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

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 may have compulsory in-person attendance requirements for some teaching activities.  

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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.