New Zealand Certificate in Health and Wellbeing (Social and Community Services) (Level 4)

Summary

Overview

*Subject to NZQA approval.

To provide students with the skills and knowledge to work with clients who have mental health and addictions needs.

If you want to work alongside people and whānau across the health and wellbeing sectors, including mental health and addiction support work, this programme is for you. You’ll learn all the tools and strategies to foster hope, support recovery and build resilience in individuals and families.

Graduates of this programme are able to:

• engage and communicate with people, family and/or whānau accessing social and community services in a manner which respects their socio-cultural identity, experiences and self-knowledge
• relate the history of Māori as tangata whenua and knowledge of person-whānau interconnectedness to own role in a health and wellbeing setting
• display self-awareness, reflective practice and personal leadership in a health and wellbeing setting
• actively contribute to a culture of professionalism, safety and quality in a health and wellbeing organisation
• relate the purpose and impact of own role to the aims of the wider health and wellbeing sector.

Graduates of the Mental Health and Addiction Support strand will be able to:

• work alongside people, family and/or whānau in a mental health addiction setting to support autonomy by using tools and strategies to foster hope, support recovery and build resilience.