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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Model high standards of performance
   • Promote practitioner’s role with clients, colleagues and the public.
   • Determine individual responsibilities and accountabilities to reflect the requirements of contracts and work plans.
   • Model professional techniques and strategies for effective performance.
2. Determine personal development needs
   • Assess personal skills and knowledge against industry competencies and other relevant benchmarks to determine development needs and priorities.
   • Use feedback from colleagues and clients to identify personal learning needs and areas for professional development.
   • Research future career options and career development pathways.
   • Seek advice on undertaking career development options.
3. Participate in professional development activities
   • Identify and pursue formal and informal development activities to support continuous learning.
   • Maintain currency of professional practice through participation in professional association and networking events and activities.
   • Maintain industry relationships through relevant networks, organisations and individuals.
4. Evaluate and improve professional practice
   • Research developments and trends impacting on professional practice and integrate these into work performance.
   • Identify and implement improvement strategies using feedback from colleagues and clients, and results of research.
   • Monitor own performance and apply innovative and responsive approaches for improving professional practice.
5. Model high standards of performance
   • Promote practitioner’s role with clients, colleagues and the public.
   • Determine individual responsibilities and accountabilities to reflect the requirements of contracts and work plans.
   • Model professional techniques and strategies for effective performance.
6. Determine personal development needs
   • Assess personal skills and knowledge against industry competencies and other relevant benchmarks to determine development needs and priorities.
   • Use feedback from colleagues and clients to identify personal learning needs and areas for professional development.
   • Research future career options and career development pathways.
   • Seek advice on undertaking career development options.
7. Participate in professional development activities
   • Identify and pursue formal and informal development activities to support continuous learning.
   • Maintain currency of professional practice through participation in professional association and networking events and activities.
   • Maintain industry relationships through relevant networks, organisations and individuals.
8. Evaluate and improve professional practice
   • Research developments and trends impacting on professional practice and integrate these into work performance.
   • Identify and implement improvement strategies using feedback from colleagues and clients, and results of research.
   • Monitor own performance and apply innovative and responsive approaches for improving professional practice.

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified, the candidate must demonstrate evidence of performance of the following on at least one occasion.

using networks to gain information and other support appropriate to workplace or work role

identifying and prioritising individual professional development needs

showing how feedback is used to identify areas for development

using reflection strategies to identify new ways of improving performance

identifying gaps in own skills or knowledge

researching, analysing and identifying career options

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified, the depth of knowledge demonstrated must be appropriate to the job context of the candidate.

qualifications, specialisations and credentials in language, translation and interpreting

personal and professional goals and objectives

range of continuous improvement techniques and processes and their application

types and availability of professional development activities and opportunities

nature of professionalism in translation and interpreting

roles of bilingual workers, translators and interpreters

legal and policy context of translation and interpreting, including relevant federal and state government policies

current research in translation and interpreting

techniques for obtaining feedback

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