Course overview
The activities that clients in the aged care, health, and community services sectors take part in can have an extremely positive impact on their daily lives. Get the skills to make a difference.
As you progress through the course content, you’ll learn by working for a fictitious care facility. You’ll be introduced to a range of fictitious colleagues and be faced with a variety of situations you may encounter in a real life workplace. You will put the knowledge you learn into practice with a 120-hour work placement.
The wide range of electives available within this course allows you to tailor your learning to the sector you already, or hope to, work in.
Job outcomes
- Activities Officer
- Aged Care Activities Officer
- Lifestyle Assistant
- Lifestyle Coordinator
- Lifestyle Officer
- Recreation Activities Coordinator
- Recreation Activities Officer
- Recreation Group Leader
- Resident Activities Officer
Recognition
Study method
- Online
- Blended
- In-class
Duration study load
- Maximum 18 months
Entry requirements
Education
- There are no formal education entry requirements for this course.
Minimum age
- You will need to be at least 18 years old.
English
- This course involves reading learning content and undertaking a range of written assessments and engaging in online forums and discussions. Furthermore, the delivery mode relies on the extensive use of written communication. As such, entry to the course requires the successful completion of English to Year 12 level.
- If you haven’t successfully completed English at Year 12 level, you can demonstrate equivalency through one of the following:
- Successful completion of a Nationally Recognised Training qualification at Certificate III level or higher; or
- 3 years relevant industry experience in a role that requires the use of written documentation and communication
Work placement
The course contains a minimum of 120 hours of work placement
Workplaces suitable to undertaken structured work placement include:
- Residential aged care facilities
- Respite care facilities
- Day care centres
- Home care environments
- Community support settings
- Rehabilitation services
- Refuges
Your work place must meet certain criteria in regards to facilities, equipment and resources. Your workplace assessor will ascertain whether the workplace is appropriate.
Assessment
- Case studies
- Logbook
- Matching answers
- Multiple choice questions
- Short-answer questions
- True/False questions
- Video
- Workplace Portfolios
- Written reports
Additional information
Open Colleges offers this qualification in association with Integrated Care & Management Training Pty Ltd (RTO: 90197). The testamur will be issued by Integrated Care & Management Training Pty Ltd.
Subjects
- Provide appropriate leisure and health services
- Operate within the policies and procedures of the leisure and health sector
- Communicate with clients and co-workers
- Address communication needs
- Facilitate meetings
- Reflect on own perspectives
- Appreciate diversity and inclusiveness, and their benefits
- Communicate with people from diverse backgrounds and situations
- Promote understanding across diverse groups
- Recognise and support individual differences
- Promote independence
- Support physical wellbeing
- Support social, emotional and psychological wellbeing
- Identify the lifespan developmental stages of the client
- Identify how the Australian social context of health might impact on client participation
- Identify how the Australian social context of leisure might impact on client participation
- Identify strategies for participation
About Open Colleges
Open Colleges puts you at the centre of everything. As an institution, it measures its success in the success of its students. With more than 100 years of experience in distance learning, Open Colleges has the expertise in delivering education and training to individuals seeking to launch, change or accelerate their careers.
Open Colleges Australia focuses on meeting the specific needs of adult learners by delivering highly flexible, accessible and affordable learning opportunities. Its unique learning model provides you with ultimate control – to study anywhere, anytime and at your own pace. Its online campus – OpenSpace – provides you with access to learning resources, expert trainers and assessors, collaboration with other learners and a comprehensive range of support services. Open Colleges is the perfect solution for time-poor students with busy schedules, as it makes getting your qualification possible from wherever you are.
Open Colleges is a Registered Training Organization (RTO 90796)
