Elements and Performance Criteria
- Review existing policies
- Identify relevant organisation and other policies and assess them for relevance to the organisations objectives and effectiveness
- Consult clients and other stakeholders about their views on policies
- Document and present reviews of policies in a format appropriate to the purpose of the review, the context, and the receiver
- Contribute to research for policy advice
- Identify, plan and implement research and consultation strategies appropriate to the worker's role in the research process within timeframes, resource constraints and agreed processes
- Collate, report and present research and consultation outcomes in a format appropriate to the research process, the purpose of the research, the context and the receiver
- Identify factors impacting on quality or outcomes of research or consultation and incorporate in reports
- Provide briefing materials on policy issues
- Promote informed policy debate
- Identify strategies to stimulate informed debate appropriate to the worker's role in policy development, community education or client service delivery in consultation with other workers and management
- Implement strategies to stimulate informed debate within timeframes, resource allocations and agreed processes
- Where necessary, implement strategies to translate policy materials into language/s easily understood by clients and other stakeholders
- Develop strategies that enable exchange of views and information between policy initiators, clients and other stakeholders