Personal Care Aides: where your skills can take you
Provide personalized assistance to individuals with disabilities or illness who require help with personal care and activities of daily living support (e.g., feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, and ambulation). May also provide help with tasks such as preparing meals, doing light housekeeping, and doing laundry. Work is performed in various settings depending on the needs of the care recipient and may include locations such as their home, place of work, out in the community, or at a daytime nonresidential facility.
Usual study level (from US data): Cert II–III (TAFE, often Fee-Free; apprenticeship/traineeship routes count) · National Police Check; NDIS Worker Screening for disability work
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Three moves that use what a personal care aide already knows
Ranked by how much of the job's skills and knowledge carries over. Each one says what the move usually costs in study.
Nursing Assistants
🧰 Your current job already uses looking after customers and clients, reading people, working in step with other people and managing your own time.
🎓 A certificate or diploma. The most common level in Australia is a certificate or diploma (49%).
🪪 National Police Check; NDIS Worker Screening for disability work
🔎 Find courses for this job on training.gov.au ↗
Provide or assist with basic care or support under the direction of onsite licensed nursing staff. Perform duties such as monitoring of health status, feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, or ambulation of patients in a health or nursing facility. May include medication administration and other health-related tasks. Includes nursing care attendants, nursing aides, and nursing attendants.
Occupational Therapy Aides
🧰 Your current job already uses looking after customers and clients, reading people, teaching other people and working in step with other people.
🎓 A certificate or diploma. More study than your current job. The most common level in the US is some college, a certificate or an associate degree (61%).
🪪 Health employers usually ask for a National Police Check
🔎 Find courses for this job on training.gov.au ↗
Under close supervision of an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant, perform only delegated, selected, or routine tasks in specific situations. These duties include preparing patient and treatment room.
Psychiatric Aides
🧰 Your current job already uses looking after customers and clients, reading people, teaching other people and working in step with other people.
🎓 A certificate or diploma. The most common level in Australia is a certificate or diploma (49%).
🪪 National Police Check; NDIS Worker Screening for disability work
🔎 Find courses for this job on training.gov.au ↗
Assist mentally impaired or emotionally disturbed patients, working under direction of nursing and medical staff. May assist with daily living activities, lead patients in educational and recreational activities, or accompany patients to and from examinations and treatments. May restrain violent patients. Includes psychiatric orderlies.
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