Advocacy
Advocacy is the desire and determination to champion a cause or issue and try to get others to support it. It recognizes the importance of amplifying the voices of the person/family and creating space for them to advocate on their own behalf.
Building relationships is about intentionally collaborating to develop meaningful relationships with people supported, co-workers, families, community partners and other stakeholders. It is about seeking opportunities to create collaborative partnerships to meet mutual goals.
From a sustainability perspective, building relationships is about fostering past relationships, understanding the current context and how to ensure reciprocal satisfaction. It also means anticipating future possibilities of partnerships.
This Core Competency is about being flexible and adaptable to changing environments to work effectively with various people and groups. It involves an open mindset to understand, appreciate and empathize with different and opposing perspectives. It is about having a clear vision for change and communicating this in a way that all people are included and understand what the change means to them. It involves demonstrating a personal commitment to change through actions and words.
This competency is about facilitating self-directed growth and development. It fosters self determination and independence. It intentionally supports the long-term learning or development of others through coaching, recognition, encouragement, and feedback.
Leadership is about organizing people and processes toward accomplishing a goal. This is done through coaching, mentoring, and motivating others towards a vision, commitments, and goals. Effective leaders foster an inclusive and positive environment.
Leaders consistently act and think with personal integrity, as well as with concern for, and sensitivity to, the fundamental values and ethics of the people receiving support/families, the agency/organization/sector and the profession.
It includes the capacity for sound ethical judgement in a diverse and ethically complex environment, and in the face of ongoing pressures and constraints to continually promote excellence.
Problem Solving and Decision Making is the demonstration of behaviours that enable one to identify and solve problems by understanding the situation, seeking additional information, developing and weighing alternatives, and choosing the most appropriate course of action. It involves the willingness to, and demonstration of, behaviours associated with taking a creative approach to problems or issues. It includes “thinking outside of the box” to go beyond the conventional, and to explore creative use of resources.
Resilience involves maintaining stamina and performance under continued stress and to act effectively under pressure. It includes bouncing back from disappointments or confrontations, and not letting them negatively influence ongoing performance. It involves keeping one’s emotions under control and restraining negative responses when provoked .It includes expressing or resolving stressful situations in an appropriate way that doesn’t harm self or others.
Resource Management is the capacity to plan, effectively leverage and optimize resources (people, processes, financial resources, technology etc.). It means that resources are allocated efficiently to provide high quality support. This includes human resource management, which ensures that people have the right skills, capabilities, behaviours, and tools.
Strategic thinking requires initiative, which is the ability to independently decide what to do and when to do it without relying on someone else’s direction for short and long-term impacts.
People who demonstrate strategic thinking take initiative to thoughtfully respond to current situations and are able to proactively anticipate future opportunities and challenges while ensuring a person directed approach.
It is understanding trends and issues, and translating these into ideas, advice and activities that impact various stakeholders.
Valuing EDI uses social competence to understand and respect the practices, customs and values of all people and cultures. It is the ability to work effectively with a diverse community and be aware of current societal issues. It involves evaluating social situations and determining what is expected or required to recognize the feeling, intentions and lived experiences of others, and to select social behaviours that are most appropriate for that given context.
