Maybe you already help an older relative through the day. You learn personal care, safe practice, dementia support and infection control. The college books your hours in a service near home.
Showers, meals, mobility, company and careful notes.
The college books your hours through SkilTrak, near home.
Trainers who have worked aged care, disability and palliative wards.
Aged care work sits in homes, residential services and day programs. A shift is personal care, meals, company and notes.
Help with showers, dressing, meals and moving about.
Support daily routines in a home or a service.
Look after people living in a care home.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Services set their own hiring rules. Most ask for a police check.
Safe practice, then the care itself, then your placement hours.
Three things that shape this one.
A full unit on supporting people living with dementia.
A minimum of one hundred and sixty hours beside older people.
Hold a current first aid certificate and it credits across.
Studied with an ageing focus
Certificate III in Individual Support, on the national register.
The units are chosen for work with older people.
A minimum of one hundred and sixty hours in a service.
Say whether you want home care or a service.
An advisor covers units, hours and fees.
Upfront, in four, or a weekly plan.
Study begins while placement is booked.
Yes. CHC33021 Certificate III in Individual Support.
The register title is Certificate III in Individual Support. The units here are the ageing ones. The college names that stream on its page.
Yes, a minimum of one hundred and sixty hours.
The college does, through SkilTrak, close to home.
Yes. The hours sit outside your weekly study blocks.
Not one. Open book tasks, portfolios and practical work.
Bring it in. The first aid unit can be credited across.
Twelve or eighteen months, depending on the pace you pick.
Open Colleges delivers this course online, from Australia.
Work placement is arranged with SkilTrak, near where you live.
Picture the morning someone waits for you by the door.