New Zealand Certificate in Health and Wellbeing (Social and Community Services) (Level 4) (Disability Support) [Version 2]

Overview

By emphasising the importance of autonomy and overcoming challenges, this programme equips you for meaningful roles such as disability support worker, health care assistant or as a worker in an individualised funding contract. You'll develop practical strategies to empower others while fostering professionalism, leadership, and self-awareness.

Career Opportunities

Graduates of the Disability Support strand may work in roles such as disability support workers, disability information consultants, and disability case workers.

What will you learn

Graduates of this qualification will be able to:

• Engage and communicate with tangata, family and/or whānau accessing social and community services in a manner which respects their socio-cultural identity, experiences and self-knowledge.
• Apply knowledge of Te Tiriti o Waitangi to honour the history and context of Māori as tangata whenua and apply knowledge of person-whānau interconnectedness to own role in a health and wellbeing setting.
• Demonstrate self-awareness, reflective practice, personal leadership and self-care in a health and wellbeing setting.
• Actively contribute to a culture of professionalism, safety and quality in a health and wellbeing organisation.
• Use knowledge of the aims and purpose(s) of the wider health and wellbeing sectors to reflect on their impact on own role.

Graduates of Disability Support will be able to:

• Apply disability tools and strategies when working alongside tangata, family, and/or whānau to support autonomy, identify goals and opportunities to overcome challenges to enable good lives

For more information on this programme please read our FAQs

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