If you want to stand beside people through addiction and recovery, this is the way in. You learn assessment, brief interventions, treatment plans and co-existing needs. Study online around shifts, with one evening class a week, made for working people.
Addiction pulls families apart, and the right support helps put them back together. This is work where you see the difference you make.
If you already work in care or community roles, this adds the skills for AOD work: assessment, interventions and treatment plans.
The live class runs one evening a week and the rest is yours to schedule. There are no placement hours to fit in.
AOD workers sit in detox units, outreach teams, community health and intake desks. The work is easy to picture: listening without judgement, working out what someone needs, and staying with them through it.
$75,000 to $90,000 on the college's published ranges.
$75,000 to $92,000 on the college's published ranges.
$75,000 to $90,000 on the college's published ranges.
$72,000 to $88,000 on the college's published ranges.
$70,000 to $85,000 on the college's published ranges.
$75,000 to $90,000 on the college's published ranges.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Salary figures are the college's published ranges, and every role and employer differs.
Seventeen units cover AOD work, mental health, culture and safe practice.
Three things carry this course: trainers you see every week, practical work built into the study, and support that keeps checking in.
Three hours with your trainer and group by video, in the evening. Monthly one-on-one mentoring runs alongside that, by phone or video.
Around 25 role plays run through realistic workplace situations, some led by your assessor. It is how the tough conversations get easier.
Practical assessments are simulated, so there are no placement hours to organise around work or family.
CHC43215, delivered by a registered training organisation
CHC43215 is nationally recognised training at level 4, delivered by a registered training organisation.
Around 25 role plays built on workplace situations, so you have run the conversations before you have them for keeps.
Resume polishing, cover letters, and help finding the right role, from the day studies commence.
Send a pre-enrolment application by phone or online. It takes a minute.
A quick online literacy and numeracy quiz checks the course suits you.
A pre-training interview by phone walks you through what to expect.
Your letter of acceptance and login details arrive, and you begin.
You do not need any AOD work behind you. You need to be 18 or over, with the right to work and study in Australia. Your reading, writing and numeracy is checked at level 3 before you start. You also need sound computer skills, including intermediate Microsoft Word, with a laptop or desktop and reliable internet.
12 months, and you set the weekly pace. Plan on around 15 hours a week of self-paced study, plus the weekly live class.
From $48 a week, interest-free. You can pay weekly, pay fortnightly, or pay upfront.
There is no placement to arrange, so no work hours have to fit around your job. Practical assessments are simulated instead, with around 25 role plays based on workplace situations. Some run with your assessor, and they cover the conversations the job asks for.
Written tasks, case studies, practical activities and demonstrations, and role plays based on workplace situations. There are no exams.
Not through this college. It is a private online provider, so its courses are not eligible for state subsidies or VET Student Loans. What you get instead is the online format, the weekly live class, and interest-free payment plans.
Yes. You can apply for recognition of prior learning against the units in this course. The learner handbook sets out how it works.
Yes. HLTAID011 Provide first aid is completed outside this course. You supply a valid first aid certificate for credit transfer before you finish.
Yes. CHC43215 Certificate IV in Alcohol and Other Drugs is nationally recognised training at level 4, delivered by a registered training organisation, RTO 45162. You can view the registration at training.gov.au.
Many graduates step up to the CHC53215 Diploma of Alcohol and Other Drugs. Others add mental health with the dual Certificate IV, which pairs CHC43315 with CHC43215.
Cancel before, or within 3 days of, being accepted and you get a full refund. After that point there is no refund.
Hader Institute of Education is a registered training organisation in Armadale, Victoria. It teaches mental health, alcohol and other drugs, counselling and community services. Students rate the college 4.9 out of 5 across more than 850 Google reviews.
Picture the day someone tells you they are still clean, and you were part of it.