week 6 prepare for work
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Prepare for work in the community Sector
Careers in the CSI Recap Week 5 13/8/2013
• The CSI is a dynamic, flexible workplace where individuals can give back to their local communities while achieving their personal career goals.
• Employment prospects in the CSI are above average.
• Demographic changes predict increasing demand for CS.
• It’s expected maternal health, childcare & aged care services will continue to rise.
• Fastest growing occupations: personal care & nursing assistants, nurse managers, childcare workers, welfare & community workers.
Industrial Relations
• ‘Industrial relations’ refers to laws dealing with the arrangements that are made between workers and employers.
• These laws are developed by Federal & State Governments
• Other key players:
–Employers: focus on goods, services & profits
–Unions: focus on fair conditions for workers
• The laws cover different aspects of work including:
• Setting conditions about workers rights, such as pay rates, leave entitlements and dismissal rules.
• Guidelines and rules in relation to Workplace Health and Safety (WH&S) issues.
• Handling workplace disputes or infringements of the Industrial Relations Law
The Fair Work System
• Fair work system started on the 1st July 2009.
• It’s Australia’s new national (Federal) workplace relations system.
• The Fair Work Act 2009 covers a majority of workplaces in Australia
Key elements of the fair work system
• A legislated safety net of 10 National Employment Standards that apply to all employees within the federal system
– Includes: maximum weekly hours, requests for flexible working arrangements, parental leave and related entitlements, annual leave, personal/carer's leave and compassionate leave, community service leave, long service leave, public holidays, notice of termination and redundancy pay.
• New modern awards
• Enterprise bargaining arrangements
• Protection against discrimination and unfair dismissal
Unfair dismissal
• Students to refer to Fair Work Sheet (Small Business Fair Dismissal Code)
• In what instances is immediate dismissal permissible? ACTIVITY 3
• In a process that may lead to dismissal, what must an employer ensure happens?
• In discussions where dismissal is possible, who should an employee take to the meeting?
Unions
• Unions can help employees in many ways:
– Training about industrials issues
– Preserving & improving wages & conditions
– Better health & safety at work
– Job security
–Workers compensation help
– Protection from discrimination
– Lobbying governments on workers’ behalf
Week 6 20/8/2013
Key Philosophies in the CSIWhat do these terms mean? Discussion.
• Empowerment
• Social justice
• Inclusion
• Case management
• Early intervention/early identification
• Holisitic and client centred approach
• Non-discrimination
Key Philosophies in the CSI• Key philosophies that underline the
Community Service Industry include the following
• Empowerment: Working with someone in a way that upholds their rights, respects the choices they make and helps them achieve independence and a reasonable quality of life
• Social Justice: creating a society that is fair and equitable. This ensures that all services are accessible and that everyone is treated equally and fairly and is able to participate in decision making
• Inclusion: upholding everyone’s right to participate in their community and all that it has to offer
• Case management: an approach to service delivery which emphasises working with people in a way that respects them as individuals and ensures that their particular needs are met.
• Early Intervention or early identification: ensuring that problems and issues are picked up early so that further risk of harm is prevented or that the consequences of the problem/issue are minimised
• Holistic and client centred approach: looking at the whole person and their environment and working with them as individuals and on what they want
• Non-discrimination: treating people fairly no matter who they are
ACTIVITY 1
Working individually, students are to remember when they had a real life situation happen to them (generally or in the workplace) where AT LEAST ONE of the philosophies listed on slide 9 was relevant to them.
Discuss.
Essential Values in the CSIWhat do these terms mean? Discussion.
• Respect
• Acceptance
• Non-judgemental attitudes
• Confidentiality
• Self-determination
• Individualisation
Essential values in CSI
Values that underpin practice in the community service industry include:
• Respect for the individual and their situation
• Acceptance of people regardless of behaviour or situation
• Non-judgemental attitudes – not judging them in relation to who they are or what they have done
Essential values in CSI
Values (cont):
• Confidentiality – keeping what the individual tells you private (where appropriate, not telling anyone else).
Essential values in CSI
• Self-determination – encouraging people to make their own decisions (not telling them what to do)
• Individualisation – focusing on what the individual wants & their situation, not just what is easy for you
Values (cont):
ACTIVITY 2
Working individually, go back to the situation you unpacked and explored in Activity 1.
Ask your self the following questions -
What values were involved?
How were these included in the situation – was it another person/was it myself that the values related to?
Discuss as a class.
ACTIVITY 3
Working in pairs, use ONE of the examples provided on the handout – Case Scenarios/Role Play to model the philosophies and values we have discussed in this session.