This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to work in a community safety services role. People work in these contexts using effective communication and knowledge of communities and cultural contexts, job roles, role responsibilities and organisational procedures to complete their work activities.

Community safety services workers are generally drawn from local communities because of their connections to local communities, fluency in a specific language, family and kinship relationships within the community, knowledge of and respect for traditional culture, and capacity to interact in the wider community.

This unit applies to individuals working under the supervision and guidance of others in community safety services roles in Australia.

The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State or Territory legislation, Australian standards and industry codes of practice.

No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.