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Certificate III in Individual Support (SA/Regional VIC Only)

Study Method Blended, Online
Provider Warner Institute
Recognition ASQA, Australian Qualifications Framework, Nationally Recognised Training
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Start your career in aged care or disability support with us!

  • Interest-free payment plans available

  • We’ll support and arrange your practical placement

  • Australian Citizens, New Zealand Citizens, Permanent Residents and some Visa holders are eligible to enrol

  • Government funding available for eligible students

Course overview

The Certificate III in Individual Support will give you the core skills and knowledge you need, to start a meaningful career supporting clients in the Aged Care & Disability sectors.

This course delivery includes the Ageing specialisation, providing specific skills to improve the care you can provide for ageing clients, such as:

  • Supporting with personal care activities

  • Recognising falls risks,

  • Communicating with carers and families to maintain their engagement,

  • Understanding the framework around a palliative approach to care and support.


If you're looking for a career with personally rewarding outcomes, or want to get qualified so you can do more at work, this course will help you meet your goals.

Who's It For?

This course is designed for people who are:

  1. working in the aged care or disability sector but are not yet qualified, or

  2. want to start a rewarding career in aged care or disability support

You might have plenty of transferable skills from previous roles in retail, hospitality, or life skills from raising your family or caring for your own loved ones - so don't count youself out.
Give us a call and we'll help you decide if this is the right next step for you.

Job outcomes

  • Personal Care Assistant

  • Community Care Worker

  • Disability Support Worker

  • Activities Assistant

  • Assistant in Nursing

Want to see more job outcomes and how your future could change?

What you'll learn

You’ll be able to more skillfully and confidently:

  • Connect with your clients using a person-centred mindset

  • Foster your client’s independence and wellbeing

  • Identify and encourage participation in meaningful activities

  • Follow an individualised plan to provide reassurance to clients with dementia, to relieve distress, agitation and address identified behaviour(s)

  • Recognising how social, cultural, and spiritual differences influence your

    interactions with clients

  • Understand how knowing the health status of a client enables you to promote

    and maintain health

  • Provide individualised and compassionate end-of-life care

  • Provide personal care supports to your clients in a manner that maintains their

    respect and dignity

  • Understand the importance of self-care, and when and how you should seek

    support for your own wellbeing

  • How to safely support clients with dose administration medications

    in accordance with organisational and legislative requirements

  • Recognise potential risk of falls and communicate strategies to reduce this with

    your client, superviser, carer and family

Recognitions

ASQA

Australian Skills Quality Authority

Australian Qualifications Framework

This course is approved by the Australian Qualifications Framework.

Nationally Recognised Training

This is a nationally approved vocational course that is recognised throughout Australia

Study method

  • Blended Blended info icon
    Blended delivery - both online course content and partial face to face requirements
  • Online Online info icon
    Online delivery - online course content with the exception of assessments and work placement
  • In-class In-class info icon
    In class delivery - predominately face to face course content conducted at a specific location
  • Virtual Virtual info icon
    Virtual Delivery - Live and interactive classroom-style learning conducted completely online

Locations

  • South Australia
  • Victoria

Duration study load

Classes:
Over 9 months, you'll attend scheduled learning sessions (online) one day per week.
You'll also have 2 x practical sessions, face-to-face in one of our Regional or Metropolitan hubs.

Homework:
You'll need approximately 3-4 hours a week to study and complete your written assessment work.

Placement:
This course requires 120 hours of practical placement or relevant work.

Delivery

Blended Delivery:
Learning sessions are held in our interactive online classroom, hosted on Microsoft Teams.

Practical face-to-face sessions are held in our Metropolitan or Regional hubs, where you'll get to practice physical tasks and use manual handling equipment before you go on placement.

Placement:
During your practical placement, or relevant work hours, we'll complete workplace observation assessment with you.

Entry requirements

Mandated entry requirements:
There are no mandated entry requirements for this course.

Warner Institute requirements:

  1. Students must be 18 years or over at the beginning of the course

  2. Students must be Australian Citizens, New Zealand citizens, Permanent Residents, or on an approved Visa to enrol

  3. Students must be able to meet industry requirements such as:
    -Provide a clear and current police check
    -Provide an NDIS Worker Screening Check,
    -Provide evidence of industry-required vaccination

Find out more about the entry requirements for this course

Course features

Whole Person Learning
This course is delivered using the Warner Institute Whole Person Learning Model - learning that grows you as a person, not just academically.

You'll take away real world skills that transition into the workplace, so that you're an asset on placement, and readily employable.

Learn Earn Pathway
If you're not working in a relevant role, we'll connect you to our network of Learn Earn Employers so you can start working while you're studying.

This means that you can consolidate your classroom learning by implementing it at work - and may mean that you don't need to fit in as much practical placement.

Student Support
You'll have access to soft skills (learning) support with our internal Wellbeing Team, as well as academic support from your qualified and professional Course Manager (trainer).

Blended Learning
This course is the perfect mix of online (with scheduled live online sessions) and practical, so you're fully supported whilst you learn flexibly.

Work placement

This course requires 120 hours of practical placement or relevant work.

We’ll organise your supervised work placement if you need it - your roster for unpaid placement will be negotiated with your approved host placement provider; generally, this will be full days, five days per week.

Assessment

You'll be assessed using a range of methods that accommodate all adult learning styles, including:

  • written theory assessment
    this includes question and answer, case studies, and workplace documentation style questions

  • class participation

  • simulation activities & role plays (online)

  • practical & simulation activities (face-to-face sessions)

  • workplace observation assessment

Materials

What will you need?
You will require access to a computer or laptop and a reliable internet connection and capacity to stream video with audio for interactive online classroom sessions, including any catch-up sessions.

  • Please note that iPads and tablets are not suitable equipment to undertake this Course.

  • You will be required to log on for the duration of each session with your camera activated, and microphone available.‍

  • You'll need to use Microsoft Word to complete your assessments.


Learning resources:
You'll access your learning resources and assessment materials via our online Learner Management System (LMS).
Your student portal contains all of your enrolment information so you can see your progress at any time.

Subjects

Core Units
CHCCCS031Provide individualised support
CHCCCS038Facilitate the empowerment of people receiving support
CHCCCS040Support independence and wellbeing
CHCCCS041Recognise healthy body systems
CHCCOM005Communicate and work in health or community services
CHCDIV001Work with diverse people
CHCLEG001Work legally and ethically
HLTINF006Apply basic principles and practices of infection prevention and control
HLTWHS002Follow safe work practices for direct client care
Elective Units
CHCAGE011Provide support to people living with dementia
CHCAGE013Work effectively in aged care
CHCPAL003Deliver care services using a palliative approach
CHCDIS020Work effectively in disability support
CHCAGE007Recognise and report risk of falls
CHCCCS036Support relationships with carer and family

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Payment options

  • Materials and Tuition fees may be paid up-front or via interest-free payment plans with Debit Success.

  • Government funding is available for eligible students under the Skills First Program (Victoria).

  • Warner Institute does not accept pre-payment of fees greater than $1500.

Find out more about the payment options for this course

About Warner Institute

Since 2005, we’ve supported our students to gain the qualifications they need so that they can take the ‘next-step’ in their lives, and we’ve supported organisations to build their teams to confidently support their clients and community.

With high quality learning that transitions into the workplace, engaging you as a whole person, you’ll be in the best position to achieve your career and personal goals when you study with Warner Institute. 

Our unique Whole Person Learning Model understands that each person is unique
and learns differently. It is designed so that you’ll grow in self awareness, confidence & resilience, becoming empowered to deliver your new best practice skills and knowledge learned as part of their courses.

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