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Accounting Unit 1: Role of accounting in business, Unit 2: Accounting and decision-making for a trading business, Unit 3: Financial accounting for a trading business, Unit 4: Recording, reporting, budgeting and decision-making

Art Creative Practice Unit 1: Interpreting artworks and exploring the Creative Practice, Unit 2: Interpreting artworks and developing the Creative Practice, Unit 3: Investigation, ideas, artworks and the Creative Practice Artworks ideas and values, Unit 4: Interpreting, resolving and presenting artworks and the Creative Practice Artworks, ideas and viewpoints

Biology Unit 1: How do organisms regulate their functions?, Unit 2: How does inheritance impact on diversity?, Unit 3: How do cells maintain life?, Unit 4: How does life change and respond to challenges?

Business Management Unit 1: Planning a business, Unit 2: Establishing a business, Unit 3: Managing a business, Unit 4: Transforming a business

Chemistry Unit 1: How can the diversity of materials be explained?, Unit 2: How do chemical reactions shape the natural world?, Unit 3: How can design and innovation help to optimise chemical processes?, Unit 4: How are carbon-based compounds designed for purpose?

English Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4

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English as an Additional Language Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4

Literature Unit 1, Unit 2 , Unit 3, Unit 4

Economics Unit 1: Economic decision-making, Unit 2: Economic issues and living standards, Unit 3: Australia’s living standards, Unit 4: Managing the economy

Environmental Science Unit 1: How are Earth’s dynamic systems interconnected to support life?, Unit 2: What affects Earth’s capacity to sustain life?, Unit 3: How can biodiversity and development be sustained?, Unit 4: How can climate change and the impacts of human energy use be managed?

Food Studies Unit 1: Food origins, Unit 2: Food makers, Unit 3: Food in daily life, Unit 4: Food issues, challenges and futures

Global Politics Unit 1: Politics, power and political actors, Unit 2: Democracy: stability and change, Unit 3: Global cooperation and conflict, Unit 4: Power in the Indo-Pacific

Health & Human Development Unit 1: Understanding health and wellbeing, Unit 2: Managing health and development, Unit 3: Australia’s health in a globalised world, Unit 4: Health and human development in a global context

History Units 1 & 2: Empires , Units 3 & 4: Revolutions

Languages French, Japanese, Units 1 & 2: , Units 3 & 4:

Legal Studies Unit 1: Guilt and liability, Unit 2: Sanctions, remedies and rights, Unit 3: Rights and justice, Unit 4: The people, the law and reform

Mathematics overview Pathways for studies in Mathematics , Exams

General Mathematics

Mathematics Methods

Specialist Mathematics

Foundation Maths

Media Unit 1: Media forms, representations and Australian stories , Unit 2: Narrative across media forms , Unit 3: Media narratives, contexts and pre-production , Unit 4: Media production; agency and control in and of the media

Music Units 1 & 2: Music, Units 3 & 4: Music Repertoire Performance, Units 3 & 4: Music Contemporary Performance, Units 3 & 4: Music Inquiry

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Outdoor & Environmental Studies Unit 1: Connections with outdoor environments, Unit 2: Discovering outdoor environments, Unit 3: Relationships with natural environments, Unit 4: Sustainable outdoor environments

Physical Education Unit 1: Bodies in motion, Unit 2: Physical activity, sport and society, Unit 3: Movement skills and energy for physical activity, Unit 4: Training to improve performance, Video presentation

Physics Unit 1: How is energy useful to society?, Unit 2: How does physics help us to understand the world?, Unit 3: How do fields explain motion and electricity?, Unit 4: How have creative ideas and investigation revolutionised thinking in physics?

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Product Design & Technology Unit 1: Sustainability redevelopment of a product, Unit 2: Collaborative design, Unit 3: Applying the product design process, Unit 4: Product development and evaluation

Psychology Unit 1: How are behaviour and mental processes shaped?, Unit 2: How do internal and external factors influence behaviour and mental processes?, Unit 3: How does experience affect behaviour and mental processes?, Unit 4: How is wellbeing developed and maintained?

Sociology Unit 1: Youth and family, Unit 2: Social norms: breaking the code, Unit 3: Culture and ethnicity, Unit 4: Community, social movements and social change

Theatre Studies Unit 1: History of theatre styles and conventions pre-1945, Unit 2: Contemporary theatre styles and movements, Unit 3: Producing theatre, Unit 4: Presenting an interpretation

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Visual Communication Design Unit 1: Finding, reframing and resolving design problems, Unit 2: Design contexts and connections, Unit 3: Visual communication in design practice, Unit 4: Delivering design solutions

About VET VCE VET studies offered

Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance

Certificate II in Animal Care

Certificate II in Apparel, Fashion & Textiles

Certificate III in Beauty Services

Certificate II in Dance

Certificate III in Early Childhood Education & Care

Certificate III in Events

Certificate II in Hospitality

Certificate III in Information Technology (Games Stream)

Certificate III in Laboratory Skills

Certificate III in Music (Performance)

Certificate III in Sport, Aquatics & Recreation

Certificate III in Tourism

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Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance

Campus: Holmesglen, Moorabbin Campus. Wednesday afternoons

Assessment: Scored (partial completion)*

Code: HLT33015

This Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance gives you a chance to commence your studies as an Allied Health Assistant or an Assistant in Nursing. The first year of the two-year part time course is a generic year that all students complete. Students will be required to undertake some units after the completion of their VCE/VCE VM program if they wish to receive the full qualification.

The course will be delivered through a mixture of online activities, classroom delivery and laboratories, including in a state of the art allied health laboratory, community apartment and a simulated hospital environment. You will learn using role plays, simulations, project work and a total of 80 hours of structured workplace learning over two years (40 hours per year), which will be undertaken in a variety of healthcare settings, including medical, sub-acute, acute, community and rehabilitation areas.

Completion of the Certificate produces workers who provide assistance to physiotherapy professionals, and registered and enrolled nurses. Workers at this level operate under direct supervision and do not conduct programs or therapeutic interventions.

Job roles include: Therapy Assistant, Physiotherapy Assistant, Allied Health Assistant, Assistant in Nursing, Health Services Assistant.

Year 1

Provide First Aid
Communicate and work in health or community services
Participate in workplace health and safety
Comply with infection prevention and control policies and procedures
Assist with movement
Organise personal work priorities and development
Maintain a high standard of service
Respond effectively to behaviours of concern

Year 2

Interpret and apply medical terminology appropriately
Recognise healthy body systems
Take clinical measurements

Holmesglen Course Information

Holmesglen Certificate III Allied Health Assistance

https://holmesglen.edu.au/Courses/Community-and-Health-Sciences/Allied-Health/Certificate-III-in-Allied-Health-Assistance-VET-Delivered-to-Secondary-Students/

Assessment

Scored assessment is available for this study. Students wishing to receive an ATAR contribution for this study must undertake the scored assessment. As a scored VET study this subject will contribute to the student's ATAR, either as one of the student's top 4 studies (the 'primary four') or as a 5th or 6th study increment.

* Students will be required to undertake some units after the completion of their VCE or VCE VM course if they wish to receive the full Certificate III qualification.