Certificate III in Home and Community Care

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Work with people across a range of ages and disabilities in the Home and Community Care sector.

You will learn skills to carry out activities to maintain personal care and other activities for people in their own homes or in community settings.

We are holding information sessions at our Werribee campus and information sessions at our Footscray Nicholson campus. Anyone interested is encouraged to attend, please phone +61 3 9919 8294 for more information or to book.

Course Essentials

How to apply

We are currently accepting applications for this course. Applications close on 25 January 2013

Methods of applying:

  • You can apply direct to VU

Please note that part-time study may not be available at all campuses.

Already a VU student?

You can transfer into this course through our internal transfer process.

For more info contact the
College of Health and Biomedicine

Careers

  • home and community care assistant
  • home and community care worker
  • home and community care support worker
  • in-home respite worker

Learn more about your career options on the Australian government's Career Information and Resources website.

Learning in life

Abrehet Fssaheye completed a Certificate III in Aged Care, Certificate III in Health Administration and a Certificate III in Home and Community Care...

Course Objectives

The objectives of this qualification are to deliver quality training to students to prepare them to work in the Home and Community care sector. Students will gain sound theoretical and work based placement in home and community care settings. This will enable students to be work ready and apply their training across a variety of home and community care environments.

Units and electives

14 units must be selected for this qualification including 9 compulsory and 5 elective units.

A wide range of elective units available may include: Relevant grouped electives listed in purchasing guide to facilitated selection, units of competency to address workplace requirements and packaged at the level of this qualification of higher in Community Services and/or Health Training Packages. Also where appropriate, to address workplace requirements, units of competency packaged at this level or higher in other relevant Training Packages.

There are no prerequisites for this course. Selection into the course is based attending an information and interview session. A written and oral interview is required to be considered for this course.

What's a unit?

A unit or 'subject' is the actual class you'll attend in the process of completing a course.

Most courses have a mixture of compulsory 'core' units that you need to take, and optional 'elective' units that you can choose to take based on your area of interest, expertise or experience.

Admission Information

  • Direct Application, Employer Choice.

How to apply for this course

We are currently accepting applications for this course. You can apply direct to VU. Applications close on 25 January 2013.

When you're ready to apply:

  1. Read the Advice to applicants (contains details about how to apply for your course, extra requirements, what happens when you submit your application and other important information).
  2. Submit a TAFE Direct Entry Application form
  3. As part of the application you may need to complete extra requirements such as:
    • submit supplementary forms
    • attend an interview, audition, information session or workshop
    • submit a folio
    • sit a test

    Details about extra requirements are available from the College of Health and Biomedicine.

    You need to complete all extra requirements by the given dates, otherwise your application may not be considered.

Transferring between VU courses

Want to transfer into this course from another VU course? Complete the Victoria University internal course application form and check whether you need to complete any extra requirements, listed above.

You can also contact us directly:

Get in touch

Contact us to discuss your course options:

Ring us on +61 3 9919 6100

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