Community Services

This qualification reflects the roles of community services, case management and social housing workers involved in the managing, co-ordinating and/or delivering of person-centred services to individuals, groups and communities. At that level, workers have specialized skills in community services and work autonomously under comprehensive directions from senior management. Workers are usually providing direct aid to individuals or groups of individuals. Workers may even have responsibility for the supervision of other volunteers and workers and/or case management; application ethics or the growth of new business opportunities.Note that the Statutory & forensic child, youth & family impairment specialisationmust be performed in orderto meet the minimum education requirements for child protection and youth justice training in Victoria. Moreover, to meet the minimum education requirements for entrance into child protection training in Victoria, diploma qualifications must be approved by the Australian Community Workers Association (ACWA)To achieve this qualification, the candidate must have completed at least 100 hours of are detailed in the Assessment Requirements of components of competency.No licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements affect this eligibility during the time of publication.