College Certificate IV - Child, Youth and Family Intervention + College Diploma - Community Services

This qualification covers those who work in youth and family intervention, including practice specialisations in child protection. Workers are under a broad supervision framework and operate within clearly defined organisation guidelines, service plans, and position specifications.

These workers may include paraprofessional and recognised entities: • Carry out activities related to maintenance of a child or young person at risk, personal care and/or other activities of living

• Report directly to the supervisor and may at times be partially responsible for providing support to other workers • Possibly undertake higher levels of report preparation and case notes, especially in relation to supervised access visits • May provide out of home care

The Diploma of Community Services is recommended for participants who have some general knowledge of the community services sector and wish to enter the sector of Community Services or further their skills or careers.

Participants may include: • People wanting to commence in a new industry sector

• People who want to continue in to further study • People who are working or volunteering in the sector and are seeking a formal qualification. • People returning to the workforce