CHC43115 Certificate IV in Disability
| Location | Days Per Week | Start Date | Length of Study |
| Warrnambool, 169 Lava Street | 2 days per week (day course) | 5th March 2019 | Tue & Thur 9:30am-3:30pm 12 months |
| Geelong, Building 6 37-61 Vines Rd, Hamlyn Heights | 2 night per week (night course) | 5th February 2019 | Tue & Thur 5:30pm-9:30pm 12 months |
Provide training and support to people with disabilities, enhancing their ability to achieve greater independence, empowerment and community participation whilst working in community settings and clients’ homes.
This qualification reflects the role of workers in a range of community settings and clients’ homes, who provide training and support in a manner that empowers people with disabilities to achieve greater levels of independence, self-reliance, community participation and well-being. Workers promote a person-centred approach, work without direct supervision and may be required to supervise and/or coordinate a small team.
Possible Job Titles May Include:
- Aged Care Activity Worker
- Care Service Team Leader
- Care Supervisor (Aged Care)
- Coordinator of Volunteers (Services to Older People)
- Disability Officer – Day Support
- Disability Support Worker
- Leisure and Therapy Assistant
Note: Completing a qualification does not guarantee a job outcome, the possible job titles above have been included as a guide only.
Course Structure
The course includes a classroom component, off-campus study components and industry placement. Assessment is based on competency, which is the ability to demonstrate specific skills and will involve a combination of assessment methods. These assessments can include written assignments, discussion, interviews, workplace projects and practical demonstrations.
You will be required to complete 120 hours of unpaid practical placement during or at the end of the course at a workplace as agreed on with Diversitat.
This qualification and the various delivery methods have been designed following consultations with industry, learners and other stakeholders.
The Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) Level
| Overall ACSF levels for this course | |
| LEARNING | L3 |
| READING | R3 |
| WRITING | W3 |
| ORAL COMMUNICATION | OC3 |
| NUMERACY | N1 |
Work Placement
Diversitat organises and administers work placements to students during course services where required. The opportunity of work placement provides:
- The student with the opportunity to gain real world experience in their chosen industry;
- The student to gain initial access to a potential future employer; and
- The host employer to support and ‘test’ a student as a potential employee.
Workplace learning programs are to achieve curriculum outcomes and enhance the vocational, educational and social development of students.
Diversitat ensures that students with special needs are provided with opportunities on the same basis as other students. This includes identifying and liaising with the workplace around adjustments and accommodations that students with disabilities may require.
Units of Study
Core Units
- CHCDIS007Facilitate the empowerment of people with disability
- CHCCCS015Provide individualised support
- CHCLEG003Manage legal and ethical compliance
- HLTWHS002Follow safe work practices for direct client care
- HLTAAP001Recognise healthy body systems
- CHCDIV001Work with diverse people
- CHCDIS010Provide person-centred services to people with disability with complex needs
- CHCDIS002Follow established person-centred behaviour supports
- CHCDIS005Develop and provide person-centred service responses
- CHCDIS009Facilitate ongoing skills development using a person-centred approach
- CHCDIS008Facilitate community participation and social inclusion
Elective Units
- CHCCCS011Meet personal support needs
- CHCCCS023Support independence and well being
- CHCDIS004Communicate using augmentative and alternative communication strategies


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