Bachelor of Human Services/Bachelor of Business

Through a number of diverse and rewarding roles human services practitioners provide support to individuals families and communities who are experiencing social or economic adversity. They may work directly with clients providing counselling support or advocating on their behalf manage the delivery of services and support through agencies such as Centrelink develop and administer programs or work for government in the development and implementation of new policies and programs.

Also consider the other following double degrees with a Bachelor of Human Services:

• Creative Industries: combine creative industries and human services for careers in youth or disability arts rehabilitation in corrective services or community and cultural development.
• Justice: where your human services and justice qualifications position you for a career in policy development child and family services Indigenous community work customs services court administrative services non-policy enforcement agencies or criminology research.
• Public Health: merge your human services and public health skills in order to deliver support programs in government NGOs community and advocacy groups and not-for-profit organisation

In an age of competitive tendering outsourcing and consumer choice a double degree in human services and business gives you the knowledge and skills you need to work effectively across public and private spheres to progress to management positions in human service organisations. Tasks undertaken by managers in human service organisations include recruiting and managing staff marketing and promoting programs and services and preparing and managing budgets contracts and tenders.

Human services graduates generally work with communities and non-government agencies as case managers counsellors policy development officers project managers community development officers welfare officers youth workers child protection officers and family service professionals.

Opportunities also exist for graduates to work in aid development not-for-profit and human rights agencies in Australia and internationally.

Graduates are eligible to apply for membership of the Australian Community Workers Association.

You may be eligible for membership of a number of other professional bodies depending on your business major and unit selection.

• Business development officer
• Case manager
• Child protection officer
• Community corrections officer
• Community education officer
• Director of health programs and services
• Disability services worker
• Family services officer
• Health policy officer
• Health promotion officer
• Health services manager
• Human resource manager
• Human services practitioner
• Marketing officer/manager
• Youth worker