NZQA registered unit standard
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Title
Describe social service work in Aotearoa New Zealand
Level
3
Credits
3
Purpose
This is a theory unit standard for people considering their
interest in and suitability for social service work in Aotearoa
New Zealand. People credited with this unit standard are able
to describe social service work in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Classification
Social Services > Professional Development of Social Service
Workers
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
Glossary
Codes of ethics that have been published in Aotearoa New Zealand, and are
recognised within the social services industry, include but are not limited to the codes
of ethics of: Ara Taihoi, Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers,
Canterbury Youth Workers Collective, New Zealand Association of Counsellors, New
Zealand Association of Probation Officers. Other codes of ethics may be notified to
organisations with consent to assess and registered assessors by Careerforce as
they are published and become recognised by the industry.
Social service work may be paid or unpaid, and includes but is not limited to:
community work, counselling, Iwi/Māori social services, Pacific Island social services,
social work, youth work, and other social services work provided by individuals or
teams where the major resources of the social service provider are the social service
workers themselves. Social services take both a service delivery and a
developmental approach.
The service delivery approach responds to the day to day needs which arise in the
lives of people, while the developmental approach is aimed at enabling community
groups and individuals to define their own needs, establish their autonomy and
access to resources, and initiate or support developmental change. Social service
workers have roles and functions in working with individuals, couples, families,
whānau, hapū, iwi, groups, and communities; and with social control and social
change.
Social service workers include but are not limited to: community workers, counsellors,
kaiāwhina, social workers, kaitautoko, Pacific Island social service workers, youth
workers, and others who deliver social services, whether paid or unpaid.
Value base of social service work includes agency, cultural, professional, and
societal values.
2
The publication referred to in evidence requirement 1.4 is: Ministerial Advisory
Committee on a Māori Perspective for the Department of Social Welfare. 2001
Reprint. Puao-Te-Ata-Tu (day break) The Report of the Ministerial Advisory
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Committee on a Māori Perspective for the Department of Social Welfare. Wellington:
Department of Social Welfare. It is available from
http://www.msd.govt.nz/documents/about-msd-and-our-work/publicationsresources/archive/1988-puaoteatatu.pdf.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Describe social service work in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Evidence requirements
1.1
The description defines social service work and the roles and functions of social
service workers.
Range
1.2
The description includes an outline of the major forms of social service work in
Aotearoa New Zealand.
Range
1.3
evidence is required of two values statements and two ethical
standards from one recognised code of ethics.
The description provides the meaning of key Māori values in terms of how they
can be demonstrated in social service work.
Range
1.5
major forms – community work, counselling, Iwi/Maōri social
services, Pacific Island social services, social work, youth work.
Evidence is required of an outline of four of the range.
The description identifies the ethics and value base of social service work
according to one recognised social service code of ethics.
Range
1.4
evidence is required of the roles and functions of four different
kinds of social service worker.
key Māori values may include but are not limited to – ārahi, aroha,
āwhina, manaaki, tūmanako, whakapono.
Evidence is required of the meaning of six key Māori values.
The description outlines personal attributes required of social service workers.
Range
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personal attributes required of social service workers may include
but are not limited to – ability to relate to difference;
acknowledgement and respect for difference; awareness of own
culture; genuineness; honesty; humility; patience; self-awareness;
warmth.
Evidence is required of an outline of six attributes.
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Planned review date
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31 December 2017
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
7 November 1996
31 December 2014
Revision
2
10 August 1998
31 December 2014
Revision
3
6 January 2000
31 December 2014
Review
4
26 June 2002
31 December 2014
Rollover and
Revision
5
21 February 2013
N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0222
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact Careerforce info@careerforce.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the
content of this unit standard.
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