Course Level
Graduate Certificate
Graduate Certificate in Statutory Child Protection - CHC81215
This qualification reflects the role of child protection workers who provide specialist services to clients with complex and diverse needs, and act as a resource for other workers. Workers at this level use critical thinking, communication and evaluation skills and make complex judgements in specialist contexts as part of a collaborative team. Their role involves service planning, delivery and evaluation and may include responsibility and accountability for the work of both self and others.No licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.
Campus | Duration | Fees | ATAR |
|---|---|---|---|
TrEd Campus Adelaide | Full-time - 52 weeks | N/A | N/A |
TrEd College Sydney Campus | Full-time - 52 weeks | N/A | N/A |
Subjects
- Work with young people to establish support networks
- Undertake youth work in specific communities
- Manage complex child protection risk assessments and case strategies
- Apply learning theories in counselling
- Promote accountability and assist users of domestic and family violence to accept responsibility
- Provide case management supervision
- Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety
- Work with users of violence to effect change
- Provide support to children affected by domestic and family violence
- Research and apply personality and development theories
- Work effectively in social and emotional wellbeing
- Work within a child inclusive framework
- Develop, implement and monitor safety strategies in child protection work
- Lead innovative thinking and practice
- Manage domestic and family violence screening and risk assessment processes
- Plan and implement a mentoring program
- Support young people to take collective action
- Respond to loss, grief and trauma
- Establish and maintain the safety of people who have experienced domestic and family violence
- Promote and represent the service
- Select and use counselling therapies
- Develop a healing framework for social and emotional wellbeing work
- Lead own professional development
- Counsel clients affected by domestic and family violence
- Plan, implement and monitor provision of out of home care
- Facilitate the counselling relationship and process
- Make safety plans with people who have been subjected to domestic and family violence
- Initiate and lead applied research
- Implement trauma informed care
- Establish change promoting relationship with users of domestic and family violence
- Provide domestic and family violence support in non-English speaking background communities
- Develop and implement procedures to enable young people to address their needs
- Assist clients to develop parenting arrangements
- Develop and implement policy
- Provide leadership across the organisation
- Work with involuntary and mandated clients
- Apply specialist interpersonal and counselling interview skills
- Facilitate workplace debriefing and support processes
- Work within a clinical supervision framework
- Implement participation and engagement strategies
- Manage and monitor child protection orders
- Provide domestic and family violence support in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
- Develop and cultivate collaborative partnerships and relationships
- Manage responses to domestic and family violence in family work
- Provide programs for people who have been subjected to domestic and family violence
- Undertake case management in a child protection framework
Entry requirements
- Entry to this qualification is open to individuals who:hold an undergraduate degree or postgraduate qualification in a discipline related to work in the community sector or have significant previous experience working in a community sector organisation, in a job role involving the self directed application of knowledge with substantial depth in a specialist area of practice and the exercise of judgement and decision makingorhold CHC50313 Diploma of Child, Youth and Family Intervention or equivalent
Related Courses
Child Protection Skill Set - CHCSS00141
Rhodes International College
