Whether you help someone at home now or want a first job in care, this could be it. You'll learn to care for older people and for people with disability. Study is online and at your own pace, plus hours in a care service.
If you can't decide between aged care and disability work, you won't have to. The units cover both, so you'll finish able to apply for either kind of service.
Maybe you already help someone at home and want that to count for something. You'll put a name and a method to the things you do each day, and a certificate behind them.
The course is online with your units open at any hour, and there are no semester intakes. You'll pick a twelve or eighteen month pace and start whenever you're ready.
Support work sits in homes, care homes, group houses and day programs. A shift is personal care, meals, getting out and about, and careful notes.
Help someone run their own day, at home or out in the community.
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 first, then the care itself, then your placement hours.
Three things that shape this one.
This one carries the aged care units and the disability units side by side. That means you'll leave with a wider field of services to apply to, instead of picking a lane before you've worked a shift.
There's a full unit on supporting people living with dementia, and another on care at the end of life. So the hardest shifts won't be your first time seeing them.
Rebekah, Melissa and Paris have worked aged care, hospitals and disability support between them. So the questions you bring from placement get answered by someone who has stood where you're standing.
Studied across ageing and disability
Certificate III in Individual Support, on the national register.
The units are chosen for work with older people and people with disability.
A minimum of one hundred and sixty hours in a service, on your record.
Say whether aged care, disability or both appeal to you.
An advisor covers units, hours and fees.
Upfront, or a weekly plan.
You'll work through your units online at your own pace.
None is needed, and the course starts from the first shift. If you've cared for someone at home already, that will help.
Yes, a minimum of one hundred and sixty hours, and they sit on top of your weekly study.
The course guide lists the suitable workplaces for this course, so download it and talk it through with your advisor.
That's the point of this stream. The units cover work with older people and work with people living with disability.
Not one. Open book quizzes, written tasks, videos and practical activities, with some role plays where you'll need a hand from others.
Twelve or eighteen months, depending on the pace you pick.
Yes. CHC33021 Certificate III in Individual Support is on the national register, and the college teaches it with both the ageing and disability units.
Any time you like. There are no semester intakes, so once you've enrolled you can log in and begin the same day.
Open Colleges delivers this course online, from Australia.
You'll learn from trainers with years of aged care, nursing and disability support experience.
Picture the morning two very different people are glad it's you at the door.