Certificate IV in Correctional Practice - CSC40115

TasTAFE

Type of institution: TAFE Institute
Level: Pre-degree
CRICOS: 03041M

This qualification is part of the Correctional Services Training Package. It covers the competencies allowing experienced staff to reflect advanced practice and greater team leadership roles. It allows staff to achieve recognition for specialist organisational roles and for pathways into management roles and cross-sector specialisations.

Structure

12 units: 4 core
1 unit
7 elective

Subjects

Support group activities
Provide support to offenders in Aboriginal and Torres Strait communities
Assist offenders to change drug and alcohol use
Contribute to workplace safety
Lead team effectiveness
Conduct interviews
Contribute to work unit planning
Select dogs
Provide emergency response to dangerous incidents
Manage conflict through negotiation
Train dogs in agility work
Develop work priorities
Protect the safety and welfare of vulnerable offenders
Supervise community work programs
Establish and monitor a case plan
Maintain the health, safety and welfare of offenders
Establish and maintain networks
Assist offenders to change behaviour
Undertake case management
Manage dogs for security purposes
Support offender to maintain positive relationships
Manage own professional development in responding to domestic and family violence
Gather and report complex information
Prepare stimulus aids for use with dogs
Manage security
Monitor performance and provide feedback
Maintain the health and welfare of dogs
Assess offender risks and needs
Prepare, maintain and test response equipment
Report to a formal inquiry
Recognise and respond appropriately to domestic and family violence
Treat operational risk
Work effectively with people with a disability
Implement planned approach to offender management
Coordinate a work team
Plan and monitor escorts
Use firearms
Identify risk and apply risk management processes
Provide workplace mentoring
Manage threatening behaviour
Participate in incident briefing, debriefing and analysis
Monitor control room operations
Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices
Protect the safety and welfare of Aboriginal and Torres Strait offenders
Lead effective workplace relationships
Work effectively with culturally diverse offenders and colleagues
Train detector dogs
Work effectively in mental health
Prepare reports for justice agencies
Train dogs for response and control
Provide brief intervention
Monitor and review security systems
Manage complex supervision
Provide guidance and counsel
Protect and preserve incident scene
Supervise occupational health and safety practices
Organise and chair meetings
Negotiate behaviour change
Provide support services to clients