Find yourself in demand.
With the growth of the child care industry, a raft of new opportunities has arisen for people who want to find employment in the field.
The Cengage Education Diploma of Children’s Services course gives you nationally recognised qualifications to work in child care centres. You will learn about planning, implementing and evaluating plans, enhancing children’s development, researching, and communication skills.
The course is ideal for those on the way to a career in the this fast growing field.
Students 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 CHC50302 Diploma of 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.
Key areas of learning:
- Document, interpret and use information about children
- Support the rights and safety of children within duty of care requirements
- Arrange/organise experiences which facilitate and enhance children's development
- Manage workplace OHS management system
- Work in partnership with families to care for the child
- Design, implement and evaluate programs of the service
- Foster and enhance children's development
- Observe children and interpret observations
- Foster and enhance children's social, emotional and psychological development
- Manage a service organisation
- Establish, manage and monitor the implementation of a safe and healthy environment
- Foster and enhance children's cognitive and language development
- Implement and promote inclusive policies and practices
- Establish and implement plans for developing responsible behaviour
- Plan the inclusion of children with additional needs
- Provide experiences which facilitate children's expressive development
- Provide experiences which enhance children's development and learning
- Manage an accreditation process
- Use music as a medium to enhance children's experience and development
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.
This is a government accredited course that meets the requirements of the Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF) therefore you will need to complete this part of your studies in an Australian workplace.
Student Insurance
Cengage Education is pleased to offer our students insurance cover, for any workplace experience they undertake as part of their course.
Workplace experience is considered a vital component for many subjects and will contribute greatly when attempting to find employment in related fields. The policy covers 'personal accidents' in the workplace, and will help put employers' minds at ease for the duration of the work placement. The policy DOES NOT offer students Professional Indemnity coverage.
A copy of the Certificate of Currency can be requested from our student services team on 1300 650 011.