AN120505 – Social and Community Services Employees (State) Award
"Union" shall mean the Australian Services Union of New South Wales.
"Community Development Worker" shall mean a person employed to assess the needs of the community, stimulate community involvement in meeting those needs and implement programs and, in particular, education programs.
"Co-ordinator" shall mean an employee who is responsible for the overall administration and/or co- ordination of a service, agency or workplace of the employer and shall include, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, an employee who is responsible for the overall administration and/or co- ordination of:
(i) a multi-purpose Neighbourhood Centre including one that encompasses a child care facility;
(ii) a residential care service providing social support in a residential setting (including family group homes or institutional care for children) where such services are distinct from sessional care to pre-school children, long day care, extended hours care, twenty-four hours care, before and after school care, play groups, occasional care, vacation care and multi-purpose child care, but shall not include a person employed in a child care centre but shall exclude an employee whose duties are principally managerial/administrative and who is a member of the senior management team of a large multi-function organisation (other than a multi-purpose neighbourhood centre) which administers a range of services/facilities and workplaces.
"Developmental Disability" describes a chronic disability which:
(a) is attributable to an intellectual or physical impairment or combination of intellectual and physical impairments;
(b) is manifested before the person attains age 18;
(c) is likely to continue indefinitely;
(d) results in substantial functional limitation in three or more of the following areas of major life activity: self-care, receptive and expressive language, learning, mobility, self direction, capacity for independent living, economic self sufficiency; and
(e) reflects the person's need for a combination and sequence of special interdisciplinary or generic care, treatment or other services which are of lifelong or extended duration and are individually planned and co-ordinated.
For practical purposes this includes persons with an intellectual handicap, severe epilepsy, cerebral palsy, brain damage acquired in childhood and those with other neurological disorders needing similar provision.
"Information Officer" shall mean an employee who is responsible for collection and dissemination of information and the maintenance or organisation of information systems within a service.
"Project Officer" shall mean a person employed to develop or undertake a social welfare project or series of projects, where such employee is subject to minimal direction and supervision by another employee in performance of such work and is solely responsible for the outcomes of that particular project or projects.
"Research Officer" shall mean a person employed to develop or undertake a research project or series of projects where such employee is subject to minimal direction and supervision by another employee, in the performance of such research but shall not include an "Information Officer", "Project Officer", "Research Officer" as defined, who
(i) has post secondary qualifications requiring at least one year's full-time study in librarianship, archival management (however described, but including library technician qualifications) and is employed in work requiring the qualifications; or
(ii) is studying for a qualification referred to in (i) above and is employed in work which requires that such study is undertaken.
"Residential Care Worker" shall mean a person employed to provide welfare and social support services in refuges or residential care establishments, as distinct from persons engaged primarily in manual work in such services.
"Social Educator" shall mean a person employed in accommodation support services and residential care facilities to provide support and training to people with a developmental disability in the acquisition of social and independent living skills.
"Supervision" shall mean for the purpose of this Award:
(i) "Immediate supervision" - the direct responsibility to another employee at the workplace in the performance of daily tasks;
(ii) "General supervision" - supervision of a broad set of tasks based more on self appraisal than daily direction of task performance and can include professional supervision.
"Vocational Educator" shall mean a person who provides support and training to people with a developmental disability in the acquisition of skills including community access, independent living, employment and social skills.
