Course Title: Facilitate the interests and rights of clients
Part A: Course Overview
Program: C5360 Diploma of Financial Counselling
Course Title: Facilitate the interests and rights of clients
Portfolio: Vocational Education
Nominal Hours: 100
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Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
LAW5734C |
City Campus |
TAFE |
365T Global, Urban and Social Studies |
Face-to-Face |
Term1 2016, Term1 2017, Term1 2018, Term1 2019 |
LAW5734C |
City Campus |
TAFE |
535T Social Care and Health |
Face-to-Face or Internet |
Term1 2022, Term1 2023 |
Course Contact: Jo Wallwork
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 3983
Course Contact Email: mary-josephine.wallwork@rmit.edu.au
Course Description
This course describes the skills and knowledge required to assist clients to not only identify their interests and rights but to voice and realise these interests, needs and rights.
This course describes the skills and knowledge required to assess and respond to the immediate and ongoing needs of clients in the context of a strengths-based and client-focused financial counselling model.
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None
National Competency Codes and Titles
National Element Code & Title: |
CHCADV001 Facilitate the interests and rights of clients |
Elements: |
E1. Facilitate the realisation of client interests, rights and needs E2. Advocate in accordance with client preferences and requests to optimise client outcomes E3. Provide ongoing support to clients E4. Support clients making a complaint E5. Review progress |
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. By applying these skills, you will be able to assist and support clients to articulate their own needs and requirements and be able to develop their own problem-solving and action-planning skills.
Overview of Assessment
Your knowledge and understanding of course content is assessed through a demonstration of skills where you will show your strategic approaches to working with clients and developing the clients' skills in goal-focused problem-solving. You will need to have a good understanding of your role as advocate, and what this means in terms of working with clients, and you will be required to explain this role clearly.
Your knowledge and understanding of course content is assessed through:
- Knowledge questions
- Role play/demonstration of skills and a work place simulation scenario
You will be given two (2) attempts for each assessment to demonstrate the required knowledge and skills. A third (3rd) attempt can only be offered after discussions between teacher and the Program Coordinator and is not automatic. Resubmissions beyond two (2) attempts are at the discretion of the teacher and/or coordinator.