BLOG
Information Sharing
Worker’s Name: Caroline
Organisation/Service/Project: BAMN
Initiative/Project:
Community Care Services
- Training/Workshops:
NEW COURSE PROVIDES
INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY
CARE SERVICES
CARE SERVICES
September 18 2013
Bankstown Area Multicultural Network Inc (BAMN).is
taking new recruits for an innovative course that creates a career path for
people with English as a second language to enter the Home and Community Care
Services Sector of NSW
Introduction to Home and Community Support Services, funded by NSW
Government’s Ageing, Disability and Home Care and delivered via TAFE NSW and
Macarthur Disability Services (MDS), is a new model of education that will
provide an understanding of the jargon and structure of the sector, two units
of competency and mentored work experience, all necessary for working in the
community care sector.
Students will undertake 10 weeks of learning, four of which
will involve work experience at local community services.
The mix of both theory and real life experience in this course was a
response to the sector’s call for workers with a genuine sense of what working
in community services is all about.
Students will learn about taking care of people living with
disabilities, mental illness and the needs of the aged and carers in need of
assistance. The aim of the course is to effectively equip and inspire these
students, of all ages, to be confident to participate in this rewarding career
path.
BAMN, a community advocacy organisation in Sydney South West, has been
long aware of the needs of the community services sector to access a qualified
bilingual and bicultural workforce.
At the same time, BAMN has also identified barriers experienced by
people for whom English is not their first language.
We are recruiting
people from CALD backgrounds, young or older. As older person your
life experience is advantage in this sector. The course has been designed especially
for people whose first language is not English, as we want to encourage
cultural diversity amongst our care givers in community services to compliment
our ageing multicultural communities.
There are twelve places available and an Application is required.
No comments:
Post a Comment