Provide Support Level Service to Children and Youths (Care & Programme)
About This Course
To equip social service professions with the knowledge skills and attitudes to identify needs of children and youths to provide appropriate support services
What You'll Learn
2. provide information relating to social services and support to children and youths
3. Provide inputs to the review of needs and support services for children and youths
4. Apply appropriate communications skills when interacting with children and youths
5. Apply relevant code of ethics
6. Provide for the safety and well being of children and youths
7. Apply appropriate self-care techniques to maintain personal emotional health as social service Professionals
Entry Requirements
Target audience includes individuals who should possess at least 2 years of working experience (for individual with minimum of 3 GCE ‘O’ level credits) or at least 1.5 years of working experience (for applicant with NITEC in Community Care and Social Services).The skills and knowledge for this course, which the learner is assumed to possess, are as follows:
• Be able to apply communication techniques suited to working with children and families
• Know the basic principles of client services
• Know the general practices of Workplace Safety and Health (WSH)
• Have a teamwork mind-set
• Have basic problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Have basic language / dialects skills relevant to clients’ target group
• Be able to listen, speak, read and write English at a proficiency level equivalent to the Employability Skills Workforce Skills Qualifications (ES WSQ) Workplace Literacy (WPL) Level 5 or equivalent (Grade of C6 for GCE 'O' level English)
• Be able to use numeracy skills