CHC43015 Certificate IV in Ageing Support for Existing Workers

Are you ready to transition from a direct care role into a supervisory position? Designed specifically for professionals currently working within the aged care, home care, or community care sectors, this advanced qualification provides the leadership tools and specialised knowledge required to progress your career.

If you already hold a Certificate III in Individual Support (CHC33015), you can fast-track your progression. Eligible students can receive direct credit transfers for up to 9 of the required 18 units of competency, significantly reducing your study load. This course will elevate your clinical knowledge, prepare you to supervise and mentor other care workers, and develop critical skills in the facilitation and review of individualised service planning.

Key Career Outcomes

Upgrading your qualifications opens up competitive, higher-paying leadership roles within residential and community care networks, including:

• Care Supervisor / Care Team Leader
• Hostel Supervisor
• Program Coordinator (Social Programs)
• Client Liaison Officer
• Advanced Residential Care Worker

Advanced Skills You Will Master

• Service Planning: Develop, facilitate, and review complex, individualised service delivery plans.
• Dementia & Palliative Care: Deliver specialized, high-tier care support utilizing advanced person-centered frameworks.
• Team Leadership: Gain the supervisory skills required to coordinate staff, manage rosters, and implement safety interventions for older people at risk.
• Empowerment Frameworks: Support the independence, relationships, and holistic wellbeing of clients and their families.

Flexible Course Delivery & Scheduling

We build our schedules around active industry shifts. This program is offered via part-time evening classes to protect your daytime work hours.

• Blended Learning Model: Training is delivered via a hybrid mix of scheduled virtual or campus classrooms, flexible directed self-study, and 120 practical work placement hours.
• Workplace Hour Recognition: If you are currently employed in a relevant care setting, your paid employment hours can count directly toward your 120-hour work placement requirement (employment verification and evidence required).
• Campus Requirements: If you choose to complete your theory components online via our virtual classroom, please note that you will still be required to attend an NBMC campus for specific practical skills training and assessments in our simulation rooms.
• Term Breaks: To help you maintain a sustainable work-life balance, there are no scheduled classes during NSW school holidays.

Digital & Virtual Classroom Requirements

This course utilises a split digital system: live interactive sessions run via Microsoft Teams, while course resources, templates, and assessments are managed through our Learning Management System (LMS).

We have a simple instructional video to help you get started, which can be viewed by clicking here.

Hardware Check: A smartphone or tablet is completely fine for viewing live Microsoft Teams lectures. However, you must have access to a desktop computer or laptop to download materials, edit tables, and submit your formal assessments.

Technical Prerequisites:

• A reliable internet connection, a functioning webcam, and a microphone.
• Access to Microsoft Word or Google Docs.
• A physical scanner or a smartphone scanning app.
• Digital Literacy: Students must be comfortable downloading and uploading document templates, creating/organising folders, utilising data tables within text files, and navigating windows quickly.

New to virtual learning? Students who are not already fully confident using the platform are required to watch our simple Microsoft Teams instructional video prior to their first formal session.

Fees, Funding & Enrolment

• NSW Government Subsidies: This training is proudly subsidised by the NSW Government for eligible students. Enquire today to check your funding status.
• Fee-Free Traineeships: This qualification can be completed via an official traineeship pathway. For new entrant trainees, the course cost is currently completely fee-free. To evaluate your eligibility, contact Mairead O’Leary on 9970 1001 or email mairead@nbmc.nsw.edu.au. You can also learn more about traineeships here – https://nbmc.nsw.edu.au/course-funding-option/traineeship/
• Competency-Based Assessment: Progress is monitored through a mixture of realistic case studies, practical demonstrations, and written projects. Clear feedback is provided, with formal reassessment pathways open if needed.

Comprehensive Student Support Network

At NBMC, we recognise that balancing work, life, and study can occasionally feel overwhelming.

• Learning Support: If you navigate a learning difficulty, disability, or language challenge, let our Training Coordinator know during your initial interview so we can implement a tailored learning support plan before classes commence.
• On-Campus Wellness: All enrolled students have completely free, short-term access to our dedicated Wellness Coordinator. If you encounter financial stress, personal struggles, or work pressures, your trainer can connect you to confidential counselling.

To Enrol or Request a Credit Transfer Evaluation

1. Start Your Application: Begin the enrolment process by completing the digital application form below.
2. Submit Your Transcripts: On receipt of your application, our Training Coordinator will reach out to evaluate your current Certificate III transcripts and map out your custom credit transfers.
3. Direct Contact: For immediate questions regarding course dates, modules, or traineeship pathways, connect directly with Mairead O’Leary on 9970 1001 or email mairead@nbmc.nsw.edu.au.

• This course has been structured specifically for those who have previously completed Certificate III in Aged Care, Certificate III in Individual Support or equivalent. If you have not completed any of these qualifications, talk to us about an alternative training pathway.
• Telephone or personal meeting with our Training Coordinator who will provide course information and answer your questions to ensure this is the right course for you before you enrol.
• Students will need to obtain a current National Police Check (less than 1 year old) prior to work placement. NSW Police Check
• Current Influenza Vaccination, if required by work place.
• Unique Student Identifier (see information below).
• Successful completion of an NBMC English language, literacy and numeracy quiz to determine that you have appropriate skills to successfully complete the course.
• COVID-19 vaccination as required by Public Health Orders and/or work placement facility requirements if work placement is required.
• National Police Background Check
• Provide copy of up to date vaccination records
• When completing First Aid student is required to have the ability to perform CPR while kneeling on the floor.

Recognition of Prior Learning

Northern Beaches & Mosman College recognises that you may be able to demonstrate a particular competency based on prior learning, skills gained in the workforce, or skills otherwise gained.

Recognition of prior learning (RPL) can be granted if you can demonstrate competency in all the elements and performance criteria of a particular unit of competency (from a training package) or all the learning outcomes in a particular module (from an accredited course).

If you think you may be eligible for RPL in a prospective course, please contact the College for an initial discussion as to your suitability at least 2 weeks before the course commences, or for late enrolments, you must advise the Training Coordinator on enrolment. Students then have 3 weeks to lodge a fully completed application with all supporting documentation.  Supporting and current evidence must be submitted with your application. It is the student’s responsibility to provide the evidence to support their claim for RPL. As RPL must be considered and assessed through one-on-one interaction between the applicant and assessor, the course fee remains the same (unless otherwise determined by a funding contract).

Applications received after this time will not be considered. Please be aware, if any of the training for units of competency for which you are applying for RPL are delivered while your application is still being considered, it is strongly recommended that you attend the related classes as we cannot guarantee that your application for RPL will be successful. As a guide the process will take between 2 and 4 weeks once your application has been submitted.

Steps in the RPL Assessment Process

If you decide you would like to investigate the possibility of RPL further:

Step 1 – Request a formal RPL Application Pack from NBMC

The pack will include an application form and details of the units of competency and competency skills required within the relevant qualification. The application must be fully completed with as much supporting documentation as possible before being returned to NBMC. Ensure that all the evidence that you provide is relevant to the units of competency for which you are applying for RPL. The more comprehensive the evidence is, the easier and faster the assessment process will be. You have 3 weeks on receiving the application to complete and return it to NBMC.

Step 2 – Conversation with Assessor

If required, the assessor will conduct a competency conversation with you. You will be required to answer questions related to the industry area to identify your current skills.

Step 3 – Practical demonstration of your skills

If required, the assessor will conduct a practical skills test at your workplace (if appropriate) or at another suitable venue. This, again, is an opportunity to demonstrate your level of competence. This assessment will be focussed on skills that are required in the qualification. Your assessor will identify the skills that he/she will want you to demonstrate.

Further steps

After the assessment, your assessor will give you information about the skills that have been recognised and whether you have gained any of units of competency applied for through RPL.

Credit Transfer

Northern Beaches & Mosman College recognises Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) qualifications and Statements of Attainment issued by other Registered Training Organisations (RTO) where the Training Package guidelines allow it.

If you have a current qualification from another RTO that you wish to seek credit for (towards a course offered by NBMC) you can apply to the College for recognition of this achievement, including Credit Transfer where appropriate.  You will be required to give permission to NBMC to verify the authenticity of the qualifications provided by contacting the issuing Registered Training Organisation or by checking your Unique Student Identifier records.

You must make this application within one week of the commencement of the course.

Credit Transfer may only be awarded for whole units of competence that meet the packaging rules of the Qualification they are enrolled in. Where a mapping guide identified a partial credit, this will not be considered for credit transfer, and the applicant will be advised to seek RPL.

To be awarded this qualification, a student must complete and demonstrate competency in all 15 core and 3 elective units.

The NSW and Federal Governments have signed an agreement to deliver more fee free vocational education places in NSW in 2025 and 2026. Funding is being rolled out in stages and for priority qualifications. The next funding period is for training to commence between 1 January 2026 and 31 December 2026.

To be eligible you must be:

• an Australian Citizen/Perm Resident/NZ citizen/humanitarian visa holder or a partner visa holder whose sponsor is a humanitarian visa holder
• aged 15 years or older, and
• live or work in New South Wales, and
• no longer be at school or equivalent (excluding registered home schooled)

If you meet the above criteria, along with the Course Entry Requirements, you can apply to study this course fee free (includes course resources). Fee-free places are subject to availability and cannot be guaranteed.

NOTE: NSW Fee Free applications for Semester 3 2026 are limited. Where NSW Fee Free applications are exhausted applications for subsidised enrolments under the Smart & Skilled Program are still being accepted. See fee structure below. No payment required until application has been approved.

This training is subsidised by the NSW Government.

For further information, please contact Mairead O’Leary, Training Coordinator at mairead@nbmc.nsw.edu.au or phone 9970 1001.

• A minimum of 120 hours of work placement is required – your paid workplace hours will contribute to this requirement.
• Some Work placement hours may be required to demonstrate clinical skills that cannot be demonstrated in your workplace.

There are many pathways you can follow into more specified fields of nursing once you gain this entry level qualification. The Certificate IV in Ageing Support provides a pathway to the Diploma of Nursing or other qualifications in the Health or Community Services Training Packages.

From 1 January 2015 it is a requirement of the Federal Government that all students undertaking nationally recognised training will need to obtain a Unique Student Identifier (USI). This involves an easy online application. See USI Fact Sheet for information on how to apply for a USI go to the Unique Student Identifier (USI) Website for additional information.

Please ensure when completing your enrolment information, that the details relating to your name are identical to those on the identification evidence (eg passport or driver’s licence) used when creating your USI, eg no abbreviations or nicknames should be used. Once created, it is important that you keep a record of your USI and access to your accredited training records in a safe place. You will need this information for any future enrolments into accredited training in Australia. Please contact the College on 9970 1000 if you require assistance.

All NBMC Trainers/Assessors are current industry professionals with the required qualifications to deliver and assess this course. Trainers draw upon and share their own experiences in the industry to ensure that the training delivered to you is current and relevant. For information about individual trainers, please click on the trainer name in the class details below for the trainer’s bio.

Enjoy smaller class sizes, a personalised relationship with your trainer, face-to face teaching sessions and qualifications that may include real life work experience, when you choose to study at Northern Beaches & Mosman College. (NBMC)

With classes available across the Northern Beaches and Lower North Shore in Brookvale and Mosman, the College offers increasing numbers of accredited and vocational qualifications. Students include those looking to upskill, to change career direction and school leavers keen to step onto a career pathway. Courses on offer can lead directly to employment and/or go towards future learning opportunities.