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CHC53315
Diploma of Mental Health
Course overview
- Duration: 12 Months
- Concession Price: $542.40*
- Non-Concession Price: $1,830.60*
- Nationally Recognised Qualification: Yes
- Delivery Mode: Fully Online & Face-to-Face Options
- Enrolling for last intake of 2022 - Only 10 Places Left - Enquire Today!
Gain skills and knowledge for future job prospects in Australia's
growing mental health sector.
Australia is currently facing a mental health crisis, with not enough workers to meet the demand for support.
Increased funding and support are helping the sector to add essential resources, services, and online training for frontline staff. But at the same time, we need more qualified Mental Health Workers to ensure vulnerable Australians have access to the support in the near and distant future.
And that’s where you come in.
The CHC53315 Diploma of Mental Health will provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to work in the mental health sector. You will learn how to assess and manage risk, provide support for people with complex mental health issues, and promote positive mental health outcomes.
Join One of Australia’s Highest Growing Job Sectors
1,809,700 people currently working in the mental health sector
250,000+ new jobs in the mental health sector by 2025
$2.3 Billion Investment Into Mental Health & Suicide Prevention.
CHC53315 Diploma of Mental Health
The CHC53315 Diploma of Mental Health will allow you to gain skills to provide services to people suffering from mental health. With this qualification you can support, counsel, refer and advocate positive mental health outcomes for individual clients and communities.
In this course you’ll learn to:
- Work with people with mental health issues
- Communicate with diverse groups of people from various social and cultural backgrounds
- Learn to create early intervention, health prevention and promotion programs
- Provide counselling and support to people affected by domestic and family violence, trauma coexisting mental illness and drug addiction
- Work collaboratively with a network of care services available to mental health suffers
Study this course with WA Government Funding.
From the 1st of January, 2020, the Department of Training and Workplace Development through their Jobs and Skills WA program, have reduced the course tuition cost of our courses by up to 97%.
Course Price
Concession Rate
$542.40*
Or $400 per year
Based on annual cap.
Non-Concession Rate
$1,830.60*
Or $1200 per year
Based on annual cap.
The Student tuition fees are indicative only and are subject to change given individual circumstances at enrolment. Additional fees may apply such as service and resource fees*
Study at our Perth CBD campus.
160 Hours Work Placement
Perth CBD Campus
12 Month Course
By studying through the Jobs and Skills WA subsidy you will be required to attend our Perth CBD campus 1 day per week.
Our face-to-face classes provide a fun and interactive setting to learn and develop your skills alongside like-minded students.
Located in Regional WA?
If you’re located outside of the Perth Metro area, you may be eligible to study this course fully online. Our student portal allows you to join live classes online and and watch recordings of previous classes.
As part of this course, you must complete 160 hours of work placement. TrainSmart Australia has a team of work placement coordinators that can assist you in finding placement opportunities to fulfil your required hours.
Course Structure
To achieve the CHC53315 Diploma of Mental Health at TrainSmart Australia you must successfully complete 20 units of competency and 160 hours of work placement.
Manage personal stressors in the work environment
HLTWHS006
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to maintain health and wellbeing by preventing and managing personal stress. This unit applies to work in a range of health and community services settings, in particular work roles that operate in high stress situations and circumstances.
Reflect on and improve own professional practice
CHCPRP003
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to evaluate and enhance own practice through a process of reflection and ongoing professional development. This unit applies to workers in all industry sectors who take pro-active responsibility for their own professional development.
Work with people with mental health issues
CHCMHS001
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to establish relationships, clarify needs, and then work collaboratively with people who are living with mental health issues. This unit applies to support workers in contexts outside the mental health sector, but who come into contact with people with mental health issues. The services and support provided are not mental health specific.
Work with diverse people
CHCDIV001
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to work respectfully with people from diverse social and cultural groups and situations, including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. This unit applies to all workers.
Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety
CHCDIV002
The unit describes the skills and knowledge required to identify Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety issues in the workplace, model cultural safety in own work practice, and develop strategies to enhance cultural safety. This unit applies to people working in a broad range of roles including those involved in direct client service, program planning, development and evaluation contexts.
Provide early intervention, health prevention and promotion programs
CHCMHS009
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to develop and conduct early intervention, health prevention and promotion programs focussing on mental health and wellbeing. This unit applies to work with people with mental illness in a range of community services work contexts.
Assess and promote social, emotional and physical wellbeing
CHCMHS011
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to work collaboratively with individuals to assess, promote and review all aspects of wellbeing. This unit applies to work with people living with mental illness in a range of community services work contexts.
Provide services to people with co-existing mental health and alcohol and other drugs issues CHCMHS005
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to assess capacity to support people with co-existing mental health and alcohol and other drugs issues and to work collaboratively to provide support and facilitate links to other services. This unit applies to work with people with co-existing mental health and alcohol and other drugs (AOD) assessments in a range of community services work contexts.
Research and apply evidence to practice
CHCPOL003
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to establish the information need, gather information and critically analyse the information for relevance to own work. This unit applies to health and community service workers who need to research existing information to support and improve their work practice. It does not cover primary research.
Provide systems advocacy services
CHCADV005
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to advocate and ensure that government, community and organisational systems broadly support and uphold human rights. This unit applies to workers in a health, community services or advocacy settings who undertake a leadership role in influencing social and system changes. Workers at this level will also advocate for change and continuous improvement at the organisational level to improve client outcomes and service quality.
Facilitate the recovery process with the person, family and carers
CHCMHS006
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to work collaboratively with a person with mental illness and/or AOD issues to establish a basis for participation of family and carers in their individual recovery process and to facilitate ongoing participation in line with the person’s needs and wishes. This unit applies to work with people with mental illness and/or AOD issues.
Counsel clients affected by domestic and family violence
CHCDFV006
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to use counselling and facilitation skills to explore client issues and identify possible options by providing a safe and supportive environment. It includes encouraging clients to be actively involved in seeking their own solutions. This unit applies to individuals whose job role involves working with clients on personal and psychological issues associated with domestic and family violence within established policies, procedures and guidelines.
Develop, facilitate and review all aspects of case management
CHCCSM005
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to undertake case management meetings to plan, monitor and review service provision. Workers at this level work autonomously and are responsible for own outputs within organisation guidelines. This unit applies to work in a range of health and community services contexts.
Implement trauma informed care
CHCMHS013
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to promote trauma informed care, and to develop strategies to address people’s specific trauma needs. Trauma informed care involves providing services that are informed by the knowledge and understanding of the impact of trauma, in particular interpersonal violence and varying service practice to reduce the likelihood of re-traumatisation. This unit applies to work with people with mental illness in a range of community services work contexts.
Provide support to develop wellness plans and advanced directives
CHCMHS012
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to support a person living with mental illness to develop recovery wellness plans and advanced directives. These plans outline the person’s preferences and plans to maintain wellness and to direct actions and support strategies should they become unwell. This unit applies to work with people with mental illness in a range of community services work contexts. Use of the term ‘advanced directive’ may vary between states and territories.
Manage work health and safety
HLTWHS004
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to establish, maintain and evaluate work health and safety (WHS) policies, procedures and programs in the relevant work area, according to WHS legislative requirements. This unit applies to workers who have responsibility for WHS as part of their role, including workers with obligations under WHS legislation, persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs), or their officers (as defined by relevant legislation).
Establish self-directed recovery relationships
CHCMHS002
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to promote the principles of recovery oriented practice, and to establish and confirm self-directed recovery relationships with people with mental illness. This unit applies to work with people living with a mental illness in a range of community services work contexts.
Provide recovery oriented mental health services
CHCMHS003
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to work collaboratively in providing services to implement a range of strategies as part of recovery oriented service provision for people with mental illness. This unit applies to work with people living with mental illness in a range of community services work contexts.
Work collaboratively with the care network and other services
CHCMHS004
This unit describes the skills knowledge required to work collaboratively with the care network and other potential services for a person with mental illness. This work provides a recovery oriented practice approach, involving a variety of health and community service professionals working collaboratively with the person and their care network. This unit applies to work with people living with mental illness in a range of community services work contexts.
Implement recovery oriented approaches to complexity
CHCMHS010
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to identify and respond to issues of complexity when supporting people living with mental illness and their care networks. The unit is based on a strengths-based approach and acknowledges that complexity is not a characteristic of an individual. Complexity may be impacted by a range of interactions between the worker, the organisation and the environmental context. This unit applies to work with people living with mental illness in a range of community services work contexts.
What jobs can I apply for after achieving this
qualification?
Case Manager
Salary: $85k
4,833 jobs on SEEK right now
Job Satisfaction: 4/5 stars
Support Worker
Salary: $60k 7, 383 jobs on SEEK right now Job Satisfaction: 4/5 stars
Program Service Manager
Salary: $80k 413 jobs on SEEK right now Job Satisfaction: 4/5 stars
University Pathways
TrainSmart Australia Diploma courses are Nationally Recognised Qualifications. This means they can be recognised by Australian Universities for entry into some of the degrees, and you can use our Diploma’s for credit transfer as well! The amount of credit transfer will vary depending on the degree you enrol into, and the units you complete in our courses.
TrainSmart Australia has a number of standing agreements in place with universities across Australia which guarantees student entry and credit transfers upon completion of a selection of our diploma’s.
Available Options
Diploma of Mental Health
CHC53315Bachelor of Psychological Science
-
120 Credit Points *
* subject to a detailed assessment upon commencement
Why study with TrainSmart Australia?
1. Quality Trainers
Learn alongside our professional training team, selected for their wealth of experience and knowledge in their chosen subject areas.
2. Extensive Student Support
Our Trainers and Student Support team are committed to seeing our students succeed by giving regular support and check-ins to ensure progress through this course.
3. Free Career Counseling
All our students have access to free career counselling from our trained career advisers, who’ll guide you in your course selection and work placement according to your background, prior knowledge and career aspirations.
About TrainSmart Australia.
TrainSmart Australia has provided leading education since 2005. All our courses are approved, accredited, and nationally recognised by both the government and relevant industry bodies, which means you’ll be ready to hit the ground running.
We pride ourselves on our stellar reputation and commitment to helping our students get their foot in the door of their chosen industry.
CHC53315
Diploma of Mental Health
Government Funding Available
Concession Price: $542.40*
Non-Concession Price: $1,830.60*
- Enrolling for last intake of 2022 - Only 4 Places Left - Enquire Today!
Trainer Directed Learning
Perth CBD Campus
Government Subsidised
Study the CHC53315 Diploma of Mental Health
The CHC53315 Diploma of Mental Health will allow you to gain skills to provide services to people suffering from mental health. With this qualification you can support, counsel, refer and advocate positive mental health outcomes for individual clients and communities.
In this course you’ll learn to:
- Work with people with mental health issues
- Communicate with diverse groups of people from various social and cultural backgrounds
- Learn to create early intervention, health prevention and promotion programs
- Provide counselling and support to people affected by domestic and family violence, trauma coexisting mental illness and drug addiction
- Work collaboratively with a network of care services available to mental health suffers
By studying with TrainSmart Australia, you’ll be presented with many opportunities to develop and practice your counselling and communication skills before entering the workplace.
Study this course with WA Government Funding.
From the 1st of January, 2020, the Department of Training and Workplace Development through their Jobs and Skills WA program, have reduced the price of this course by 97% from the standard cost.
Course Price
-
Concession Rate $542.40*
-
Non-Concession Rate $1,830.60*
160 Hours
Work Placement
Perth CBD Campus
12 Month Course
Study at our Perth CBD Campus
By studying through the Jobs and Skills WA subsidy you will be required to attend our Perth CBD campus 1 day, per week.
Our face-to-face classes provide a fun and interactive setting to learn and develop your skills alongside like-minded students.
Study in Regional WA
If you’re located outside of the Perth Metro area, you may be eligible to study this course fully online. Our student portal allows you to join live classes online and and watch recordings of previous classes.
As part of this course, you must complete 160 hours of work placement. TrainSmart Australia has a team of work placement coordinators that can assist you in finding placement opportunities to fulfil your required hours.
*Classes are being delivered fully online for the remainder of 2022 due to Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic precautions.
Course Structure
To achieve the CHC53315 Diploma of Mental Health at TrainSmart Australia you must successfully complete 20 units.
Our face-to-face classes are structured to teach you the theoretical components of each unit and also prepare you for your practical assessments.
Approximately 2-3 weeks are spent in class on each unit.
Mental Health Essentials: Module 1
Manage personal stressors in the work environment
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to maintain health and wellbeing by preventing and managing personal stress. This unit applies to work in a range of health and community services settings, in particular work roles that operate in high stress situations and circumstances.
Reflect on and improve own professional practice
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to evaluate and enhance own practice through a process of reflection and ongoing professional development. This unit applies to workers in all industry sectors who take pro-active responsibility for their own professional development.
Work with people with mental health issues
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to establish relationships, clarify needs, and then work collaboratively with people who are living with mental health issues. This unit applies to support workers in contexts outside the mental health sector, but who come into contact with people with mental health issues. The services and support provided are not mental health specific.
Work with diverse people
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to work respectfully with people from diverse social and cultural groups and situations, including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. This unit applies to all workers.
Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety
The unit describes the skills and knowledge required to identify Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety issues in the workplace, model cultural safety in own work practice, and develop strategies to enhance cultural safety. This unit applies to people working in a broad range of roles including those involved in direct client service, program planning, development and evaluation contexts.
Mental Health Essentials: Module 2
Provide early intervention, health prevention and promotion programs
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to develop and conduct early intervention, health prevention and promotion programs focussing on mental health and wellbeing. This unit applies to work with people with mental illness in a range of community services work contexts.
Assess and promote social, emotional and physical wellbeing
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to work collaboratively with individuals to assess, promote and review all aspects of wellbeing. This unit applies to working with people living with mental illness in a range of community services work contexts.
Provide services to people with co-existing mental health and alcohol and other drugs issues
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to assess capacity to support people with co-existing mental health and alcohol and other drugs issues and to work collaboratively to provide support and facilitate links to other services. This unit applies to work with people with co-existing mental health and alcohol and other drugs (AOD) assessments in a range of community services work contexts.
Research and apply evidence to practice
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to establish the information need, gather information and critically analyse the information for relevance to own work. This unit applies to health and community service workers who need to research existing information to support and improve their work practice. It does not cover primary research.
Mental Health Essentials: Module 3
Provide systems advocacy services
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to advocate and ensure that government, community and organisational systems broadly support and uphold human rights. This unit applies to workers in a health, community services or advocacy settings who undertake a leadership role in influencing social and system changes. Workers at this level will also advocate for change and continuous improvement at the organisational level to improve client outcomes and service quality.
Facilitate the recovery process with the person, family and carers
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to work collaboratively with a person with mental illness and/or AOD issues to establish a basis for the participation of family and carers in their individual recovery process and to facilitate ongoing participation in line with the person’s needs and wishes. This unit applies to working with people with mental illness and/or AOD issues.
Counsel clients affected by domestic and family violence
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to use counselling and facilitation skills to explore client issues and identify possible options by providing a safe and supportive environment. It includes encouraging clients to be actively involved in seeking their own solutions. This unit applies to individuals whose job role involves working with clients on personal and psychological issues associated with domestic and family violence within established policies, procedures and guidelines.
Develop, facilitate and review all aspects of case management
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to undertake case management meetings to plan, monitor and review service provision. Workers at this level work autonomously and are responsible for own outputs within organisation guidelines. This unit applies to work in a range of health and community services contexts.
Implement trauma informed care
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to promote trauma informed care, and to develop strategies to address people’s specific trauma needs. Trauma informed care involves providing services that are informed by the knowledge and understanding of the impact of trauma, in particular interpersonal violence and varying service practice to reduce the likelihood of re-traumatisation. This unit applies to work with people with mental illness in a range of community services work contexts.
Provide support to develop wellness plans and advanced directives
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to support a person living with mental illness to develop recovery wellness plans and advanced directives. These plans outline the person’s preferences and plans to maintain wellness and to direct actions and support strategies should they become unwell. This unit applies to work with people with mental illness in a range of community services work contexts. Use of the term ‘advanced directive’ may vary between states and territories.
Mental Health Essentials: Module 4
Manage work health and safety
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to establish, maintain and evaluate work health and safety (WHS) policies, procedures and programs in the relevant work area, according to WHS legislative requirements. This unit applies to workers who have responsibility for WHS as part of their role, including workers with obligations under WHS legislation, persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs), or their officers (as defined by relevant legislation).
Establish self-directed recovery relationships
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to promote the principles of recovery-oriented practice, and to establish and confirm self-directed recovery relationships with people with mental illness. This unit applies to work with people living with a mental illness in a range of community services work contexts.
Provide recovery oriented mental health services
Work collaboratively with the care network and other services
This unit describes the skills knowledge required to work collaboratively with the care network and other potential services for a person with mental illness. This work provides a recovery oriented practice approach, involving a variety of health and community service professionals working collaboratively with the person and their care network. This unit applies to work with people living with mental illness in a range of community services work contexts.
Implement recovery oriented approaches to complexity
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to identify and respond to issues of complexity when supporting people living with mental illness and their care networks. The unit is based on a strengths-based approach and acknowledges that complexity is not a characteristic of an individual. Complexity may be impacted by a range of interactions between the worker, the organisation and the environmental context. This unit applies to work with people living with mental illness in a range of community services work contexts.
What jobs can I apply for after achieving this qualification?
Case Manager
Salary: $78k
6,142 Jobs on SEEK right now
Job Satisfaction: 4/5 stars
Support Worker
Salary: $70k
9,637 Jobs on SEEK right now
Job Satisfaction: 4/5 stars
Job insights sourced from (SEEK.com)
University
Pathways
TrainSmart Australia Diploma courses are Nationally Recognised Qualifications. This means they can be recognised by Australian Universities for entry into some of the degrees, and you can use our Diploma’s for credit transfer as well! The amount of credit transfer will vary depending on the degree you enrol into, and the units you complete in our courses.
TrainSmart Australia has a number of standing agreements in place with universities across Australia which guarantees student entry and credit transfers upon completion of a selection of our diploma’s.
Diploma of Mental Health
CHC53315-
120 Credit Points *
Why study with TrainSmart Australia?
1. Quality Trainers
Learn alongside our professional training team, selected for their wealth of experience and knowledge in their chosen subject areas.
2. Extensive Student Support
Our Trainers and Student Support team are committed to seeing our students succeed by giving regular support and check-ins to ensure progress through this course.
3. Free Career Counselling
All our students have access to free career counselling from our trained career advisers, who’ll guide you in your course selection and work placement according to your background, prior knowledge and career aspirations.
About TrainSmart Australia
TrainSmart has provided leading education since 2005.
All our courses are approved, accredited, and nationally recognised by both the government and relevant industry bodies, which mean you’ll be ready to hit the ground running.
We pride ourselves on our stellar reputation and commitment to helping our students get their foot in the door of their chosen industry.
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