College Certificate IV - Mental Health (CHC43315)

This qualification covers workers who provide a range of community services focusing on:• Rehabilitation and support for people affected by mental illness and psychiatric disability. • Implementing community-based activities focusing on mental health, mental illness and psychiatric disability, and • Mental health promotion work.

Work may focus on engaging people with a mental illness in community participation, prevention of relapse and promotion of recovery through programs such as residential rehabilitation, work in clinical settings, home-based outreach and centre-based programs delivered by community-based non-government organisations. This work may also involve support employment and programmed respite care.