COMPETENCES CATALOGUE
Occupation title: Child Care Worker
Qualification title: Children`s and youth care and education
Occupation code: JEK4
UNITS OF LEARNING OUTCOMES CATALOGUE
| No. | Unit of learning outcomes |
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| Unit-1 | Plans, implements and assesses the care and education of children before and during school-age, and of adolescents |
| Unit-2 | Promotes children and adolescents` health and well-being and recognizes related threats. |
| Unit-3 | Takes the child and adolescent`s growth milieu into account and understands its significance for the child and adolescent`s growth and development |
| Unit-4 | Complies with social and health care legislation and official instructions, observing vocational ethics |
| Unit-5 | Acts according to principles of child- and family-focused work |
| Unit-6 | Exploits his/her language skills in customer service |
| Unit-7 | Develops his/her action on the basis of given feedback and assess his/her know-how |
| Unit-8 | Plans, implements and assesses the care, education and rehabilitation of children and adolescents who are sick and need special support |
| Unit-9 | Promotes children and adolescents` health and well-being and recognises related threats |
| Unit-10 | Takes the child and adolescent`s growth milieu into account and understands its significance for the child and adolescent`s growth and development |
| Unit-11 | Complies with social and health care legislation and official instructions, observing vocational ethics |
| Unit-12 | Acts according to the principles of child- and family-focused work |
| Unit-13 | Exploits his/her language skills in customer service |
| Unit-14 | Plans the productisation of his/her competence |
| Unit-15 | Develops his/her action on the basis of given feedback and assesses his/her know-how |
| Unit-16 | Guides an individual child and adolescent, as well as different groups |
| Unit-17 | Guides an individual child and adolescent, as well as different groups |
LEARNING OUTCOMES CATALOGUE for UNITS OF LEARNING OUTCOMES
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Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-1: Plans, implements and assesses the care and education of children before and during school-age, and of adolescents |
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| No. | Learning outcomes |
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| 1 | As a team member, plans, carries out and assess preschool education. |
| 2 | Plans, implements and assesses the early childhood education plan within the area of responsibility of a practical nurse. |
| 3 | Assesses the materialisation of a child or adolescent`s care and education as to the set objectives. |
| 4 | Records the plan which supports care and education and informs the parties involved, in accordance with valid instructions. |
| 5 | Acts as a team member, in accordance with the plan which supports care and education (incl. early childhood education) and updates it when needed. |
| 6 | Sets goals that support the child and adolescent`s overall growth and development and plans ways to carry out care and education. |
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Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-2: Promotes children and adolescents` health and well-being and recognizes related threats. |
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| No. | Learning outcomes |
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| 1 | Promotes, unprompted, the health and well-being of school-children and adolescents, exploiting the methods to promote health and well-being. |
| 2 | As a team member, supports, unprompted, the growth and physical, mental and social development of school-children and adolescents. Takes into account special aspects related to age, as well as the family situation (e.g. domestic violence or substance abuse). |
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Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-3: Takes the child and adolescent`s growth milieu into account and understands its significance for the child and adolescent`s growth and development |
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| No. | Learning outcomes |
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| 1 | Through his/her actions, promotes the favorable growth and learning environment of the child or adolescent and presents ideas for development. |
| 2 | Justifies his/her actions with his/her knowledge on the significance of the physical, mental and social growth milieu for the care and education of children and adolescents. |
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Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-4: Complies with social and health care legislation and official instructions, observing vocational ethics |
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| No. | Learning outcomes |
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| 1 | Justifies his/her actions with his/her knowledge on the principles of aseptics and related regulations. |
| 2 | Justifies his/her actions with the ethical principles, statues and regulations concerning the field of social and health care. |
| 3 | Justifies his/her actions on the basis of the statues, regulations and principles related to the client?s safety and his/her own occupational health and safety. |
| 4 | Prevents accidents and other health hazards, paying attention to the child and adolescent`s understanding. |
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Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-5: Acts according to principles of child- and family-focused work |
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| No. | Learning outcomes |
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| 1 | Justifies his/her actions with the principles of child- and family-focused work. |
| 2 | Cooperates, unprompted, with a working community and family in order to promote the child`s health and well-being, complying with the principles of partnership in education. |
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Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-6: Exploits his/her language skills in customer service |
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| No. | Learning outcomes |
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| 1 | Acts in a friendly, matter-of-fact and goal-oriented manner in interaction with children, adolescents and families and with his/her team. |
| 2 | In addition to the training language, manages service situations in Finnish or Swedish and in one other language. |
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Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-7: Develops his/her action on the basis of given feedback and assess his/her know-how |
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| No. | Learning outcomes |
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| 1 | Asks for and accepts feedback and readjusts his/her actions on the basis of given feedback and assesses his/her competence. |
| 2 | Recognizes his/her own strengths and development needs and sets objectives for his/her vocational development. |
| 3 | Works in an ergonomically correct way and prevents work-related accidents and injurie |
| 4 | Justifies his/her actions with the principles of multi-disciplinary team work and networking. |
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Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-8: Plans, implements and assesses the care, education and rehabilitation of children and adolescents who are sick and need special support |
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| No. | Learning outcomes |
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| 1 | In his/her work community, seeks ways to solve and support the needs for special support of the child, adolescent and family. Tends to the illnesses of children or adolescents on the basis of the care and education plan, as a team member, in different environments and updates the plan and reports on the updates. |
| 2 | Recognises needs related to growth and development and special support. Finds out the means how to support the child, adolescent and family. |
| 3 | Unprompted and using different data acquisition methods, acquires information about the child and adolescent`s development, individual needs for care and education, and illness. |
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Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-9: Promotes children and adolescents` health and well-being and recognises related threats |
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| No. | Learning outcomes |
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| 1 | Masters first aid and the basic resuscitation of children and adolescents, also in special situations. |
| 2 | Prevents accidents and other health hazards, paying attention to the child and adolescent`s understanding. |
| 3 | Justifies his/her actions with his/her knowledge on the most common needs for support of children and adolescence, and on the methods to help them with special education and rehabilitation. In his/her work, takes into account the threat of domestic violence and substance abuse, guides in getting help, and informs his/her team thereof. |
| 4 | Justifies his/her actions with his/her knowledge on the illnesses of children and adolescents of different ages, and on their treatment. |
| 5 | Justifies his/her actions with his/her knowledge on the nutritional recommendations and special diets of children (incl. breast feeding of babies) and adolescents. |
| 6 | Justifies his/her actions with his/her knowledge on the content and methods in promoting children and adolescent`s health and well-being and preventing problems. |
| 7 | Uses and services aid-devices according to their instructions and guides and motivates the child and adolescent in their appropriate use. |
| 8 | Recognises threats to the health and well-being of a child, adolescent and family and supports them. |
| 9 | Tends to the most common infections, independently and prevents them from spreading and when needed, refers the family for further examinations. |
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Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-10: Takes the child and adolescent`s growth milieu into account and understands its significance for the child and adolescent`s growth and development |
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| No. | Learning outcomes |
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| 1 | Recognises needs for the special support and social problems of the child, adolescent and family (incl. threat of domestic violence or substance abuse) and as a team member, supports and helps them cope with them. Encourages them to seek help. |
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Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-11: Complies with social and health care legislation and official instructions, observing vocational ethics |
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| No. | Learning outcomes |
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| 1 | Justifies his/her actions on the basis of the statutes, regulations and principles related to the client`s safety and his/her own occupational health and safety |
| 2 | Justifies his/her actions with the ethical principles, statutes and regulations concerning the field of social and health care |
| 3 | Justifies his/her actions with his/her knowledge on social problems of children, adolescents and families and support for coping with them |
| 4 | Justifies his/her actions with his/her knowledge on the principles and practices of child welfare in different work environments |
| 5 | Exploits and justifies his/her actions with his/her knowledge of the service system and income support related to children, adolescents and families |
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Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-12: Acts according to the principles of child- and family-focused work |
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| No. | Learning outcomes |
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| 1 | Applies a goal-orientated and rehabilitative approach in supporting the child, adolescent and family. |
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Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-13: Exploits his/her language skills in customer service |
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| No. | Learning outcomes |
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| 1 | Acts in a friendly, matter-of-fact and goal-oriented manner in interaction with children, adolescents and families and with his/her team |
| 2 | In addition to the training language, manages service situations in Finnish or Swedish, and in one other language |
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Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-14: Plans the productisation of his/her competence |
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| No. | Learning outcomes |
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| 1 | Plans and finds out in his/her work about the possibilities to productise one`s competence. |
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Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-15: Develops his/her action on the basis of given feedback and assesses his/her know-how |
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| No. | Learning outcomes |
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| 1 | Justifies his/her actions with the principles of multi-disciplinary team work and networking. |
| 2 | Recognises his/her own strengths and development needs and sets objectives for his/her vocational development. |
| 3 | Asks for and accepts feedback and readjusts his/her actions on the basis of given feedback and assesses his/her competence. |
| 4 | Works in an ergonomically correct way and prevents work-related accidents and injuries. |
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Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-16: Guides an individual child and adolescent, as well as different groups |
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| No. | Learning outcomes |
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| 1 | Cares for and guides a child in their daily activities, exploiting methods which promote health and well-being. |
| 2 | Supports the growth, development and learning of a child or a group of children, by using early education methods and contextual orientations independently. |
| 3 | Guides children?s play and exploits the opportunities provided by play in different situations. |
| 4 | Guides an individual child or group of children, so as to support interaction between children. |
| 5 | Guides and supports school-children and adolescents in self-expression and creative activities in a goal-oriented manner. |
| 6 | Guides groups of school-children and adolescents, so as to support interaction between the group members. |
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Unit of learning outcomes: Unit-17: Guides an individual child and adolescent, as well as different groups |
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| No. | Learning outcomes |
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| 1 | Guides an individual child and adolescent, as well as different groups. |
