Follow risk-assessment procedures for child protection work
- Focus on supporting the rights, interests and needs of children, young people and families
- Ensure communication is age-appropriate, sensitive and respectful when dealing with children, young people and families
- Demonstrate ethical and safe work practices
- Observe lines of accountability in work undertaken in child protection and communicate decisions to relevant authorities
- Ensure client rights are protected
- Demonstrate effective worker safety/wellbeing and self-management activities in professional practices
- Use the relevant code of ethics, professional and organisation standards to guide service delivery
- Plan responses to address emergency situations and other contingencies based on ethical standards and organisation requirements
- Support staff to identify and resolve ethical dilemmas
- Acknowledge the challenges inherent in the work and develop strategies to address them