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Templates to use with competency job profiles

Customise Your Own Competency Job Profile

Step 1

Review the Competency Job Profiles to find one that is fairly similar to the job you are thinking about.

Step 2

Create a table and then layout the Units of Competency.

Step 3

Review each Unit of Competency within the Competency Job Profile

Actions:

Look carefully at each Element of each Unit of Competency. Decide if the Element is relevant to the task and responsibilities of the job.

Discussion

Some of the Elements refer to attitudes; some of the Elements describe an action. Often an Element seems to be saying what the goal is, for example, Element 1 of CHCDIS 2C reads ‘Work to enhance the independence and ‘self-determination’ of the person with a disability. This means that instead of doing a task for a person with a disability you might:

Organise the task so that the person can manage some parts of it themselves.
Talk to the person about what their needs are and arrange the task to meet those needs.
Show the person how to do the task and provide them with some help. You might help them by:
- Working with them,
- Using a diagram or word picture to give them prompts and reminders,
- Use hand signals to remind them of what to do next, or
- Make the task simpler or easier to do by using ai

By looking at each Element carefully, and thinking about what it means in your organisation and for the people you will be supporting, you can decide if that Element and then that Unit of Competency needs to be included in your Competency Job Profile.

You may choose to keep the Unit of Competency with each Element staying the same. Or you may choose to make some alterations to the Unit of Competency to make it fit in better.

Refer to the Example of Customise Your Own Competency Job Profile