CHC52021 Diploma of Community Services (Case Management and Child, Youth and Family Welfare)

Upon completion of our Diploma of Community Services Course, you will be prepared for a wide range of rewarding career opportunities in community organisations, government agencies, non-profits, and more. You can become a social worker, case manager, community support worker, or counsellor, making a positive impact on the lives of individuals and communities.

This qualification will provide you with the core skills required to perform a range of community service-based roles such as involving social housing, case management and youth and family welfare.

During your studies some of the things you will learn include:

• Communicate effectively and on behalf of clients
• Apply all aspects of case management, including complex assessment and referral
• Implement community development strategies
• Understand the impacts of sociological factors on clients
• Promoting diversity
• Improving professional practice

• 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 200 hours and will occur in 3-4 blocks at the end of each term. 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 credit.
• 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.

The duration for the Diploma of Community Services (Case Management) course is 18 months for International Students, including breaks, who are required to complete at least 20 hours of face to face study online per week, or engage for 20 hours per week. International Students will attend classes three days per week to meet this requirement. This mode of study is set up using a traditional academic structure of 6 terms each of 9 weeks.

Language, Literacy and Numeracy

This course involves reading and undertaking a range of written assessments, as well as engaging in group based discussions. Furthermore, the delivery mode relies on the extensive use of written communication. As such, entry to the course requires the successful completion of Language, Literacy and Numeracy testing to the required Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) level.

Host Organisation Requirements

In all cases you will need to obtain a Working with Vulnerable People check as part of a National Police Clearance check, prior to commencing your placement. Our partner facilities will not let people commence placement without having the required clearances. This check can be obtained online. You will also be required to have a current first aid certificate (HLTAID003 Provide first aid). This short course can be undertaken at INT Nurse Training. These requirements will be discussed in detail on Day 1 (orientation day) of your program.

Physical Requirements

You will need to be physically fit as the role may involve a variety of tasks that require physical activity, 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.

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)