Elements and Performance Criteria
- Gather information.
- Consult and validate information and documentation with key people and information systems promptly and in accordance with policy and practice.
- Use effective interpersonal and communication strategies to establish relationship of trust with key people.
- Identify negative responses and adopt strategies to respond constructively to them.
- Determine the purpose, process and expectations of inquiries and confirm agreement with key people.
- Research information with a focus on factual data, contributing behaviour, attitudes and principal issues.
- Use effective questioning strategies to enable a comprehensive and relevant exchange of information.
- Encourage key people to identify and acknowledge problems and issues relevant to the inquiry.
- Analyse information.
- Ensure the reliability of information by identifying and investigating contradictions, inconsistencies and lack of clarity.
- Sort, collate and prioritise information according to the purpose and issues of the inquiry.
- Formulate conclusions, recommendations and outcomes consistently with the information available, justified by the evidence and presented in a style and format required by the purpose.
- Report on inquiries.
- Gather information on inquiries from a range of relevant and valid source material.
- Validate and authorise the information in the report, using a range of sources and methods.
- Use information from other source material ethically, accurately and in context.
- Use expression and language that is clear, concise and appropriate to the occasion and requirements.
- Prepare and distribute reports within agreed timeframes and according to organisation procedures.
- Communicate relevant and substantiated conclusions and recommendations to all relevant people in the time and format required.
- Promote service aims and objectives through consistency of conduct, behaviour and presentation in gathering information and preparing the report.