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

CARE FOR A FUTURE

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.

Applicants under 20 years

• Have achieved NCEA Level 1; or
• Any approved qualification at Level 3 or above on the New Zealand Qualifications Framework

Applicants 20 years or over

• Must be able to demonstrate skills for tertiary study that have been acquired through study, work and/or life experience

Other Requirements
All applicants must be prepared to authorise a current police check to ensure suitability. The Vulnerable Children Act 2014 will prohibit students with “specified offences” from working with children in some roles and this may hinder their ability to complete the qualification/s. Students should check whether their convictions apply. A full list of the specified offences can be found here (search for “specified offences”).

Applicants for whom English is not a first language must have and IELTS score of 5.5 with no band score lower than 5; or an accepted international equivalence. 

*This course is not available to international students.

NorthTec is part of Te Pūkenga – New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology (Te Pūkenga). Te Pūkenga brings the Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs) and the arranging training activities of certain Industry Training Organisations (ITOs) together to create a national network.

As one national network, Te Pūkenga will provide flexible, career-focused learning that fits around your life – on-the-job, on campus and online. Helping our people, our communities and our workforces grow and thrive together.

NorthTec has campuses and learning centres in Whangarei, Ngāwhā/Kaikohe, Kerikeri, Dargaville and Kaitaia. 

We’re transforming lives right here in Te Tai Tokerau, Northland so whether you imagine yourself as a chef, a nurse, or dream of getting a job in a trade, check out our over 100 programmes and enrol now for a brighter future.