develop and maintain professional competency

Candidate’s Name

Phone No.

Assessor’s Name

Phone No.

Assessment Site

Assessment Date/s

Time/s

Appendix 1: Personal / Key Skills

1 Started but need more practice

2 Able to do this with some help

3 Competent without help

4 Competent and able to help others

Area

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4

Evidence /justify your rating

1. SELF MANAGEMENT

· Use, evaluate and adapt a range of academic skills (analysis, synthesis, evaluation, argument)

· Manage your time effectively (meet deadlines, get to appointments/classes on time)

· Set realistic objectives, priorities and standards

· Monitor, evaluate and adapt own performance

· Clarify personal values

· Evaluate your own potential for employment

· Show intellectual flexibility (be willing to see that there may be more than one way to solve a problem)

· Take responsibility for acting in a professional/ ethical manner

· Deal with criticism constructively

2. MANAGING YOUR LEARNING

· Take responsibility for your own learning and personal growth (monitor, evaluate and adapt your own performance; work towards long term aims and goals)

· Demonstrate an awareness of learning processes

· Set realistic objectives, priorities and standards

· Develop, evaluate and adapt learning strategies

· Use learning in new or different situations/contexts

· Learn through collaboration

· Purposefully reflect on own learning and progress

3. PROBLEM SOLVING

· Identify the key features of the problem

· Think laterally about the problem

· Conceptualize the issues

· Identify the options

· Identify solutions

· Plan and implement a course of action

· Carry out solutions

· Monitor evaluate and adapt solutions

4. COMMUNICATION

· Present oral/visual information competently

· Use appropriate language

· (essays, reports, presentations, interviews)

· Listen actively and effectively

· Offer constructive criticism

· Verbal communication (speak fluently and confidently to a variety of audiences)

· Produce a variety of written documents (using appropriate formats, accurate information, spelling, punctuation and grammar)

· Use charts, diagrams and other illustrations to support verbal and written communication

Evaluate and adapt strategies for communication

5. WORKING WITH OTHERS

· Plan with others (ensure clear goals, take responsibility and carry out appropriate tasks)

· Respect the views and values of others

· Adapt to the needs of the group/ team (take initiative, lead, delegate, stand back, negotiate etc)

· Assist and support others in learning

· Delegate and stand back

· Negotiate with individuals/groups

· Work to collective goals (work to agreed plans, within agreed resources)

· Monitor, evaluate and assess processes of group/ team work

6. DATA HANDLING

· Use appropriate sources of information (library, retrieval systems, IT, people etc )

· Use appropriate technology and media including IT

· Handle large amounts of information and data effectively

· Record and interpret results / data

· Interpret a variety of information forms

· Use appropriate numerical information

· Use information critically and innovatively

· Use data as a tool in support of argument

· Translate data into words, visual images, concepts

· Evaluate and adopt strategies for handling data and information

Appendix 2: Job analysis

Date of review:

Job title:

Classification level:

Status:

(full /part time)

Duties and responsibilities

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Rating

1 Started but need more practice

2 Able to do this with some help

3 Competent without help

4 Competent and able to help others

Key skills required

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Qualifications

Rating

Personal attributes required

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Outline Organisation’s Policy and Procedures

Outline Organisation’s Plan