Community Services courses
The team has been terrific! Tutors and staff have worked with me to undertake an aged-care qualification and create a different pathway for my career.
Benjamin Francis
Community Services
Do you enjoy helping others within the community?
MDÍø±¬ÃÅ offers a number of accredited courses that will give you the skills to launch or progress your career in community service and aged care. Courses are run across our many campuses.
The Productivity Commission recently forecast Australia will need almost one million aged care/disability staff by 2050 due to the increase in the country’s ageing population. Increase your employment prospects and future study opportunities by engaging in this short course. The course includes First Aid which is an essential requirement in the Aged Care and/or Disability sector.
The Productivity Commission recently forecast Australia will need almost one million aged care/disability staff by 2050 due to the increase in the country’s ageing population. Increase your employment prospects and future study opportunities by engaging in this short course. The course includes First Aid which is an essential requirement in the Aged Care and/or Disability sector.
The Productivity Commission recently forecast Australia will need almost one million aged care/disability staff by 2050 due to the increase in the country’s ageing population. Increase your employment prospects and future study opportunities by engaging in this short course. The course includes First Aid which is an essential requirement in the Aged Care and/or Disability sector.
Are you affected by the COVID lockdown ? Do you want to discover a new career direction and learn the core elements of providing support to clients? These units will start you off in several community services areas such as Aged Care, Disability, Home Care, Youth Work.
Are you affected by the COVID lockdown ? Do you want to discover a new career direction and learn the core elements of providing support to clients? These units will start you off in several community services areas such as Aged Care, Disability, Home Care, Youth Work.
Are you affected by the COVID lockdown ? Do you want to discover a new career direction and learn the core elements of providing support to clients? These units will start you off in several community services areas such as Aged Care, Disability, Home Care, Youth Work.
Develop the skills and knowledge required to provide medication assistance and complete medication documentation.
Develop the skills and knowledge required to provide medication assistance and complete medication documentation.
Develop the skills and knowledge required to provide medication assistance and complete medication documentation.
Students in this course learn the skills to launch a rewarding career in providing care to individuals within the aged care or disability sector.
Students in this course learn the skills to launch a rewarding career in providing care to individuals within the aged care or disability sector.
Students in this course learn the skills to launch a rewarding career in providing care to individuals within the aged care or disability sector.
Students in this course learn the skills to launch a rewarding career providing care to individuals within the aged care sector.
Students in this course learn the skills to launch a rewarding career providing care to individuals within the aged care sector.
Students in this course learn the skills to launch a rewarding career providing care to individuals within the aged care sector.
Do you love helping people and seeing them reach their full potential? A career in disability support could be the right path for your future.
Do you love helping people and seeing them reach their full potential? A career in disability support could be the right path for your future.
Do you love helping people and seeing them reach their full potential? A career in disability support could be the right path for your future.
Youth Work is an ideal career for those who are passionate about making a difference in the lives of young people.
Youth Work is an ideal career for those who are passionate about making a difference in the lives of young people.
Youth Work is an ideal career for those who are passionate about making a difference in the lives of young people.
Gaining a Cert IV in Disability will allow you the opportunity for employment in a range of community settings and clients’ homes, and jobs that provide training and support in a manner that empowers people with disabilities to achieve greater levels of independence, self-reliance, community participation and wellbeing.
Gaining a Cert IV in Disability will allow you the opportunity for employment in a range of community settings and clients’ homes, and jobs that provide training and support in a manner that empowers people with disabilities to achieve greater levels of independence, self-reliance, community participation and wellbeing.
Gaining a Cert IV in Disability will allow you the opportunity for employment in a range of community settings and clients’ homes, and jobs that provide training and support in a manner that empowers people with disabilities to achieve greater levels of independence, self-reliance, community participation and wellbeing.
This qualification reflects the role of support workers who complete specialised tasks and functions in aged services; either in residential, home, or community-based environments and are responsible for the development, facilitation and review of individualised service planning and delivery.
This qualification reflects the role of support workers who complete specialised tasks and functions in aged services; either in residential, home, or community-based environments and are responsible for the development, facilitation and review of individualised service planning and delivery.
This qualification reflects the role of support workers who complete specialised tasks and functions in aged services; either in residential, home, or community-based environments and are responsible for the development, facilitation and review of individualised service planning and delivery.
This course is designed to assist workers in community services move into and manage effectively in supervisory roles. Study is offered online over 18 months and is supported with monthly face to face or video link workshops.
This course is designed to assist workers in community services move into and manage effectively in supervisory roles. Study is offered online over 18 months and is supported with monthly face to face or video link workshops.
This course is designed to assist workers in community services move into and manage effectively in supervisory roles. Study is offered online over 18 months and is supported with monthly face to face or video link workshops.
Trudi Van Vuuren
Trudi trains the Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌý. She also assists clients with medication and helps out with traineeships.
Trudi is passionate about providing training that supports the transformation of lives by providing quality education and learning experiences. She embraces diversity and fosters a classroom inclusive of all cultures/languages to support each student’s ability to grow and thrive inside and outside the classroom.
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Trudi Van Vuuren
Meet our amazing Aged Care and Disability trainer Trudi Van Vuuren. Trudi started with Atwea in 2021 and trains the Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌý. She also assists clients with medication and helps out with traineeships. Trudi is passionate about providing training that supports the transformation of lives by providing quality education and learning experiences. She embraces diversity and fosters a classroom inclusive of all cultures/languages to support each student’s ability to grow and thrive inside and outside the classroom.
Trudi has had an extensive career where she has worked as learning support in secondary schools for culturally diverse students. From 2013 to 2017 she was employed as a personal care worker. In 2015, she enrolled at the University of Newcastle to complete a Bachelor of Nursing. At the university she also worked in sessional tutoring at the Wollotuke Institute, assisting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students with their nursing studies. As a Registered Nurse, she works in Aged Care, Disability, Palliative Care and Regional Immunisations. Trudi has also done volunteer and community work in assisting new immigrants and culturally and linguistically diverse people to settle in.
She says her experience working with Atwea is positive; she receives great support and loves the team approach. The values of integrity, innovation and inclusion drew her to teach at Atwea. In 2021, Trudi won the Alan Melling Memorial Ward for her work with our students. English is her second language, and she strives to make her classroom inclusive for all.
Trudi delivers engaging classes in a well-organised learning environment. She maintains the highest level of professionalism whilst building rapport and ensuring her students’ needs are at the centre of her delivery.
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