CHCLEG001 - Work legally and ethically

Unit code: CHCLEG001 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours:
55
Location
City Campus
Footscray Nicholson
Footscray Park
Industry
St Albans
Sunshine
Werribee
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to identify and work within the legal and ethical frameworks that apply to an individual job role. This unit applies to community services and health workers who play a proactive role in identifying and meeting their legal and ethical responsibilities.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • completed workplace activities in accordance with legal and ethical requirements in at least three (3) different situations;
  • developed appropriate responses to at least three (3) different legal or ethical issues relevant to the work role, and;
  • identified and communicated at least two (2) potential work practice improvements designed to enhance workplace responsiveness to legal and ethical requirements.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • legal and ethical considerations (international, national, state/territory, local) for people working in the community services and health context, how they are applied in organisations, how these impact individual workers, and the consequences of breaches;
  • interrelationships, similarities and differences that may exist between legal and ethical frameworks;
  • legal issues in the context of the work role;
  • ethical practice in the context of the work role, and;
  • workplace policies, procedures and protocols.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Certificate III in Individual Support
CHC33021 | Certificate iii | Duration:
Certificate IV in Alcohol and Other Drugs
CHC43215 | Certificate iv | Duration:
Certificate IV in Mental Health
CHC43315 | Certificate iv | Duration:
Certificate IV in Youth Work
CHC40421 | Certificate iv | Duration:
Diploma of Emergency Health Care
HLT51020 | Diploma | Duration:

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