Certificate IV in Community Services
Get qualified to work as a welfare support worker
Begin your career in community services and gain job ready skills to become a welfare support worker. The experienced lecturer team at TAFE will teach you a specialised skillset to work in family and youth work, child protection, counselling, alcohol/drugs, domestic violence and mental health.
A career in Community Services can change and impact lives by helping people that need it most. This course will give you job ready skills to be qualified for a role supporting the community as an outreach officer, welfare support worker or case worker. The Community Services industry assists individual clients, families and entire communities who are vulnerable or at risk and is about improving the quality of life of people who need support.
Gain these skills
- communicate and work effectively in the community services sector
- promote social, emotional and physical well-being
- respond to critical situations including children at risk
- assist collective action
- work with cultural diversity
- ethical behaviour and legal responsibilities
Your qualification prepares you for roles such as:
Further Study Option(s)
Diploma of Community Services
Course overview
Geraldton
One semester
No
| Location | Duration | Competitive |
|---|---|---|
| Geraldton | One semester | No |
Joondalup (Kendrew Crescent)
One semester
No
Leederville
One semester
No
Mount Lawley
Two semesters
No
| Location | Duration | Competitive |
|---|---|---|
| Joondalup (Kendrew Crescent) | One semester | No |
| Leederville | One semester | No |
| Mount Lawley | Two semesters | No |