Aged Care, Counselling & Community Courses

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.

Courses in Community Services

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. 

Community Service worker

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.

Everyday Duties in Aged Care Employment

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 

Want to know more? check out all our community services courses.