CHCECE003 - Provide care for children
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CHCECE003-WBK
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This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to ensure children’s physical and emotional well-being is maintained and their self-sufficiency is nurtured.
This unit applies to people who work with children in a range of early education and care services.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
This unit applies to people who work with children in a range of early education and care services.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Performance Evidence
The candidate must show evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the job role. There must be demonstrated evidence that the candidate has completed the following tasks at least once:
The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively do the task outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage the task and manage contingencies in the context of the work role. This include knowledge of:
Skills must be assessed in the workplace.
In addition, simulations and scenarios must be used where the full range of contexts and situations cannot be provided in the workplace or may occur only rarely. These are situations relating to emergency or unplanned procedures where assessment in these circumstances would be unsafe or is impractical.
Simulated assessment environments must simulate the real-life working environment where these skills and knowledge would be performed, with all the relevant equipment and resources of that working environment.
Assessment must ensure use of:
The candidate must show evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the job role. There must be demonstrated evidence that the candidate has completed the following tasks at least once:
- provided care and responded appropriately to at least three children of varying ages, including:
- promoting physical activity and encouraging participation
- engaging children in discussions around physical health and wellbeing
- adapting the physical environment to ensure challenge and appropriate risk-taking
- ensuring the smooth transition of new arrivals
- supporting children through transition and change
- performed the activities outlined in the performance criteria of this unit during a period of at least 120 hours of work in at least one regulated education and care service.
The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively do the task outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage the task and manage contingencies in the context of the work role. This include knowledge of:
- how to access:
- the National Quality Framework
- the National Quality Standards
- the relevant approved learning framework
- how to navigate through framework and standards documents to find areas relevant to this unit of competency
- basic principles of child physical and emotional development
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
- recommendations for physical activity for birth to 5-year-olds and 5- to 12-year-olds in the National Physical Activity Guidelines for Australians
- impact of changes of routines and environments for children
- sun safety
- relevance of hand hygiene for minimising infectious diseases
- code of ethics
- routines and strategies to minimise distress at separation of parent and child
- organisational standards, policies and procedures.
Skills must be assessed in the workplace.
In addition, simulations and scenarios must be used where the full range of contexts and situations cannot be provided in the workplace or may occur only rarely. These are situations relating to emergency or unplanned procedures where assessment in these circumstances would be unsafe or is impractical.
Simulated assessment environments must simulate the real-life working environment where these skills and knowledge would be performed, with all the relevant equipment and resources of that working environment.
Assessment must ensure use of:
- National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education and Care
- the relevant approved learning framework under the National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education and Care.