English for Aged Care - Sydney Course

Do you need to improve your English so that you can do further study and work in the aged care industry?

Macquarie Community College is a leading provider of English teaching, offering you an inclusive and supportive environment in which to learn.

This English for Aged Care course is suitable for people who need to develop their functional English language skills in preparation for studying the CHC33015 Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing and Disability Specialisation) in the future.

During this course, you will develop your English reading, writing, speaking and researching skills. This will enable you to be more equipped and confident to participate in the CHC33015 Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing and Disability Specialisation) course more successfully.

Macquarie Community College operates from a range of venues across Northern and Western Sydney. We have campuses in Blacktown, Carlingford, Chatswood, Epping, Mt Druitt, Richmond, and Ryde. Enrol now!

Course Outline

In this English for Aged Care course, you will learn how to:

• Read and respond to various text types that are required in the Aged Care Certificate qualification
• Write routine workplace texts
• Read and write texts for multiple purposes in the aged care sector
• Participate in spoken interactions
• Undertake a simple investigation of health and wellbeing in the aged care environment
• Understand diversity in the workplace

Course Outcome

At the end of the course, you will be able to read, write and speak proficiently for the purposes of studying in the CHC33015 Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing and Disability Specialisation) in the future.

You will be issued a Statement of Attainment for the units where competency has been achieved.

What to Bring

Please bring a:

• Pen and notepad

All course material is provided and inclusive with course fees

Prerequisite: Essential

An appropriate level of language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) skills is required to enrol in this course. Macquarie Community College may conduct an LLN assessment as part of the pre enrolment process.

Reading, writing, numeracy, oral communication and learning skills at Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) exit Level 2 or above is required.

Fees and Government Subsidy Opportunities

The NSW Government’s Adult and Community Education (ACE) Program provides additional support to disadvantaged students who have barriers to studying a full qualification. The ACE Program aims to promote access and increase vocational education and training outcomes for those who experience significant barriers to training and employment.

This may include students who are:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
• living with a disability
• long-term unemployed
• Commonwealth welfare recipients and their dependants
• migrants/refugees who are unemployed or underemployed
• experiencing other barriers to the Smart and Skilled entitlement program
• living in regional and remote communities where training under the Smart and Skilled entitlement program cannot easily be accessed

If you're a prospective student, please visit: https://www.macquarie.nsw.edu.au/adult-community-education where you will find everything you need to know about the Adult Community Education program before you enrol.

For those that are not eligible for this subsidy please enquire for pricing.

Study Load

This course will include both classroom based sessions and home study for 15-20 hours a week.

Credit Transfer and Recognition of Prior Learning

Credit transfer (CT) is defined in the AQF as follows:

• Credit transfer is a process that provides students with agreed and consistent credit outcomes for components of a qualification based on identified equivalence in content and learning outcomes between matched qualifications.

Recognition of prior learning (RPL) is defined in the AQF as follows:

• Recognition of prior learning is an assessment process that involves assessment of an individual’s relevant prior learning (including formal, informal and non-formal learning) to determine the credit outcomes of an individual application for credit.

This is underpinned by the AQF definition of credit as follows:

• Credit is the value assigned for the recognition of equivalence in content and learning outcomes between different types of learning and/or qualifications.
• Credit reduces the amount of learning required to achieve a qualification and may be through credit transfer, articulation, recognition of prior learning or advanced standing.

For further CT information visit: www.aqf.edu.au/sites/aqf/files/credit-transfer-explanation.pdf.

For further RPL information visit: https://www.aqf.edu.au/sites/aqf/files/rpl-explanation.pdf.

If you would like to apply for CT or RPL, please contact us.

Units of Competency (15)

• FSKRDG007 Read and respond to simple workplace information
• FSKRDG008 Read and respond to information in routine visual and graphic texts
• FSKRDG010 Read and respond to routine workplace information
• FSKWTG009 Write routine workplace texts
• SWERWT007 Read and write basic factual texts
• SWERWT009 Read and write routine transactional texts
• SWERWT012 Read and write routine narrative texts
• VU22366 Create simple texts for learning purposes
• VU22368 Create simple texts to participate in the community
• VU22388 Engage with texts of limited complexity for employment purposes
• VU22390 Participate in spoken interactions of limited complexity
• VU22393 Create texts of limited complexity to participate in the workplace
• VU22402 Undertake a simple investigation of health and wellbeing
• CSO201821 Work with diversity
• CSO201822 Understanding diversity

How You Will Be Assessed

Assessment (including recognition of prior learning) must:

• Meet the requirements of the relevant unit of competency, training package or accredited course, and
• Be conducted in accordance with the principles of assessment and the rules of evidence, and
• meet workplace and, where relevant, regulatory requirements.

For this course assessment will entail the following:

• Reading
• Writing
• Speaking
• Researching and projects

What Can I Study Next?

After successfully completing this course, you will be eligible to study the CHC33015 Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing and Disability Specialisation) with Macquarie Community College.

Delivery Mode

We offer training in formats that suit you and your workplace in accordance with the unit of competency, training package or accredited course.

This course is available in the following learning modes:

Classroom based: experienced and engaging trainers will take you through the course material face to face with an individual assessment for each unit of competency and a variety of delivery modes to ensure individual learning styles are catered for.

Please note: Government COVID-19 regulations and recommendations, including appropriate social distancing measures, hand washing and other hygiene protocols will be in place at all times and may result in course delivery changes.

Classroom learning for this course may include:

• text book references
• white board notes and visuals
• PowerPoint presentations
• DVD’s
• class discussions and group tasks
• case studies and scenarios
• practical simulation and group role play

Logistical Information

Government COVID-19 regulations and recommendations, including appropriate social distancing measures, hand washing and other hygiene protocols will be in place at all times and may result in course delivery changes.

Macquarie Community College operates from a range of venues across Northern and Western Sydney. We have campuses in Blacktown, Carlingford, Chatswood, Epping, Mt Druitt, Richmond, and Ryde. Enrol now!

Other areas of delivery assessed on request.