Whether you hold your Certificate IV or are coming in fresh, this diploma is the step up. You learn case management, service programs, crisis response and advocacy. Placement gets organised for you, and study is built for a working week.
This is the level where you hold the plan. You assess needs, design the support, and review how it lands. It is the common step into coordination.
Team leader, coordinator and manager roles start here. You learn service programs, debriefing, and how to keep a service inside the law.
One live class a week by video, the rest self-paced. Placement is arranged near home where possible, in blocks you can plan for.
These are the coordinating roles in community services. You hold a caseload, run a program, or lead a small team. The work is easy to picture: planning support with someone, checking it works, and pulling in the right services.
Holding the plan for a person and reviewing how it is going.
Running a program and the people who deliver it.
Supporting the workers who support the clients.
Coordinating support around a whole family.
Keeping people housed and services joined up.
Reaching people who will not come through a front door.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role and employer is different, and some ask for more study or experience.
Twenty units cover case work, service design, culture, counselling skills and the law.
Three things carry this diploma: a placement organised for you, trainers you see weekly, and backing when it is time to go for the role.
Every eligible learner gets 100 placement hours arranged, coordinated within 30 km of home where possible. It is an organised placement, not a job offer.
Facilitating and reviewing case management, assessing co-existing needs, and building service programs. This is what coordinators do daily.
Live group sessions each week, monthly one-on-one mentoring, and trainer replies within 72 hours on business days.
CHC52025, delivered by a registered training organisation
CHC52025 is nationally recognised training at level 5. It supersedes the older CHC52021 Diploma of Community Services.
100 supervised hours inside a working service, taken as 20 hours a week across five weeks.
Resume polishing, cover letters, and help finding the right role, from the day studies commence.
Ask for the course guide. It takes a minute and costs nothing.
A pre-training review by phone checks the course fits you.
Accept your place, log in, and join the first live session.
Complete your 100 placement hours and graduate at diploma level.
You do not need a Certificate IV first. You need to be 18 or over, with the right to work and study in Australia, and reading, writing and numeracy checked at level 4 before you enrol. You also need sound computer skills, a laptop or desktop with reliable internet, and a police check or the willingness to get one.
17 months, stated as 73 weeks. The published volume of learning is 1,584 hours in total, which includes live sessions, self-paced study, assessment and placement.
From $77 a week, interest-free. You can pay weekly, pay fortnightly, or pay upfront.
Every eligible enrolled learner gets an organised placement of 100 hours, arranged within 30 km of home where possible. It runs as 20 hours a week across five weeks, inside a working service. Some of your assessment happens while you are there. The college organises the placement, not a job offer.
You may need a Working with Children Check or your state equivalent, a valid police check, an NDIS screening check where it applies, and proof of required immunisations. The college walks you through this before you start.
Written tasks, case studies, projects, workplace activities and simulations, and online theory assessments. Part of your assessment happens during the supervised placement.
This qualification can attract funding or a state subsidy through a government TAFE or an approved contracted provider. This college is private, so its courses are not eligible for state subsidies or VET Student Loans. What you get instead is the online format, the organised placement, and interest-free plans.
Yes. CHC52025 Diploma of Community Services is nationally recognised training at level 5, delivered by a registered training organisation, RTO 45162. It supersedes the older CHC52021. You can view the registration at training.gov.au.
The CHC62015 Advanced Diploma of Community Sector Management is the step the college names for community-sector management.
Cancel before, or within 3 days of, being accepted and you get a full refund. After that point there is no refund, and you stay liable for the full course fee if you withdraw. If the college cannot deliver what it agreed to, you get a refund for the part not delivered.
Hader Institute of Education is a registered training organisation in Armadale, Victoria. It teaches community services, mental health, counselling and youth work. Students rate the college 4.9 out of 5 across more than 850 Google reviews.
Picture the case meeting where it is your plan on the table, and it is working.