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This Job Ready Aged Care Bundle combines our best-selling Aged Care Course Bundle with our Job Ready Skills Certificate. It's the perfect entry point...
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Gain practical skills for a naturally caring profession and save over $700! This bundle gives you access to ALL our aged and community care courses for one low price...
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Designed in collaboration with top experts like Dr Golly, Wayne Schwass and Jade Hameister OAM, this 100% online Course Bundle will equip you with the practical, on-the-job skills...
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Do you enjoy helping people with conflict resolution or mental, lifestyle and emotional problems? If this is you, consider a career in counselling with our online counselling...
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Do you enjoy helping people with conflict resolution or mental, lifestyle and emotional problems? If this is you, consider a career in counselling with our online Certificate. This course offers a foundation for effective counselling...
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Are you thinking of changing your career path? Or are you unsure of what it is you want to do? That's why we have created this Aged Care Career Sampler course to give you a taste of your potential future career in this rewarding industry.
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Do you naturally counsel others through their challenges, pain or relationship troubles? Do you think you are suited to a career in counselling? Find out today with our Career Sampler course, designed to give you a taste of your potential future career this rewarding industry.
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Learn how to support older people with this entry level online aged care course. This course provides you with the knowledge and ability to provide ethical support, while addressing the needs of elderly people in your home, workplace or community.
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Are you currently looking after your parents or grandparents? Do you feel prepared for the road ahead? Or do you work in the aged care services industry and want to upgrade your knowledge and skills? If so, this is a perfect course for you.
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In 2020 there is an estimated 436,366 Australians living with dementia. Dementia is the single greatest cause of disability in older Australians (aged 65 years or older). With these scary statistics, we all need to understand more, get started today...
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Unfortunately, disability rates in the elderly increases steadily with age. If you're looking to support an ageing family member or work within the residential and community aged care environment, you need to understand more about how to manage and support...
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If you want to learn more about managing your personal relationships or if you are in the counselling industry and you want to brush up on your relationship counselling advice, then this is the course for you. Get enrolled right now and make it happen.
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Looking to support an ageing family member or work within the residential and community aged care environment? This online course can help caregivers, community workers and those with elderly parents understand and support the people they work with.
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This Job Ready Allied Health Assistance Bundle combines our best-selling Advanced Certificate in Allied Health with our Job Ready Skills Certificate. It's the perfect entry point...
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This Advanced Certificate in Allied Health Assistance is designed for people looking to work in the health and wellness industry in a hands-on role...
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Do you love helping people, working with the elderly or enjoy giving people advice? If so, turn your passion for caring into a rewarding career with one of our sought-after short, online aged care or counselling courses in the growing health services industry!
OCA's Aged Care, Community & Counselling Courses offer you an opportunity to kickstart your career or formalise existing community work skills.
Perhaps you enjoy helping people with conflict resolution or mental, lifestyle and emotional problems. If this is you, consider a career in counselling. Our online short course qualifications offer a practical and theoretical foundation for effective counselling. They provide you with training and experience that will enable you to seek work in either an agency or private practice. During these courses, you’ll learn empathy and rapport building as you develop the micro-skills that every counsellor needs to create a fruitful therapeutic relationship with their clients. For our most advanced aged care course online, find out more here.
Our aged care courses online will teach you how to fulfil the critical functions of aged care as caregivers for seniors and elderly individuals in your community or in registered home care facilities. These include learning how to work effectively with them and participating in creating an empowering environment. Other critical skills and knowledge you will learn include the Australian legal and ethical frameworks you need to follow as a support carer, how to recognise healthy body systems, and what workplace health and safety practices you must comply with as a member of the aged care industry.
Suppose you're looking for a career that will help you make a real difference in the lives of whole communities or individuals at risk. In that case, you may also consider working within the disability sector. One in five people has a disability, and employers are actively seeking qualified, compassionate workers as the sector continues to grow. A career in the disability sector is both attainable and hugely fulfilling.
More than one-quarter of a million people (282,000) were using residential care (permanent or respite), home care or transition care services in Australia on 30 June 2018. In addition, in 2017–18, more than 783,000 people were assisted in their homes under the Commonwealth Home Support Program. This is a growing industry with considerable job opportunities across Australia. Why not try out our Working in Aged Care 101 course? Find out more here. Or if you are still unsure if this industry is for you, you can try Online Courses Australia's unique career sampler course. Online Courses Australia offers industry-leading counselling courses, and aged care courses online, including Supporting People with Dementia.
If you would like to preview our aged care courses in more detail, click on the DEMO above or call our team on 1300 611 404. You may also be interested in similar short courses online.
The job role and responsibilities outlined in your job description are referred to in broad terms. If an attempt were made to list every specific function you are required to perform in your work, the document would be many pages long. Your job description refers to your central duties as a support worker. However, the position necessarily implies a wide range of duties that may include:
• Direct provision of support
• Maintenance of client records
• Maintenance of financial records and accountability
• Maintenance of a safe and healthy workplace
• Maintenance of stock, plant and equipment
• Provision of first aid
• Responding to emergencies
• Medicine administration
• Maintenance of confidentiality
• Service cleaning
• Meal preparation or supporting others to do so
• Correspondence management
• Contributing to ongoing monitoring and review of policies, procedures and protocols
• Vehicle management
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