Core Skills for Health and Wellbeing (Level 3)

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 learners 
• International learners eligible for domestic fees (e.g. certain visa holders)
• International learners on a valid work visa (non-domestic fee status)

Fees

The trainee fee for this programme is dependent on the visa and residency status of the trainee.

Domestic Fee eligibility:

To meet the requirements for domestic fees the trainee must have one of the following residency statuses. 

• • 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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