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Central Regional TAFE

Provide Individual Support Skill Set

  • Non-Award

Your first step to a caring career.. Many individuals require support services to help them live an independent and fulfilling life - including people with physical or intellectual disability, older people, and vulnerable members of the community.

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Degree Type
Non-Award

About this course

Your first step to a caring career..

Many individuals require support services to help them live an independent and fulfilling life - including people with physical or intellectual disability, older people, and vulnerable members of the community.

This is highly rewarding work, but employers look for people who are job ready with basic skills and knowledge for entry level roles in one-on-one or group support settings, or for administrative role in a care facility. With the Provide Individual Support skill set, that will be you!

You'll learn about following a client's individual care or support plan to meet their personal support needs, how to comply with personal hygiene standards, maintain food safety, contribute to the cleanliness of food handling areas and dispose of food appropriately, prepare for and provide medication assistance and complete medication documentation, supporting a client to self-administer medication, safe work practices for the health and safety of yourself and your clients, and how to recognise potentially hazardous manual tasks and complete those tasks in a safe manner.

Entry requirements

RTO Entrance Requirements:
  • Student Eligibility: Individuals aged 18 or over are eligible to undertake this training.
  • Students must participate in a pre-enrolment induction with the lecturer (face to face or phone) prior to enrolment.
  • Students who decide to enrol must complete the Client Profile and Learning Needs questionnaire. This is to determine the specific needs of the individual learners and to develop support strategies to assist them with their learning. This will be recorded on the Client Needs Summary Form as required.
  • It is recommended that all students who decide to enrol complete an LLN assessment. This is to determine the specific LLN level and needs of the individual learners and to develop support strategies to assist them with their learning.
  • Students are advised at Pre-enrolment of 'Physical and Medical Fitness' requirements as follows: Aged care and disability work can be emotionally and physically challenging and will be very hands on. You will require the level of medical and physical fitness needed to be on your feet for long periods of time, help transfer and position clients and where relevant undertake other physical fitness activities e.g. cleaning, moving equipment, transporting clients in wheelchairs, helping clients in and out of vehicles etc.
  • Students are advised that lecturers must have access to their workplace so they can train and/or conduct observations in the workplace.
  • Students are advised that a workplace supervisor (Third party person) will be required to verify that the student has performed the tasks as recorded in the workplace assessments and performed them to the industry standard.

Career pathways

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