Programme Outline
Core Skills for Health and Wellbeing (Level 3) covers the following topics:
- Professional and ethical behaviour
- Vulnerability and abuse
- Communication
- Responding to changes
- Infection control
The expected duration for completing this programme is 4 months.
Unit Standards (total 23 credits)
28542 – Demonstrate knowledge of, and apply professional and ethical behaviour in a health or wellbeing setting (5 credits)
28521 – Describe responses to vulnerability and abuse in a health or wellbeing setting (5 credits)
28557 – Communicate to support a person’s health and wellbeing in a health or wellbeing setting (5 credits)
27459 – Observe, describe and respond to changes in a person in a health or wellbeing setting (4 credits)
28535 – Demonstrate knowledge of procedures for infection control (4 credits)
Enrolment Requirements
To enrol in Core Skills for Health and Wellbeing (Level 3) the trainee must be employed in the Aged Care, Home Support, Disability, Hospital and other Health and Wellbeing environments.
The programme is open to domestic and international (visa holder) learners, with the usual fees and eligibility requirements applying. Refer to the Domestic Fees Schedule.
Fees
The trainee fee for this programme is dependent on the visa and residency status of the trainee.
Non-domestic visa holders
The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) has issued guidance around funding for non-domestic visa holders in work-based learning for 2023.
This forms part of their implementation of the unified funding system (UFS), and results in the removal of training subsidy eligibility for non-domestic tertiary students. However, the Government has agreed to targeted exemptions to continue to subsidise work-based learning that is in the national interest, and that aligns with the Government’s Green List and Sector Agreements.
Domestic Fee eligibility:
To meet the requirements for domestic fees the trainee must have one of the following residency statuses.
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- New Zealand citizen (including Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau citizens).
- New Zealand permanent resident.
- Australian citizen.
- hold refugee status in New Zealand.
- hold a work visa that is eligible for domestic fees
There is more information on this link – Careerforce website fees page
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