Aged Care & Community Services Courses

Growing old can often result in impaired mobility, and in turn, a reduction in freedom and independence.

As a Care Assistant or Worker, you’ll be providing assistance to the elderly by helping with daily living.

In addition to helping them maintain their previous routine and habits, this may include personal care, dressing, eating, and taking medication.

Empowering the elderly to live independently, a Personal Care Assistant or Worker helps encourage a person’s capability while also providing care and assistance where needed.

As a personal carer, you’ll help the elderly during their day-to-day activities, run errands, or perform light housekeeping tasks.

Similar to a Personal Care Assistant or Worker, a Personal Caregiver helps with personal care including bathroom functions, hygiene, and dressing.

Your role may also include monitoring and reporting health and behaviour.

It isn’t just physical care, however - as a personal caregiver, you are also a key part in looking after their mental health, providing emotional support and companionship for the older people in your care.

This role is most often performed in residential care facilities or hospitals.

Work alongside professionals such as assistants in nursing and dieticians to provide support for older people who may no longer be able to support themselves.

Your main role is to provide assistance to those in your care, promote their health and safety, and improve their lives. You may also be responsible for organising activities to enhance social and emotional wellbeing.

1. Community Care Manager
2. Coordinator of Volunteer Work
3. Team Leader
4. Care Team Leader
5. Family Services Coordinator
6. Support Facilitator (Community Services)
7. Community Housing Resources Worker
8. Community Development Worker for Social
9. Community Worker
10. Aboriginal Housing Worker
11. Community Services Coordinator
12. Senior Youth Worker
13. Disability Team Leader
14. Support Facilitator (Disability)

Unlike other institutes, Academia organises and manages your mandatory work placement for you, taking away stress and effort of you trying to find aged care & community services centres by calling or personally visiting on many aged care centres to allow you to undertake work placement with them.

We deliver through a mix of blended online and class-room training to ensure students have flexibility of study whilst receiving 1:1 instruction during class tuition.

Academia is a multi-award winning institute giving our future students certainty that they will receive quality training that leads to real job outcomes.

Academia is known as a leader in quality tuition, with our aged care & community services courses recognized by the Industry and the Australian Government.

See for yourself - click below to read our accolades and see our long history of awards.

Our campuses are situated in the central business district of Melbourne & Brisbane, one of Australia’s most lively and dynamic cities.

Study Aged Care & community services courses at our Melbourne & Brisbane campuses. You’ll enjoy a fully equipped campus complete with classrooms and Simulated Aged Care lab to give you an authentic, hands-on education.

Finally, PCs, printers and free Wi-Fi are available to students across our campuses.

We’re a mid-sized institution, and proud of it!

Our size gives you the best of both worlds. You will be treated as an individual at Academia with personalized care and a tailored training plan for students who encounter difficulties in progressing in certain subjects.

At the same time, you’ll enjoy resources that a smaller institute simply won’t be able to offer!