If you are weighing up childcare as a career, start small. Five short credentials cover frameworks, safety, play and babies. It was made for people testing the water.
Childcare suits some people and not others. Five short credentials let you find out first. No long course needed yet.
Approved learning frameworks shape every centre in the country. Knowing how to work with one is the base of the job.
Children at risk, health, wellbeing and safe environments each get covered. That part is not optional in this field.
Childcare is a field people usually enter at the edges. A helper role or nanny job is a normal way in. Many study further alongside it.
Cares for children in a family home setting.
Supports qualified educators through the daily routine.
Helps run play and activity programs for children.
Roles are examples of where these skills are used. They are not promised outcomes. Most centre roles need a nationally recognised qualification. A working with children check applies too.
Five stacked credentials, a pathway toward further study, and no exams.
Credit may be available toward a nationally recognised Certificate III. That is in Early Childhood Education and Care, through a partner RTO.
Caring for babies and toddlers is separate work. It has its own credential here rather than a paragraph.
One topic covers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Centres expect that understanding from day one.
Awarded on completion of the bundle
CPD endorsed and recognised by employers.
Issued once the whole bundle is finished.
Credit toward further early childhood study may be available. A partner RTO handles it.
Ask for the course guide and see all five credentials.
An advisor explains the study pathway from here.
Pay upfront or spread it weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
Open the first credential and work at your pace.
None is needed. The bundle starts with learning frameworks and builds from there.
Around 220 study hours across five credentials. Access is unlimited, so the pace is yours.
Plans start from $29 a week, paid weekly, fortnightly or monthly. No deposit and no credit check apply.
The bundle gives you a solid grounding and a credential to show. Most centre roles need a nationally recognised early childhood qualification as well. Many people use this as the step before that course.
The credentials are CPD endorsed and recognised by employers. Neither college is an RTO here, so it is not nationally recognised. Credit toward further study may be available through a partner RTO.
Online Courses Australia delivers it. You enrol through The Career Academy.
Through activities inside each credential. There are no exams.
A ten day money back guarantee applies from enrolment. Contact the college inside that window.
You enrol through The Career Academy, an online college. Over fifteen years of teaching sit behind it. It reports more than twenty five thousand students a year. Online Courses Australia delivers this bundle as an education partner.
One morning in a room of four year olds tells you.