Aged Care Work

• Course Overview

  Aged Care is an important and growing industry offering a range of rewarding career possibilities. You will learn about the aged care sector, how to communicate effectively and meaningfully with older people, the range of care and supports available to older people and how to provide a professional standard of care and support to older people. A career in the aged care sector may lead you to work in residential aged care facilities, in community services organisations, or within the health industry. People with this qualification work in a range of positions such as Assistant in Nursing, Community Support Worker, Accommodation Support Worker, Carer, In Home Respite Worker, Personal Care Worker, Home Care Assistant, Nursing Assistant, Community Care Worker, Field Officer, or Community House

• Course Guide

  - Qualification: Certificate III in Aged Care
  - National Code: CHC30208
  - Duration : 8 weeks(including 2 weeks work placement)
  - Delevery : internal or external
  - Coure hours : 09:00 ~ 15:00
  - Course Days : Mon, Tue, Wed(3 days a week)
  - Course materials : All course materials are provided
  - Enrolment dates : Enrol anytime - start now!
  - Assessment : By assignments + work placement

• Who is This Course for?

  This course is for people who work or want to work in the aged care sector in a range of residential aged care facilities in the community services and health industry.
  
  You will learn about the aged care sector, interviewing and communicating with older people, and providing care and support to older people within the residential facilities.
  
  You should be aware that if clinical placement in a public or private hospital or medical facility is part of this course, you may need to undergo occupational screening and be vaccinated against infectious diseases. Your teachers will give you further advice. Course including Apply first aid and manual handling course

• What Will I Learn?

  Gain the skills required to support and care for older people. Among other things, you'll learn how to:
  
  • provide personal care
  • provide support to an older person in the activities of daily living
  • support the older person to meet emotional and psychological needs
  • provide care support for individuals with dementia
  • work effectively with culturally diverse clients and colleagues
  • assist individuals with self medication
  
  Maximise your employability - combine this course with the Certificate III in Home and Community Care for a greater range of skills. Contact a SEEK Learning consultant now for more information.

• Course Structure

  There are 14 units to be completed in this aged care work course.
  
  • Support older people to maintain their independence
  • Work effectively with older people
  • Provide support to people living with dementia
  • Work effectively in the community sector
  • Provide support to meet personal care needs
  • Participate in the implementation of individual plans
  • Support individual health and emotional well being
  • Follow safety procedures for direct care work
  • Deliver care services using a palliative approach
  • Recognise healthy body systems in a health care context
  • Work effectively with culturally diverse clients and co-workers
  • Implement interventions with older people at risk of falls
  • Advocate for clients
  • Assist clients with medication

• Workplace Assessment

  Workplace training gives students the opportunity to develop practical job skills, such as interacting with people in a professional environment, developing communication skills, as well as an insight into particular job roles and responsibilities. Overall, students have found workplace training enhanced their chances of getting a job and succeeding at it.
  
  As a mandatory part of this course, students are required to seek workplace training. Workplace training and assessment is the gathering and evaluation of evidence during normal work activities in order to determine whether a required element within a competency has been achieved. Workplace assessment will entail a combination of recognition, observation, questioning, discussion and third party validation.
  
  Following this, all students are required to provide a signed Pre-Assessment Interview form, Workplace Assessment form, Record of Outcome form and also the Workplace Agreement form to verify they have successfully demonstrated the practical components of each of the required competency outcomes. A qualified manager/supervisor must sign the forms as validation.

• Career Opportunities

  - home care
  - community care
  - high care nursing homes
  - low care nursing homes
  - community organisations
  - local government
  - hostels