Working in disability services offers challenges but the rewards are personally fulfilling. Your work can directly enhance lifestyle, promote independence and empowerment and encourage people with disabilities to participate in community activities.
Disability Support workers provide provide general household assistance, emotional support, physical assistance, care and companionship for people with a physical or intellectual disability.
Certificate IV in Disability
This course provides participants with the skills to support people with disability to achieve greater levels of independence.
Study a qualification that open doors to a range of job opportunities in the direct care industry, whilst giving back to the community. This formal qualification provides the skills and knowledge to empower people with disability to achieve greater levels of independence.
This qualification builds on the skills and knowledge you would have gained in Certificate III in Individual Support or Certificate III in Disability.
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Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing, Home and Community)
Launch your career in caring in the home and the community.
Support people that need it the most in a career as an aged care assistant.
Start your caring career in this course with a variety of foundational skills you can use to take advantage of jobs in-demand across the spectrum of care industries. This course combines the most common skills in need across the three specialist streams in providing in-demand home, institution and community support services and also helps you to develop relationships with a wide range of people, including care organisations, carers and families.
Study in specialised facilities
SM TAFE campuses have training facilities which simulate real-life workplace settings and students can gain hands-on practice developing skills to be workforce ready, using industry specific equipment and following safe work practices. Our Rockingham campus has a state-of-the art purpose-built learning facility for disability home care and aged care, with dedicated areas that emulate rooms in a modified residence or aged care facility.
Gain specialist skills and be guided from our passionate team of experienced lecturers on how to provide physical and emotional support to people whilst enabling them to maintain independence. Learn how to assist with daily living tasks such as cooking and transport, and provide company and companionship to your client through daily interactions which boost their overall wellbeing.
Build your methods of communicating effectively with a range of diverse groups including families and co-workers, and you’ll also develop some strong one-on-one relationships with the people you are caring for who have had a lifetime of experience and knowledge to share, which can bring job satisfaction as you work regularly together.
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Students in community services benefit from sharing information about organisations, initiatives and leading expertise in our Community Services Facebook page.
Certificate III in Individual Support (Disability)
Complete this course and be on your way to a career in disability support.
Do you have a passion for helping people and want to build a career around the commitment of supporting people with disability? This course will give you job ready skills to become a professional disability care worker.
This is your chance to make a real difference in your role, supporting and empowering people with disability to reach their full potential and become more independent, whilst improving overall quality of life of your clients through your working relationship and supporting their participation in the community.
Study in specialised facilities
SM TAFE campuses have training facilities which simulate real-life workplace settings and students can gain hands-on practice developing skills to be workforce ready, using industry specific equipment and following safe work practices. Our Rockingham campus has a state-of-the art purpose-built learning facility for disability home care and aged care, with dedicated areas that emulate rooms in a modified residence or aged care facility.