Training Packages

There are two national Training Packages for community services and health industry sectors. They are the:

Community Services Training Package (national code CHC08)
Health Training Package (national code HLT07)

The Community Services Training Package & Health Training Package share some competencies across a number of qualifications. In addition, where relevant, the developers of the Training Packages have imported competencies from other industries training packages e.g. hospitality, transport, business etc.

Qualfications in the training packages include pre-vocational training at Certificate I level and Certificate II, III and IV qualfications for entry level training. Qualifications for more advanced job roles include Diploma and Advanced Diploma as well as Vocational Graduate Certificates and Vocational Graduate Diplomas.

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The Community Services Training Package includes qualifications in the following areas:

The Health Training Package includes qualifications in the following areas:

Active Volunteering
Aged Care
Alcohol and Other Drugs
Career Development
Celebrancy
Child Protection
Child, Youth and Family Intervention
Children's Contact Services Work
Children's Services
Community Development
Community Services Advocacy
Community Services Work
Counselling
Disability
Education Support
Employment Services
Financial Counselling
Home and Community Care
Leisure and Health
Management
Mediation
Mental Health
Outside School Hours Care
Pastoral Care
Relationship Education
Social Housing
Telephone Counselling Skills
Youth Work and Youth Justice
Youth Work and Juvenile Justice

Ambulance
Complementary and Alternative Health Care
Dental Assisting
Dental Technology and Dental Prosthetics
General Health Services Delivery
Health Technicians
Population Health

Skill Sets are nationally recognised units of competency or combinations of units of competency which link to a licence or regulatory requirement, or defined industry need. They are designed to build on a relevant qualification to build on or broaden a candidate's ability to undertake required or additional job roles.

Skill sets in the CHC08 training package include areas such as:	Skill sets in the HLT07 training package include areas such as:
Alcohol and other drugs Basic foot care Case management Chronic disease self-management Dementia support Disability work High support and complex care Leisure and recreation Medication assistance Mental health Palliative approach Problem gambling Social housing	Aromatherapy Audiometry Client safety Clinical coding Dental radiography First aid Infection control Nutrition and dietetics Occupational therapy Optical process work Podiatry Physiotherapy Reflexology Speech pathology X-ray operation

Details of both training packages are available from Community Services & Health Industry Skills Council www.cshisc.com.au