CHC40413 Certificate IV in Youth Work

Do you enjoy working with and assisting young people?

Working with youth is a rewarding and challenging career, where you can make a big difference to the lives of children and young people. Learn how to create programs designed to address the social, behavioural, health, welfare, developmental and protection needs of young people while working to legal and ethical requirements. You will undertake a supervised or simulated work placement where you will be able to apply the skills and knowledge you have learned.

You will develop skills in:

• developing and facilitating community education and development
• communication and networking
• advocating effectively
• case work and report writing
• understanding legal and ethical requirements
• planning, developing and implementing youth programs and
• implementing policies and guidelines.

Students may choose to enrol in extra units and gain Dual Qualifications – CHC42015 Certificate IV in Community Services and CHC40413 Certificate IV in Youth Work at Certificate IV level.

CHC42015 Certificate IV in Community Services

This qualification reflects the role of community service workers who design and deliver person-centred services to individuals and/or groups. Workers may provide support, advocacy or interventions to individual clients, groups or communities across a range of services.

At this level, workers may be autonomous with limited responsibility within established parameters and may be required to supervise and lead other workers in projects or teams. Work may take place in a range of community service, case work or case management contexts.

CHC40413 Certificate IV in Youth Work

This qualification reflects the role of workers who develop and facilitate programs for young people through a range of community-based programs designed to address the social, behavioural, health, welfare, developmental and protection needs of young people.

This work may be undertaken through employment in community, government and youth sector agencies and workers will be:

• responsible for implementing policies and guidelines of the employing organisation
• largely self-directed with fairly autonomous decision-making capacity under the indirect supervision of a manager.