CHC30113 - Certificate III In Early Childhood Education And Care

Looking for a fun and rewarding career? Are you passionate about inspiring children to grow and develop in their early years?

With the childcare industry currently experiencing a skills shortage, now is the perfect time to take the next step in your future career. This nationally recognised training is the entry level qualification required to work in the early childhood education and care sector.

You will learn how to:

• Provide care for babies and toddlers
• Develop positive and respectful relationships
• Support children to connect with their world
• Support the holistic development of children
• Provide experiences to support play and learning
• Provide emergency first aid in an education and care setting
• Develop cultural competence and promote safety
• Organise personal work priorities and development
• Promote and provide healthy food and drinks
• Participate in workplace health and safety and ensure the health and safety of children
• Identify and respond to children and young people at risk

You will be guided by our highly skilled and industry current trainers who will help you develop the personal and professional skills required to start your career in this rewarding industry.

The course includes a minimum of 120 hours of work placement, where you will practice and hone your skills and knowledge in the early childhood education and care industry. You’ll get ample opportunities to develop your skills in simulated work environments in the classroom which will prepare you for work placement.

It also provides invaluable opportunities to develop relationships with local facilities that will open doors to a variety of roles such as working as an Early Childhood Educator Assistant, Family Day Care Educator or Nanny.

This course is being offered as a subsidised course to eligible students under the Smart and Skilled program. Applications for these subsidised places are limited so a funded place cannot be guaranteed.

Entry Requirements

There are no formal entry requirements for this qualification.

Admission / Desirable Requirements

• Learners must be aged 17 years or older.
• When studying with Byron Community College, we want you to succeed. Entry requirements allow us to ensure you have the pre-existing knowledge and skills required to complete your qualification. This course involves reading and undertaking a range of written assessments. A full list of admission / desirable requirements is available in the course Information Pack, please call or email the college for details.

Work Placement

You are required to complete 120 hours of work placement in a host education care facility that formally contributes to the assessment process. This includes the need to collect and use information from the work placement as part of your overall assessment. Work placement is mandatory and an assessable component of the course. The college will assist you to arrange work placement, including providing a list of local facilities who take on students regularly to complete their work placement. Students are required to communicate with the college and tutor prior to undertaking any contact with work placement facilities.

Course Duration & Hours

• 33 week duration
• Classes are delivered face to face
• Two days of classroom and onsite learning 9:00am – 3:30pm per week
• One day of directed home study per week
• Half day private study / research per week
• 120 hours work placement from term 2
• Delivery location: Mullumbimby Campus
• Classes will not be held during NSW school holidays
• Full time workload would be 24 hours per week for 33 weeks

Course Fees

• Smart and Skilled Fee-Free Scholarship – $0
• Smart and Skilled Concession fee – $240
• Smart and Skilled Fee (No Prior Qualification) – $1,600
• Smart and Skilled Fee (2nd Qualification) - $1,930
• Full fee: $3,200
• Concession: $3,000
• Early Bird: $2,750 (deposit to be received by Friday 15th January 2021)

• This training is subsidised by the NSW government
• This course is Austudy Approved

Smart and Skilled funded places may be available for these qualifications – please call the college for more information on 02 6684 3374

Subsidised Training under Smart and Skilled

This course is being offered as a subsidised course to eligible students under the NSW Government Smart and Skilled program. Smart and Skilled is a reform of the NSW Vocational Education and Training (VET) system. It’s helping people in NSW get the skills they need to find a job and advance their careers. Many of our full qualifications have full or part fee subsidies available for eligible students.

To apply for a Smart and Skilled Fee-Free Scholarship place you must:

• Be an Australian citizen or hold a permanent residency or humanitarian visa status
• Live or work in New South Wales
• Be aged between 15-30 years of age
• Provide evidence of your concession-eligibility

To apply for a Smart and Skilled Concession (S&S Concession) place you must:

• Be an Australian citizen or hold a permanent residency or humanitarian visa status
• Live or work in New South Wales
• Provide evidence of your concession-eligibility

To apply for a Smart and Skilled Full Fee (S&S Full Fee) place you must:

• Be an Australian citizen or hold a permanent residency or humanitarian visa status
• Live or work in New South Wales

Applications for these subsidised* places are limited so a funded place cannot be guaranteed.

Payment Plan
Course fees are paid in instalments scheduled throughout the duration of the course. Fee schedules for individual courses are outlined on the enrolment paperwork available through the college administration team.

Student Story – Jennifer Pletzer

"Last year my partner and I were traveling around Australia, when he decided to study Permaculture and found the best suited course at the Byron Community College.
I chose to have a browse through the College’s Brochure to see which course might appeal to me and found the Certificate III for Early Childhood Education and Care.
It made me get excited about our move to Mullumbimby. I have always worked with children but never actually thought about getting a degree or similar.

I have now just finished my Certificate III, the first Certificate I have ever finished since Highschool 10 years ago, and I am so excited about all the opportunities this has opened up to me and I have already started working as a full time nanny.

Thank you Jud and thanks Byron Community College.

I highly recommend this course to anyone working with children or even just planning to have children as it helps understand these little beings on a new level and gets you excited about the smallest milestones reached. Good times."

Student Policies and Procedures

See Student Handbook

USI

From the 1st of January 2015, any student enrolling in an Accredited Training course will be required to obtain a USI. The USI helps to keep your training records and results together in an online account which is controlled by you. You can logon to the USI website and follow the simple instructions online to create your USI. This then needs to be provided to the College at the time of enrolment.

Important Information

Once your enrolment is completed you will receive a confirmation email. This email will be your receipt and inform you of the dates, time and venue of your course, it will also let you know of anything you need to take to class with you. Please make sure that you give us a valid email address and mobile number as any course changes will be communicated via sms or email.

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