Application

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to organise, provide and monitor personal support services for a person within the limits established by an individualised plan. The individualised plan refers to the support or service provision plan developed for the person accessing the service and may have different names in different organisations.

This unit applies to workers who provide care or support under direct, indirect or remote supervision. Work is carried out in a manner which supports independence as well as the physical and emotional wellbeing of the person receiving support.

The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian standards and industry codes of practice.

No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Foundation Skills

Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the Performance Criteria of this unit of competency.

Unit Mapping Information

Supersedes and is not equivalent to CHCCCS011 Meet personal support needs and CHCCCS015 Provide individualised support.

Assessment Conditions

Skills must be demonstrated in the workplace or in a simulated environment as indicated in the performance evidence. Simulated environments must be designed to reflect conditions and interactions with real people in the workplace.

Tasks outlined in the performance evidence must be demonstrated in simulation prior to being assessed in the workplace.

Assessment must ensure use of suitable facilities, equipment and resources, including:

• facilities, equipment and resources that reflect real working conditions and industry operating conditions and contingencies
• organisational policies and procedures
• individualised plans
• equipment and resources outlined in individualised plans
• opportunities for engagement with people receiving support services according to an individualised plan or people who participate in simulations and scenarios that involve provision of support services according to an individualised plan.

Assessment tasks for this unit must be developed in collaboration with a health professional and carried out according to standards and guidelines that apply to the health and community services industries. Further detail may be found in the CHC Training Package Companion Volume.

Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors.