Individual Support - Aged Care Worker

CHC33015 Certificate III in Individual Support

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Get job ready in Individual Support!

This nationally accredited qualification in CHC33015 Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing) will guide you to provide person-centred care to those living with a disability or seniors who need assistance with their everyday life.

Help someone live their best life by enrolling into this course today!

With reasonable entry requirements and access to affordable payment options, it means you can learn and practice now.

Course Structure

The structure of this course is as follows:

 

During your course, we expect that you will:

  • Contribute to learning in a harmonious and positive manner irrespective of gender, race, sexual preference, political affiliation, marital status, disability or religious belief
  • Comply with the rules and regulations of the IST
  • Be honest and respectful, this includes not falsifying work or information and not conducting yourself in any way that may cause injury or offence to others.
  • Be responsible for your own learning and development by participating actively and positively and by ensuring that you maintain progress with learning modules.
  • Monitor your own progress by ensuring that assessment deadlines are observed.
  • Utilise facilities and IST publications with respect and to honour our copyrights and prevent our publication from being distributed to unauthorised persons.

Course Subjects

Core units

  • HLTWHS002 Follow Safe Work Practices for Direct Client Care
  • HLTAAP001 Recognise healthy body systems
  • CHCCOM005 Communicate and work in health or community services
  • CHCLEG001 Work legally and ethically
  • CHCCCS023 Support independence and wellbeing
  • CHCDIV001 Work with diverse people
  • CHCCCS015 Provide individualised support

Elective units

CHCCOM002 Use communication to build relationships
CHCLEG003 Manage legal and ethical compliance
CHCCCS011 Meet personal support needs
CHCAGE005 Provide support to people living with dementia
HLTAID003 Provide first aid
HLTINF001 Comply with infection prevention and control policies and procedures

Career & Education Pathways

Once you graduate, you’ll have the knowledge and skills to kick-start your career as a:

  • Aged Care Worker
  • Disability Support Worker
  • Support worker
  • Personal caregiver
  • Respite care worker
  • Disability service worker
  • Accommodation support worker
  • Home Care Assistant
  • Aged care support worker
  • Care assistant

Entry Requirements

There are no academic entry requirements for this qualification. Students are required to provide their Unique Student Identifier (USI) which we can assist with, photo identification and meet the language, literacy and numeracy requirements.

Eligibility

Please refer to this page for eligibility https://www.ist.edu.au/jobs-skills-wa/