Maybe you are the one friends call when help is needed. This course covers personal care, dementia support, infection control and client rights. Placement hours sit inside it, in aged care or disability work.
Care work is short of people and hiring now.
Ageing and disability settings, both covered.
Zoom practice sessions and study buddies come with it.
These skills are wanted right across care. The work is easy to picture: showers, meals, medication rounds, and sitting with someone who wants company.
Daily support inside a residential home.
Help someone live the week they want.
Showering, dressing and moving safely.
Support people in their own homes.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Support roles need clearance checks, and senior roles ask for more study or years on the job.
The rules first, then the care, then the person.
Three things worth knowing before you start.
A Work Placement Officer helps if you cannot find a host.
Support people living with dementia is a topic.
Care at the end of life is covered with care.
Studied with an ageing and disability focus
Certificate III in Individual Support, on the register.
At least 120 hours of direct support work.
Residential aged care and community care.
How the hours work, and where you can do them.
Police check and working with children clearance.
Upfront, or spread with no set-up fee.
Begin the theory while checks come through.
None. There are no formal entry requirements.
A police check, a working with children check, and NDIS screening for NDIS work.
At least 120 hours of support work. You source a host, and the Work Placement Officer helps if you cannot.
Once most of the theory is behind you.
Most students take twelve to eighteen months.
Yes. CHC33021 Certificate III in Individual Support is on the national register, studied here with an ageing and disability focus.
Yes, fortnightly or monthly, with no set-up fee.
Upskilled is a Registered Training Organisation, RTO number 40374.
Community services trainers run the sessions, with support before and after you enrol.
Picture the morning someone waits for you, because you turn up.