New Zealand Certificate in Health and Wellbeing (Peer Support) (Level 4)
Course details
| NZQF Level | 4 |
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About the course
The purpose of this qualification is to provide the peer support services within the health and wellbeing sectors with people who can draw on the strengths and resilience they have gained from their own lived experiences to support others experiencing challenge and disempowerment to increase their autonomy and self-determination.
This qualification is targeted at people who have gained strength and resilience from their lived experience of challenge and disempowerment and wish to support others with similar experiences.
Entry requirements
Candidate for this qualification should be aware that employees and volunteers working in the health and wellbeing sectors are required to undergo initial and ongoing checks to ensure they are a fit and proper person to provide support.
Candidates for this qualification must have had personal experience of challenging and disempowering life experiences and the ability to demonstrate the value, learning and resilience that they have gained from these experiences.
Such challenging and disempowering life experiences are varied and can include, but are not limited to, experiences such as mental distress, addiction, significant health conditions, trauma, and disability or engagement with services and the wider system which compound challenging and disempowering life experiences.
About the provider
Start a career and contribute to New Zealand’s social good The growing and vital health and wellbeing sectors have a shortage of qualified workers. There are significant employment opportunities for young people to start a lifelong, rewarding career. Through on-the-job training such as an apprenticeship, there’s an opportunity to earn while you learn, get practical skills and work towards achieving a nationally recognised qualification without taking on a student loan.
Careerforce is the Industry Training Organisation (ITO) for the health, wellbeing, social and community sectors, we support New Zealand workplaces to run workplace training programmes for their staff.
Visit the Careerforce website for more information: https://www.careerforce.org.nz/