CHC52025 Diploma of Community Services
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Overview
This qualification reflects the role of community service workers involved in the delivery, management and coordination of person-centred services to individuals, groups, and communities.
At this level, workers have specialised skills in community services and work autonomously within their scope of practice under broad directions from senior management.
Workers support people to make change in their lives to improve personal and social wellbeing and may also have responsibility for the supervision of other workers and volunteers. They may also undertake case management and program coordination.
To achieve this qualification, the candidate must have completed at least 100 hours of work as detailed in the Assessment Requirements of units of competency.
The skills in this qualification must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State or Territory legislation, Australian standards and industry codes of practice.
20 units must be completed:
- 12 core units
- 8 elective units, consisting of:
- at least 6 units from amongst the electives listed in Group A, B, C, D or E below
- up to 2 units from the electives listed below, any endorsed Training Package or accredited course.
Where appropriate, electives may be packaged to provide a qualification with a specialisation.
Packaging for each specialisation:
- at least 4 Group A electives must be selected for the award of Diploma of Community Services(Case Management)
- at least 3 Group B electives must be selected for award of the Diploma of Community Services (Social Housing)
- at least 3 Group C electives must be selected for award of the Diploma of Community Services (Child, Youth and Family Welfare)
- at least 3 Group D electives must be selected for award of the Diploma of Community Services (Responding to Family Violence).
Students who complete this course may be able to seek employment in a range leadership and management roles such as;
• Community Care Manager
• Coordinator of Volunteer Work
• Team Leader
• Care Team Leader
• Family Services Coordinator
• Support Facilitator (Community Services)
• Community Housing Resources Worker
• Community Development Worker for Social Housing
• Community Recreation Coordinator
• Housing Manager
• Housing Assistant
• Assistant Community Worker
• Community Worker
• Aboriginal Housing Worker
• Community Services Coordinator
• Case Coordinator (Disability)
• Youth Housing Support Worker
• Family Support Worker
• Community Access Coordinator
• Pastoral Care Counsellor
• Aboriginal Neighbourhood House Coordinator
• Case Coordinator (Community Services)
• Welfare Support Worker
• Senior Youth Worker
• Disability Team Leader
• Support Facilitator (Disability)
• Community Housing Worker
• Community Work Coordinator
• Early Intervention Worker
• Community Program Coordinator
• Pastoral Care Worker
• Assistant Community Services Worker
Classroom delivery: Level 1, 175 Liverpool Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2000
The qualification is delivered over 104 weeks.
English Language Requirements:
- Academic IELTS 6.0 overall, with no less than 5.5 in each band or Upper Intermediate or EAP completion from an approved ELICOS/ESL centre Or Equivalent English Test (e.g. PTE, TOEFL).
- An AQF qualification at Certificate III level or above in any discipline, delivered and assessed in English, will also satisfy both academic and English requirements.
- Successfully complete the Language, Literacy, and Numeracy (LLN) and Digital literacy assessment provided by Epicure Skills Training prior to finalization of enrolment.
Physical requirements:
- Participants of this course should have reasonable level of fitness as the role may involve a variety of manual handling tasks that require physical activity, such as bending, lifting and standing for long periods of time.
Graduates of the CHC52025 Diploma of Community Services are equipped to pursue employment across a range of community services fields, including mental health services, child protection, alcohol and other drugs support, housing services, domestic and family violence support, disability services, and youth work.
Job titles may include, Case Coordinator, Community Housing Worker, Community Program Coordinator, Early Intervention Worker, Family Support Worker and more.
This qualification also provides a pathway to further study in the social sciences, such as a Bachelor of Social Work or other related university-level programs.
RPL and credit transfer (CT) can be applied for at the time of enrolment or during orientation and the original or certified copy must be provided. A fee is payable for assessing your RPL status or processing your credit transfer, please refer to our price lists in the handbook and website. If credit is granted, international students may have their course and visa shortened.
Tuition Fee: $AU 32,000
Non Tuition Fee: $AU 2,000
Estimated Total Course Cost: $AU 34,000
| Units Code | Units | Unit Type |
|---|---|---|
| CHCCCS004 | Assess co-existing needs | Core |
| HLTWHS003 | Maintain work health and safety | |
| CHCCCS007 | Develop and implement service programs | Core |
| CHCDFV001 | Recognise and respond appropriately to domestic and family violence | Core |
| CHCLEG003 | Manage legal and ethical compliance | Core |
| CHCDIV001 | Work with diverse people | |
| CHCPRP003 | Reflect on and improve own professional practice | Core |
| CHCCCS019 | Recognise and respond to crisis situations | Core |
| CHCDIV002 | Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety | Core |
| CHCCSM017 | Facilitate and review case management | Core |
| CHCDEV005 | Analyse impacts of sociological factors on people in community work and services (WP) | Core |
| CHCMGT005 | Facilitate workplace debriefing and support processes | Core |
| CHCADV002 | Provide advocacy and representation services | Elective |
| CHCCSM009 | Facilitate goal-directed planning | Elective |
| CHCCSM010 | Implement case management practice | Elective |
| BSBPEF401 | Manage personal health and wellbeing | Elective |
| CHCCSM012 | Coordinate complex case requirements | Elective |
| CHCCCS033 | Identify and report abuse | Elective |
| CHCCCS009 | Facilitate responsible behaviour | Elective |
| CHCCSM014 | Provide case management supervision | Elective |
Epicure Skills Training Pty Ltd has a Quality Assessment System which aims to ensure that assessment of our students meets the requirements of the nationally endorsed training packages and accredited courses and produces graduates with the relevant skills and knowledge for the workplace.
All assessments for this training program comply with the assessment requirements of the CHC52025 Diploma of Community Services and in accordance with the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence.
For details on assessment activity, refer to the Training and Assessment Sequencing Plan included as Appendix 1 of this TAS. The information below aligns with the Training and Assessment Sequencing Plan.
Epicure Skills Training Pty Ltd requires that students complete all assessments/provide assessment evidence ethically and without cheating, plagiarism, and collusion. The CEO and trainer/assessors will ensure that academic integrity is maintained in all learning and assessment activities by providing information to students to ensure they understand what constitutes cheating, plagiarism and collusion and what will be the outcome if they undertake such practice. Epicure Skills Training Pty Ltd has the following definitions for cheating, plagiarism and collusion.
Cheating: this is the use of any means to gain an unfair advantage during the assessment process. Cheating may include copying a friends’ answers, using mobile phones or other electronic devices during closed book assessments, bringing in and referring to pre-prepared written answers in a closed book assessment and referring to texts during closed book assessments, amongst others.
Plagiarism: plagiarism is the submission of somebody else’s work as if it was the student’s own. This may include copying all or part of another person’s thoughts or ideas and representing them as your own. If a student fails to identify the original source of some or all the submissions, this also constitutes plagiarism. If a student copies another student’s work and passes this of as their own, then this is also a form of plagiarism and cheating.
During the assessment, students will read about ideas and gather information from many sources. When students use these ideas in assignments, they must identify who produced them and in what publications they were found. If students do not do this, they are plagiarising. If students include other people; work in submissions e.g., passages from books or websites, then the reference should be made to the source.
Collusion: this is the presentation by a student of an assignment as his or her own, which is the result of unauthorised collaboration with another person or persons. Collusion involves the cooperation of two or more students in plagiarism or other forms of academic misconduct or cheating. Both collusion and plagiarism can occur in group work.
Where it is found that cheating, plagiarism, or collusion has occurred, this will result in the student’s assessment submission being invalidated, and the Student will be investigated for academic misconduct.
Epicure Skills Training Pty Ltd has a plan for, and implements, systematic validation of assessment practices and judgments. The Validation Plan ensures that each unit or module on EPICURE SKILLS TRAINING PTY LTD’s scope of registration is validated at least once every five years, with at least 50% of all units or modules validated within the first three years of each five-year cycle.
The Validation Plan includes:
- When assessment validation will occur
- Which training products will be the focus of the validation
- Who will lead and participate in the validation activities.
Validation is conducted on a regular basis for each training product in line with the requirements of the Standards for RTOs 2015 (Clause 1.9, 1.10 & 1.11). Collectively, those involved in validation must have:
- Vocational competencies and current industry skills
- Current knowledge and skills in vocational teaching and learning
- The training and assessment qualification or assessor skill set
