Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
CSCINT004 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Assess offender risks and needs
Version 1.0
Issue Date: March 2024
Qualification | - |
Unit of Competency | CSCINT004 - Assess offender risks and needs |
---|---|---|---|
Description | |||
Employability Skills | |||
Learning Outcomes and Application | This unit describes the skills required to observe offender behaviour and presentation, assess risks and determine intervention approach.Offender risks encompass many different aspects of offender health and safety, including:suicide and self-harmrisk from othersrisk to otherssexual abusedrug and substance abuseanger managementdomestic violencenature of the offencepotential for repeat offence and re-offendingThis unit may apply to custodial and community corrections staff responsible for the management and review of offenders. The role includes identifying immediate and longer-term risks and needs to ensure allocation and referral of offenders to suitable and effective intervention and support services.The skills and knowledge described in this unit must be applied within the legislative, regulatory and policy environment in which they are carried out. Organisational policies and procedures must be consulted and adhered to, particularly those related to interaction with offenders.A person undertaking this role would normally work autonomously with support from a range of established sources. The role is complex, drawing upon the candidate's extracting, extrapolating and inferencing processes.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to unit at the time of publication. | ||
Duration and Setting | X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting. |
||
Prerequisites/co-requisites | |||
Competency Field | Intervention |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
Slides PPT |
Assessment 1 | Assessment 2 | Assessment 3 | Assessment 4 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Observe offender behaviour and presentation |
| |||||||
Element: Analyse nature and degree of risk |
| |||||||
Element: Determine intervention |
| |||||||
Element: Observe offender behaviour and presentation |
| |||||||
Element: Analyse nature and degree of risk |
| |||||||
Element: Determine intervention |
|