As a care worker you are required to comply with all the legal requirements and ethical responsibilities relevant to your work role. This project will assess your knowledge and skills to ensure you are prepared to take on this aspect of your role in a real life care environment setting.

Project 1 will require you to identify these relevant legal requirements and ethical responsibilities through a set of written questions and tasks.

Task 1

Review the different legal requirements that apply to Care Workers. Select three that you find most useful and relevant to your role as a Care Worker. Complete the table below.

Guidance: Name the legislation and/or identify the section in the legislation from where the you have accessed the legal requirement you identified. Write response here under the 'Source/s' column of the table below.

Legal requirement	How does this requirement apply to you as a Care worker?	Source/s

Task 2

Aside from understanding the different legal requirements you must comply with, it is also important that you know the scope and nature of your own legal rights and responsibilities as a care worker. This helps ensure that you not only protect your clients, but also yourself.

Review your legal rights and responsibilities as a care worker, and complete the table below:

1. List three legal rights of care workers and describe how they apply to the scope of your role
2. List three legal responsibilities of care workers and describe how they apply to the scope of your role

LegalRights of a Care Worker
List three legal rights of care workers	Explain how these rights apply to the scope of your role as a care worker
Legal Responsibilities of a Care Worker
List three legal responsibilities of care workers	Explain how these responsibilities apply to the scope your role as a care worker

Task 3

Review the different ethical requirements that apply to Care Workers.

1. Select two that you find most useful and relevant to your role as a Care Worker. Complete the table provided below.
2. List two sources of information about these ethical responsibilities

Ethical requirement	How does this requirement apply to you as a Care worker?
Sources of information