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Australia's aged care sector is short of workers and unforgiving of unprepared ones. This program builds the readiness layer around the qualification: what the Aged Care Quality Standards actually require of you, how to support someone without stripping their dignity, what to do when a resident is distressed, and how to write a progress note that stands up to review. The nationally recognised certificate and any supervised placement are delivered by Genutive's registered partner providers — Genutive prepares you for that work, and does not issue their qualification.
Every week has its modules, a learning outcome, and an assessed submission with a deadline.
Week 1
How the aged care system is structured and funded, and why that shapes your shift; the Aged Care Quality Standards translated into what you do; dignity, autonomy, and the right to take risks; consent, capacity, and substitute decision-makers; recognising elder abuse and neglect, and your reporting duty; privacy of health information; professional boundaries and gifts.
By the end of this week you can
Explain, in plain language a family member would understand, what a resident is entitled to and what you are obliged to do.
Assessed this week
Written scenario responses on consent, dignity of risk, and a suspected-abuse disclosure. Quiz on the Quality Standards and reporting obligations. Due end of week 1.
Week 2
Reading a care plan and working to it; supporting activities of daily living — showering, dressing, grooming — without taking over; safe manual handling principles, transfers, and equipment; falls prevention; nutrition, hydration, and swallowing risk; continence support with dignity; pressure injury prevention; infection prevention and control including outbreak conditions.
By the end of this week you can
Take a real care plan and describe, step by step, how you would support that person through a morning safely and respectfully.
Assessed this week
Care-plan interpretation task plus a recorded or written manual-handling and personal-care walkthrough marked against a competency checklist. Due end of week 2.
Week 3
Dementia types and progression; delirium and why mistaking it for dementia is dangerous; responsive behaviours as communication; de-escalation and what to do before restrictive practice is ever considered; supporting people with hearing, vision, or speech difficulties; working with families who are grieving in advance; cultural safety, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural safety and working with people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
By the end of this week you can
Respond to a distressed resident in a way that de-escalates the situation without restricting them, and explain your reasoning afterwards.
Assessed this week
Behaviour scenario response with a written rationale, peer-reviewed within your cohort group. Due end of week 3.
Week 4
Progress notes that are factual, objective, and useful; incident reporting; clinical handover and what must never be left out; recognising deterioration and escalating to the nurse in charge; work health and safety, fatigue, and shift work; your own wellbeing and vicarious grief; police checks, worker screening, immunisation expectations, and what employers ask at interview.
By the end of this week you can
Document a shift so that the next worker and a quality auditor both get what they need from it.
Assessed this week
Capstone: an integrated shift scenario — care delivery decisions, an incident, an escalation, and the resulting documentation — reviewed by a tutor panel. Job-readiness pack and interview practice. Due end of week 4.
A Genutive Industry Ready Certificate for this pathway, showing the assessed components and your Merit Score, plus a published project showcase and a rebuilt resume.
Yes — all modules, live sessions, and assessments are online. Where a program has a supervised practical component, that part is arranged with a partner provider and is explained in the curriculum for the week it falls in.
It depends on the program, and the consultation is where that gets checked properly. Some pathways assume an existing qualification or trade background; others are entry points. We would rather turn you away than take a fee for a program you cannot complete.
You can enrol from anywhere. Employment, internship, and any supervised practical component depend on your work rights and location, which your advisor will go through with you before you commit.
Based on consultation
Confirmed in your consultation — see Pricing for why we do not publish a single figure.
Book a consultationSign in to EnrolCandidates who reach Career Ready become visible to employers in the Genutive network, with their Merit Score and capstone attached. Introductions depend on employer demand and on your right to work in that market. No placement is guaranteed.
Consultation-led — not instant enrolment
Programs listed here are delivered through partner providers and advisor-led consulting pathways. Certification outcomes depend on program completion and assessment requirements. Genutive does not guarantee employment or visa approval.
Four weeks, online, with the same rhythm every week so you can plan around it.
Two scheduled live sessions each week with the program tutor — one teaching session and one working session for questions, code or case review, and feedback. Sessions are recorded. Tutor time is deliberately limited: it is there for the parts that need a person, not to re-read the modules to you.
Each week releases a set of modules with readings, walkthroughs, and practice tasks. Expect eight to twelve hours of self-paced work a week on top of the live sessions.
A short knowledge check closes each week's modules. You see your result immediately, and you can retake it until you pass — but only the first attempt counts toward your Merit Matrix quiz score.
Every week has a submitted piece of work with a deadline. Tutors mark it and return written feedback. Late submissions are accepted and marked, but on-time submission is what the Merit Matrix rewards.
The final week is a capstone reviewed by a tutor panel. It becomes the centrepiece of your project showcase, which is visible on your Genutive profile.
You are placed in a small peer group for the four weeks. Some tasks are collaborative and peer-reviewed, and collaboration is a scored component of the Merit Matrix — because it is the part of the work employers complain is missing.
Your Merit Score is calculated from four components. It is not a participation award, and it follows you into the job marketplace where employers can see it.
Tutor-marked weekly tasks and the capstone. The largest component, because it is the closest thing to the actual job.
Attendance at the scheduled live sessions. Recordings help you catch up on content, but they do not earn attendance.
First-attempt results on the weekly knowledge checks.
Peer review you give and receive, and contribution to group tasks.
A Merit Score of 70 or above moves your enrolment to Career Ready. That is the point at which the employer network, internship consideration, and marketplace visibility open up. Below 70 you keep the certificate of completion and can be reassessed, but Career Ready is a threshold, not a formality.
Internship placement is offered to successful candidates only. "Successful" means you complete the program and reach the Career Ready threshold of 70 on the Merit Matrix. Even then, a placement depends on a partner or employer having a suitable position open at the time, in a location where you hold the right to work. Genutive does not guarantee an internship, and does not guarantee a job. What we do guarantee is that you will be visible to the employers in our network with real, assessed evidence attached to your name rather than a claim on a resume.
A Genutive Industry Ready Certificate naming the program, the assessed components, and your Merit Score. It records what you actually did, which is why we can put the score on it.
Your capstone is published to your Genutive profile with the tutor panel's review, so an employer can look at the work rather than take your word for it.
A resume rebuilt around what you can now evidence, plus interview practice for the specific roles the program targets.
Career Ready candidates become visible to employers in the Genutive network and can be matched to roles in the job marketplace.
Program fees are set during your consultation. They depend on the program, your starting point, and whether a partner provider is delivering a regulated component alongside it — so a single advertised price would be misleading more often than it was accurate. The consultation is where you find out the fee, and there is no obligation attached to it.
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