Elements and Performance Criteria
- Model high standards of performance
- Personal performance is consistent with the organisation's goals and objectives
- Appropriate professional techniques and strategies are modelled
- Personal work goals and plans reflect individual responsibilities and accountabilities in accordance with organisational/legal requirements
- Ethical and inclusive practices are applied in professional practice
- Determine personal development needs
- Personal knowledge and skills are assessed against units of competency and other relevant benchmarks to determine development needs and priorities
- Changes in vocational education and training policy and operating environments are identified and the impact on professional practice and personal development needs is determined
- Feedback from colleagues and clients is used to identify personal learning needs/areas of professional development
- Future career options are identified
- Personal learning needs are documented and updated
- Personal development needs are discussed with relevant personnel for inclusion in the professional development plan
- Participate in professional development activities
- Development opportunities suitable to personal learning style/s are selected and used to support continuous learning and maintain currency of professional practice
- Professional networks are participated in to support continuous learning and to maintain professional practice
- Own performance and professional competency is continuously improved through engagement in professional development activities
- Technology is used to maintain regular communication with relevant networks, organisations and individuals
- Reflect on and evaluate professional practice
- Developments and trends impacting on professional practice are researched and integrated into work performance
- Feedback from colleagues/clients is used to identify and introduce improvements in work performance
- Innovative and responsive approaches for improving professional practice are identified through the use of continuous improvement techniques and processes
- Records, reports and recommendations for improvement are managed within the organisation's systems and processes