Part A: Course Overview
Program: C4432 Certificate IV in Community Services
Course Title: Work with forced migrants
Portfolio: Vocational Education
Nominal Hours: 50
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.Important Information:
Please note that this course has compulsory in-person attendance requirements for some teaching and assessment activities.
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
HUSO5237C |
City Campus |
TAFE |
535T Social Care and Health |
Face-to-Face or Internet |
Term1 2024, Term2 2024, Term1 2025 |
Course Contact: Bella Kelly
Course Contact Phone: 9925 4109
Course Contact Email: bella.kelly@rmit.edu.au
Course Description
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to work with, and for, refugees within an ethical, social, political and economic context.
This unit applies to work within an agency, directly or indirectly, involved with the provision of services to forced migrants, people with refugee and special humanitarian visas, people granted refugee status in Australia, business and skilled migrants whose prime motivation for leaving their country was to escape violence or persecution, and the immediate family members of anyone from these groups.
Workers have limited responsibilities and work within established guidelines to develop, monitor and provide support and services in a range of areas, including but not limited to, settlement, accommodation, counselling, financial advice, family services, youth work, income support, education, health care and crisis intervention.
This course is delivered and assessed in a cluster with:-
- CHCMHS007 - Work effectively in trauma informed care
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None
National Competency Codes and Titles
National Element Code & Title: |
CHCSET003 Work with forced migrants |
Elements: |
1. Develop a professional rapport with people who are forced migrants 2. Plan settlement services 3. Address issues associated with people who are forced migrants 4. Monitor and review support |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate competency in the above elements.
Overview of Assessment
There are six individual assessment tasks consisting of written reflection, role plays, and short answer questions.