Get the skills to work in child care.
With dramatic growth in the numbers of dual income families, the business of caring for children has fallen increasingly into the public domain. The call has risen for increasing levels of professionalism in the child care industry.
The Cengage Education Certificate III in Children's Services course gives students nationally recognised qualifications to work in child care centres, vacation care centres, family day care centres and home-based care services, for example as a nanny. You’ll learn in depth about appropriate interaction with children and fulfilling their physical, emotional and self-care needs.
The course also covers legal and ethical considerations, as well as identifying and responding to risk factors.
Student's will receive a FREE 12-month Early Childhood Australia membership. Membership entitles students to:
- a quarterly Every Child Magazine
- a fortnightly ECA Web Watch e-newsletter
- a quarterly ECA Voice member newsletter
- an ECA Code of Ethics brochure
Students will also have access to quality information from Early Childhood Australia’s website, including the Supporting Best Practice section – containing links to 100s of quality-assured fact sheets and articles.
On completion of your course:
Upon successful completion of all course requirements, you will receive a nationally recognised CHC30402 Certificate III in Children's Services.
Cengage Education is a Registered Training Organisation registered by VETAB (Vocational Education and Training Accreditation Board).
Austudy approved
This course is Austudy approved, please apply directly to Centrelink to receive this benefit. Get more information about Financial Assistance programs.
This course is a Productivity Places Program approved course.
Key areas of learning:
- Identify and respond to children and young people at risk of harm
- Ensure children's health and safety
- Care for children
- Respond to illness, accidents and emergencies
- Work within a legal and ethical framework
- Support the development of children in the service
- Interact effectively with children
- Participate in workplace safety procedures
- Deliver services/activities to stimulate children's development and enhance their leisure
- Develop an understanding of children's interests and developmental needs
- Prepare nutritionally balanced food in a safe and hygienic manner
- Care for babies (Subject to jurisdiction requirements)
- Participate in the work environment
- Work effectively with families in caring for their child
- Apply advanced first aid (Subject to jurisdiction requirements)
- Apply basic first aid
Practical experience
Select Education
Cengage Education are proud to announce their affiliation with one of Australia's employment services Select Education. Select Education will aid students, where possible to gain practical experience within a Child Care Centre. On completion of your qualification, you can contact Select Education for assistance seeking full time or casual employment.
MSSA Care Personnel
Cengage Education students seeking employment can now contact MSSA Care Personnel. MSSA Care Personnel can assist students who have successfully completed this course. MSSA Care Personnel can be contacted by Cengage Education's graduates who are seeking full time or casual employment.
Early Childhood Australia
Cengage Education is pleased to announce their affiliation with Early Childhood Australia, the peak advocacy organisation for young children. Early Childhood Australia is committed to the care and education of children from birth to eight; and demonstrates this by supporting all carers and educators, including parents, to engage in best practice in early childhood environments.
As part of this commitment, Early Childhood Australia provides the following key services:
- Supporting Best Practice links to 100s of quality-assured fact sheets and articles.
- The free ECA WebWatch e-newsletter, a simple way to get up-to-date information within the early childhood field. To sign up to ECA WebWatch, just send a blank email to subscribe@earlychildhood.org.au.
For more information visit Early Childhood Australia.
Workplace assessment
Workplace training gives students the opportunity to develop practical job skills, such as interacting with people in a professional environment, developing communication skills, as well as an insight into particular job roles and responsibilities. Overall, students have found workplace training enhanced their chances of getting a job and succeeding at it.
As a mandatory part of this course, students are required to seek workplace training. Workplace training and assessment is the gathering and evaluation of evidence during normal work activities in order to determine whether a required element within a competency has been achieved.
Workplace assessment will entail a combination of recognition, observation, questioning, discussion and third party validation.
Following this, all students are required to provide a signed Pre-Assessment Interview form, Workplace Assessment form, Record of Outcome form and also the Workplace Agreement form to verify they have successfully demonstrated the practical components of each of the required competency outcomes. A qualified manager/supervisor must sign the forms as validation.
First Aid certificate
Students will need to have completed and hold a current full Senior or Basic First Aid Certificate, issued by an accredited provider. Students are required to submit certified copies of their First Aid Certificates. It is a mandatory requirement that all students complete the written and workplace components for First Aid modules, to meet the required outcomes for the applicable First Aid competencies:
HLTFA1A: Apply basic first aid - correlates to St John's Senior First Aid Certificate or the Australian Red Cross Course in Basic First Aid.
HLTFA2A: Apply advanced first aid - correlates to St John's Advanced First Aid Certificate or the Australian Red Cross Course in Intermediate First Aid.
- For information on your nearest St John office please phone 1300 360 455
- For information on your nearest Red Cross office please phone 1300 367 428
*Please note the cost of the First Aid certificates is not included in the course cost.