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Course Objectives

The CHC40108 — Certificate in Aged Care course is designed to equip you to provide physical and social support to elderly individuals and people with a psychological disability in hostels, group homes and community settings. With a strong practical focus, you will be taught the basic skills required in such a career, including:

• How to communicate appropriately with clients and colleagues,
• How to deliver the best service to your clients, and
• How to support group activities.

Undertaking this course will also allow you to specialize in areas such as providing care and support to aged people with disabilities.

This training is based on the National Community Services/Aged Care competency Standards and reflects nationally endorsed industry requirements.

Career Opportunities

This course provides training for aged care workers in hostels, nursing homes, group homes, private homes, labor market programs for the aged and health related programs for the aged.

We are being invited to place students in hospital environments and they are being employed in hospitals to provide personal care for patients in acute medical/surgical wards and in palliative care situations. This certificate enables people to gain employment in Home and Community Care funded agencies who have frail aged and younger people with disabilities in their client group.

Course Content / Structure

There are fourteen units of competency which make up a CHC40108 — Certificate IV in Aged Care. Competency is required in all 15 units. There are eleven compulsory units and four electives*.

Industry Placement

Placement of 120 hours are required if students work in the industry and do not hold a Certificate III in Aged Care Work. 

Placement of 160 hours are required if students do not work in the industry and do not hold a Certificate III in Aged Care Work.

Placement hours are not required for students that hold a Certificate III in Aged Care Work and are currently working in the Industry.

For further information on Industry Placement hours, please phone Pragmatic Training's Aged Care Department on 1800 155 486.

Assessment Methods

Competencies will be assessed based on your workplace demonstration of skills and knowledge, written assessments and classroom activities.

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.

Selection Criteria

It is recommended that students have a strong interest in this field of work.

Skills Recognition — Exemptions/Transfers

Students may be eligible for exemptions/transfers on the basis of previous qualifications.

Further Study Links

Participants successfully completing this course may apply for entry into Certificate IV in Health (Nursing), or Bachelor of Nursing.

Course Delivery Options

Flexible delivery options include classroom based, distance via correspondence and workplace based.

Fees and Charges

Contact Pragmatic Training for current fees and charges.

Qualification

As part of the Australian Qualifications Framework this program is nationally recognised. On successful completion students will be awarded the Certificate IV in Aged Care.