CHC53315 Diploma of Mental Health

Comprehensive Training: Our Mental Health Diploma Courses in Sydney & Dubbo cover a wide range of topics, including mental health assessment, therapeutic communication, and working with diverse populations. You’ll gain a deep understanding of mental health issues and be well-prepared for real-world scenarios.

In-Demand Skills: Mental health care is an ever-growing field with a constant need for qualified professionals. Completing this diploma will open doors to a rewarding career, as it equips you with the knowledge and skills needed to make a significant difference in people’s lives.

Personal Growth: This Diploma Courses in Mental Health in Sydney & Dubbo not only enhances your professional skills but also fosters personal growth. You’ll gain the confidence and empathy required to provide effective support to individuals facing mental health challenges.

This qualification will provide you with the core skills required to provide a range of community services such as rehabilitating and supporting individuals who are affected by mental illness and psychiatric disability and how to implement community-based activities with these individuals.

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

• How to work with diverse people
• Intervention, health prevention and promotion strategies
• How to implement trauma informed care
• How to assist clients with medication
• How to work in a context with alcohol and drug issues

To enrol in our course for Diploma of Mental Health, prospective students should meet the following criteria:

• Completion of Year 12 or equivalent.
• Satisfactory completion of LLN (Language, Literacy, and Numeracy) assessment like Academic IELTS 6.0 overall score.
• A genuine passion for helping individuals with mental health challenges.

• Our curriculum is developed in consultation with industry experts, ensuring its relevance and effectiveness in real-world scenarios.
• Practical training, including hands-on experience and case studies, allows you to apply your knowledge in a supportive environment.
• INT College is known for its strong alumni network and excellent job placement opportunities, giving our graduates a head start in their careers.

Our dedicated faculty members bring a wealth of knowledge and real-world experience to the classroom. They are committed to your success and provide ongoing guidance and support throughout your academic journey. With a focus on student engagement, our faculty ensures that you receive the best education possible. We offer an online as well as face-to-face study mode depending on your convenience.

• 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 160 hours in total and will occur towards the end of the course. It is usually completed in 4 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 College before granting credit.
• Please note that providing credit for previous studies is not a 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 course Mental Health Nurse Training Sydney duration is 78 weeks (50 weeks of study + 160 hours of clinical placement) for International Students, including breaks and holidays, 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 and will complete 50 weeks of actual study. 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)