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Community Services Work - Diploma


Summary:This program provides you with the skills, techniques and theories in the area of community welfare. You will have the opportunity to gain practical experience in the field of community welfare. Graduates of this program are working as community welfare workers in health and community services fields

Qualification:Diploma of Community Services Work (CHC50608)
This qualification meets the requirements of the Community Services Training Package (CHC08 v1.1)

Program No:DP-HC10

Campus:

Accredited:Training Package currently endorsed

Application Method:
Courses on Offer

Remember! Completing this application form does not guarantee you a place in the course you have chosen. You have completed an application to enrol only.


Availability:Student intake offered in Semester 1

Delivery Mode:4 semesters full-time (approx. 25 hours per week) OR part-time equivalent

Job Opportunities:Manager/advanced skills community welfare worker in the health and community services field - including children's services, family support, women's and men's services, residential and non-residential

Entry Requirements:  You must:
- have the Certificate IV in Community Services Work or be able to demonstrate equivalent skills and knowledge
OR
- have at least one year of full-time equivalent relevant work experience in the industry including being able to demonstrate sufficient responsibility to exercise discretionary judgement and decision making under general guidance

Subjects:

To gain the Diploma of Community Services Work you must successfully complete the following.

Subject

Course No

Title

Nat/State

Complete all

PSYC

181

Applied psychology II

HUSE

424 

Casework II 

 

HUSE 

426 

Counselling II

 

LEGL 

187 

Legal and ethical issues in practice 

 

MGNT 

 

660 

 

Organisations and management 

 

 

HUSE 

 

434 

 

Policy and advocacy 

 

 

WELF

 

412 

 

Planning and conducting group activities 

 

 

WELF

 

417 

 

Research, evaluation and evidence-based practice 

 

 

SOCI 

 

109 

 

Sociology of practice 

 

 

WELF 

 

423 

 

Work based project 

 

 

WELF 

 

406 

 

Community development strategies

 

 

WELF

 

410 

 

Placement II (community services work)