CHC43015 Certificate IV in Ageing Support

• Care Assistant
• Community Care Worker
• Residential Care Worker
• Care team leader
• Assistant hostel supervisor
• Day activity worker
• Care supervisor

During this course you will learn:

• About the human body and how to support its healthy functioning
• How to facilitate the empowerment of older people
• The skills to meet personal client support needs
• How to tailor support to meet the needs of individual clients
• How dementia can affect a person, as well as strategies for communicating with, supporting and monitoring a client with dementia
• How to support client independence and wellbeing
• The tools to communicate and collaborate effectively with clients, their families and co-workers
• How to work effectively within the health and community care sector

• Practical Demonstration
• Short answers and scenarios
• Case study and extended answer
• Workplace logbook
• Presentations
• Clinical observation checklist

What is Clinical Placement?

A Clinical Placement is a mandatory part of your course where you learn in a live work environment at one of our partner care facilities. You will be supervised and conduct practical training and demonstrate a range of competencies. The placement is conducted for at least 120 hours and will occur towards the end of the course. It is usually completed in 3 weeks. Timings for each shift will be negotiated with the facility once the time arrives for you to commence placement. Your assessment schedule will highlight what you need to perform and demonstrate in the workplace.

What are the benefits?

By undertaking placement, you will get a chance to put the knowledge you have learned in your course into practice. You will also develop practical, on the job skills and consolidate your learning. Placement is often the most rewarding part of a student’s course. Working face-to-face with clients and colleagues in your chosen field and seeing what you are learning put into practice is challenging, yet exciting and makes a large difference to your career confidence.

If you study with us you will notice the quality of our industry expertise by our clinical placements. You will be able to choose to be placed within our network of clinical facilities from 50 to 170 in-residents. In our largest clinical facility, you will be rotating with over 200 staff members and learn from them how to better care for residents.

Host organisation

You will need to undertake your clinical placement in an organisation involved in professional services such as a Group Home, Respite Centre or Aged Care facility. The host organisation will provide you with access to specialist equipment and resources. Your Assessor/trainer will help guide you through your placement period and will be in regular contact with you and your Workplace Supervisor. Some facilities may require your immunisation records. If not sufficient, they may ask you to be immunised.

What support will I get?

It is our responsibility to organise your placement. You will have regular contact with your trainer/assessor during site visits and you will be partnered with a workplace staff member and have a designated Supervisor while on shift. Students are required to make their own travel arrangements to and from their placement activity.

• We understand that you may already have many skills and areas of expertise that you have obtained in different ways and these are recognised through our Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) process.
• We have developed an RPL application kit for this course.
• The Student Handbook provides more information about our RPL process. Alternatively, you can liaise with our administration staff to gain more information.

• Students are not required to repeat any unit or module in which they have already been assessed as competent, unless a regulatory requirement requires this. If a student provides suitable evidence that they have successfully completed a unit or module at any RTO, then they will be credited for that unit.
• In the case of any non-equivalent units of competency, an analysis will be undertaken to determine the equivalence of the study with the relevant units offered at INT Nurse Training before granting recognition.
• Please note that providing credit for previous studies is not recognition of prior learning (RPL). RPL is an assessment-only pathway of determining the competence of a person, while proving credit is recognising the equivalence in content and learning outcomes between different types of learning and/or qualifications previously undertaken and completed successfully.

Existing workers

The duration for this course is 6 months including breaks. Students will attend classes two days per week. This mode of study is set up using a traditional academic structure of 2 terms each of 10 weeks.

Students will also be expected to spend at least 15 hours per week in home study revising, researching, preparing for and undertaking assessment.

New entrants

The duration for this course is 18 months including breaks. Students will attend classes two days per week. This mode of study is set up using a traditional academic structure of 5 terms each of 10 weeks and 1 term of 13 weeks.

Students will also be expected to spend at least 10 hours per week in home study revising, researching, preparing for and undertaking assessment.

Language, Literacy, Numeracy and Digital (LLND) skills assessment

In accordance with regulatory requirements, all domestic students must complete a Language, Literacy, Numeracy and Digital (LLND) skills assessment prior to enrolment into any training product at INT College.

The purpose of this assessment is to identify any reasonable support needs by reviewing each student’s current foundation skill levels in relation to the requirements of their chosen training product. This process enables INT College to provide appropriate support strategies and ensure learners are set up for success throughout their course of study.

Host Organisation Requirements

Before commencing your placement, you must meet the mandatory compliance requirements set by our host organisations. These requirements are essential for ensuring the safety and wellbeing of vulnerable individuals and are enforced by all partner facilities.

The following items are commonly required by host organisations:

• National Police Check – This can be obtained online.
• Current First Aid Certificate – HLTAID011 (Provide First Aid). You are welcome to complete this course with INT College, where it is available at a discounted rate for students enrolled in one of our qualifications. However, you may also choose to complete it through any accredited provider.
• Influenza (Flu) Vaccination
• COVID-19 Vaccination

Please note: requirements may vary slightly depending on the specific host organisation. You will be advised of the exact requirements for your placement once it has been arranged.

We will discuss these compliance requirements with you during the placement preparation process, and support will be provided to assist you in meeting them.

While on placement you may be required to complete tasks that at physically demanding such as providing direct personal care including showering, transferring and assisting clients with mobility and a range of other manual handling tasks. Please inform staff at enrolment if you have any physical disabilities or limitations as these may restrict you from participating in the practical components of the training and assessment. By advising us it will allow us to make reasonable adjustments to your training and assessment plan.

There are 18 units to be completed in this qualification – 15 core and 3 elective units, in accordance with the packaging rules.

Core Units

You may elect to pay the full course fee up front or we can organise payment instalments for you to assist with your circumstances. The option exists for you to make regular payments at set intervals throughout your course. We will need to formalise a payment schedule in that instance. Please enquire with administration for more details (call 1800 046 846 or email info@int.edu.au)