Children's Services

Life Skills

Lara Community Centre is able to offer the Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care in conjunction with Bellarine Traing and Community Hub, Ocean Grove.

Classes are run at the Lara Community Centre. Call the Centre to register your interest.

Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care (CHC50113)

Course Information:

This qualification reflects the role of early childhood educators who are responsible for designing and implementing curriculum in early childhood education and care services. In doing so they work to implement an approved learning framework within the requirements of the Education and Care Services National Regulations and the National Quality Standard. They may have responsibility for supervision of volunteer or other staff.
Job opportunities consist of:

Kindergarten assistant
Room leader
Nanny
Before/After school care
School holiday programs
Daycare centre
Family daycare/coordinator
Family daycare educator
Field worker
Child protection
Education Department
A Victorian Police and Working with Children Checks are required within this industry.

Pathways:

Pathways options for you once you have completed a Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care are enrolling into a Bachelor of Education.

Course Mode:

The course is conducted in a classroom, with self-paced research, study components and requires an industry placement. Assessment is based on competency; this will involve a combination of assessment methods. These assessments are written assignments, discussion, interviews, workplace projects, role play and practical demonstrations. The various delivery methods have been designed following consultations with industry, learners and other stakeholders.

Training will be conducted at the Bellarine Training and Community Hub – 1 John Dory Drive Ocean Grove or at one of our selected learn local Neighbourhood Centre under the auspice of Bellarine Training and Community Hub within your community.

You will be required to complete 240 hours of unpaid practical placement during or at the end of the course. Bellarine Training and Community Hub will source a placement that meets the requirements of the learner.
A learner who is currently working within the industry of the area they wish to study, The learner may be offered the course as a self-paced off site study option. The learner will have at a minimum fortnightly contact with a qualified trainer.

Units of Study

Unit Code	Unit Name	Core/Elective	Nominal Hours
CHCLEG001	Work legally and ethically	Core	55
CHCECE001	Develop cultural competence	Core	70
CHCECE002	Ensure the health and safety of children	Core	63
CHCECE003	Provide care for children	Core	70
CHCECE004	Promote and provide healthy food and drinks	Core	35
CHCECE005	Provide care for babies and toddlers	Core	60
CHCECE007	Develop positive and respectful relationships with children	Core	70
CHCECE009	Use an approved learning framework to guide practice	Core	70
CHCPRT001	Identify and respond to children and young people at risk	Core	40
HLTAID004	Provide an emergency first aid response in an education and care setting	Core	20
CHCDIV002	Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety	Core	25
CHCECE016	Establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children	Core	50
CHCECE017	Foster the holistic development and wellbeing of the child in early childhood	Core	240
CHCECE018	Nurture creativity in children	Core	80
CHCECE019	Facilitate compliance in an education and care service	Core	120
CHCECE020	Establish and implement plans for developing cooperative behaviour	Core	50
CHCECE021	Implement strategies for the inclusion of all children	Core	50
CHCECE022	Promote children’s agency	Core	80
CHCECE023	Analyse information to inform learning	Core	70
CHCECE024	Design and implement the curriculum to foster children's learning and development	Core	170
CHCECE025	Embed sustainable practices in service operations	Core	60
CHCECE026	Work in partnership with families to provide appropriate education and care for children	Core	70
HLTWHS003	Maintain work health and safety	Core	40
BSBLED401	Develop teams and individuals	Elective	120
CHCPRP003	Reflect on and improve own professional practice	Elective	120
CHCPOL002	Develop and implement policy	Elective	90
BSBINN502	Build and sustain an innovative work environment	Elective	50
CHCMGT003	Lead the work team	Elective	100
SITXFSA101	Use hygienic practices for food safety	Additional	15
Total			2073

Student services
Please refer to our learners handbook:
Our aim at BTACH is:

Provide quality training meeting the needs and outcomes of our learners
To offer smaller classes
To provide the best opportunities for students to interact with the trainer
To allow for flexible training and learning
To encourage student participation in discussions
To provide a safe non-threatening nurturing environment for learning

Time frame:

Daytime: This course runs for 36 weeks x 2 days a week plus a 240 hour student placement within an Early Childhood Centre.

Classes are run at the Lara Community Centre. The training organisation is Bellarine Training and Community Hub.

Course costs in 2019

The student tuition fees are indicative only and subject to change given individual circumstances at enrolment. Fees may also change in line with Government fees and charges policy.

Fees listed below are inclusive with no hidden costs, and no more to pay. $200.00 enrolment deposit is required at time of booking to confirm enrolment.

A payment plan options are available for students enrolling in our courses with fortnightly payments required. Students must meet funding and concession eligibility to claim.

Where students are to attend placement BTACH trainers will organise these placements in consultation with the student.

	Funded	Unfunded
Tuition	$452.76	$4405.00
Admin	$100.00	$100.00
Books	$497.24	$495.00
Total	$1050.00	$5000.00

Eligibility for Government Funding

The Victorian Training Guarantee

The Victorian Training Guarantee (VTG) is making vocational education and training more accessible to people who do not hold a post-school qualification, or who want to gain a higher level qualification than they already hold.
This entitlement to a Victorian government subsidised place in recognised national training can be accessed at any time and will continue to be available for training at successively higher levels.
For all enrolments, individuals accessing the Victorian Training Guarantee will only be eligible to commence a maximum of two courses/qualifications at the same Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) level in their lifetime. Individuals will also only be eligible to commence a maximum of two accredited courses with the title ‘Course in…’ in their lifetime.
Please contact one of our enrolment team to assess if you are eligible for VTG funding.

Unique Student Identifier (USI)
From 1 January 2015, if you are undertaking nationally recognised training delivered by a registered training organisation, you will need to have a Unique Student Identifier (USI). You only need to apply once and you keep the USI for your lifetime.

To apply for your USI please go to http://www.usi.gov.au/

Victorian Student Number (VSN)
The Victorian Student Number (VSN) is a student identification number that will be assigned by the Department of Education and Training (DET) to all students in government and non-government schools, and students in Vocational Education and Training Providers.

The number, which is unique to each student, will be used as a key identifier on a student’s records, and will remain with the student throughout his or her education, until reaching the age of 25.
The VSN provides DET with the capability to accurately detect patterns of student movement through, and departure from, the Victorian education and training system. It improves the collection and analysis of timely and accurate data about education in Victoria.