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Sharpen existing skills, or gain new ones, and make a meaningful impact in your workplace.
Our micro-credentials are quick and affordable, allowing you to reskill and/or upskill in short timeframes to meet the needs of employers and industry. These competency-based learning opportunities are an efficient and economical way to build on your existing experience or adopt new knowledge. Education, without the price tag of a full degree!
Cornzal’s strong and authentic partnerships with various stakeholders and professional bodies equip us to deliver current, best-practice, industry-/sector-aligned curricula.
Upon completion of a micro-credential, you will be awarded a digital badge – a verifiable credential of the knowledge and skills acquired. You can then present this badge to organisations for corroboration or carry it in your digital wallet. You will also receive a downloadable Certificate of Completion.
Enquire today so we can tailor a micro-credential program that best suits your specific needs. This might include clustering units or mixing and matching delivery modes!
Micro-Credentials and Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
Micro-credentials may contribute towards RPL, in accordance with the requirements of Skills Certified Australia. RPL allows you to obtain a nationally recognised qualification by demonstrating skills and experience in a particular field of work. RPL is an assessment method that relies on your experience and education in a given industry.
Health & Community Services
The below micros are community services industry-relevant, applicable in such contexts as Disability and Aged Care. A proportion of these micros correspond with NDIS-defined high intensity support skills.
Health & Community Services
Basic Foot Care
Better understand how you as a support worker are uniquely placed to assist your client to have the healthiest feet possible. Upskill today.
PD00001 RPL up to CHCCCS013
Bowel Management
Build your confidence to deliver bowel care, including to individuals at risk of severe constipation or faecal incontinence.
PD00002
Carer Support - Practising Self-Care
Learn to prioritise self-care to be in the best condition for yourself and others.
Chronic Pain Management
Learn to support your clients to manage their chronic pain and enjoy a better quality of life.
Complex Care
Develop a holistic skillset covering various competencies to support clients with complex care needs.
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP)
Improve your understanding of why a client may need CPAP, how you can confidently support them, and how to care for devices and consumables.
PD00003
Dementia Awareness
Empower people living with dementia and their carers to make informed decisions about support services and living with dementia.
PD00004 RPL up to CHCAGE005
Diabetes Awareness & Monitoring
Learn to take care of your client living with diabetes, including understanding diabetes type 1 and 2 and factors that affect blood glucose levels, and assisting with medication.
PD00005
Enteral Feeding
Further develop your current knowledge and skills to support clients who are reliant on enteral feeding (otherwise known as ‘tube feeding’), and those who experience difficulty swallowing (dysphagia).
PD00006
Epilepsy, Seizure Management & Midazolam Administration
Enhance your understanding of epilepsy, seizure management and administration of Midazolam.
PD00007
Infection Control
Refresh or develop new skills in effective infection prevention and control. Grow your understanding that this is central to providing high-quality care for clients and a safe, hazard-free environment for those who work in healthcare settings.
PD00008 – RPL up to HLTINF001;
HLTINF003
Managing Chronic Illness
Learn to support your client to relieve or manage symptoms of chronic illness.
Manual Handling
Manual handling training gives employees the skills to safely undertake manual handling tasks, reducing their risk of injury. Refresh your skills in injury prevention, manual handling communication, and use of slide sheets, sling lifters and floor transfer.
PD00009 – RPL up to HLTWHS003
Medication Awareness & Safety
Build the confidence to assist your client with safe dispensing of correct medication.
PD00010 – RPL up to HLTHPS006
NDIS Support & Package Management
Learn to navigate the NDIS and understand your rights and responsibilities as an accessor of NDIS funds.
Oxygen Therapy & Suctioning Support
Develop your knowledge and skills to safely care for clients receiving oxygen and oral suctioning therapy.
PD00011
Palliative Care
Develop your skills and confidence to work alongside qualified health professionals who care for people with a life-limiting illness.
PD00012 – RPL up to CHCPAL002
Pressure Injury Prevention
Grow your knowledge of strategies to reduce pressure on vulnerable areas of the body and the injuries that can result (such as pressure injury ulcers). Better understand skin integrity and overall good health.
Subcutaneous Injections
Build your confidence to administer medications where a person is unable to self-administer. Understand two levels of responsibility: use of pens and pumps to administer predosed medication, and calculating and measuring required doses.
Tracheostomy Support
Build your confidence to support those clients living at home with a long-term tracheostomy in place.
PD00014
Urinary Catheter Support
Better understand urinary catheter care, including use of indwelling or suprapubic catheters, and enable your client to live a normal life with a long-term catheter.
PD00013
Ventilator Support
Develop your understanding of ventilation, including types of breathing masks and appropriate use of equipment/components for non-invasive ventilation.
Wound Care
Improve your knowledge of wound management, including indications of infection.
Business
The below micros are Business and HR relevant.
Adaptability & Flexibility in the Workplace
Adaptability and flexibility are sought-after attributes in the workplace. Enhance your capacity to cope with change in an increasingly technological and globalised age.
Benefits of Strategic Planning
Understand the advantages of defining where your organisation is, where it plans on going, and how it will get there.
Billing & Administration
Understand health practitioners’ billing obligations under Medicare.
Change Management Process & Protocols
Develop your understanding of communicating and implementing change within your organisation to best support individuals and teams.
Communicate Effectively with People with Disability
Understand that language and tone are important for promoting clarity and empathy when communicating with people with disabilities.
Cultural Inclusiveness, Responsiveness & Competence
Learn to foster a culturally safe environment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples built on shared understanding of identity, mutual respect, rejection of bias, and communicating sensitively.
Customer Service & Support
Learn to motivate your customers to keep coming back by understanding their needs and how to build positive relationships.
Developing & Applying Emotional Intelligence
Understand how to recognise emotions of the self and others and use those insights to inform productive thinking and behaviour in the workplace
Developing Operational Business Plans
Learn to create plans that operationalise your business strategy.
Diversity in the Workplace
Enhance your understanding that workplaces are increasingly dimensionally diverse spaces by way of race, ethnicity, religion, culture and gender identity.
Effective & Influential Workplace Leadership
Understand that the best, most influential leaders are those that build resilience in themselves and others by converting reflection to action.
Employability Skills
Enhance your work-ready skills and attributes, as well as your self-confidence, to increase your value in the world of work.
Engage in Workplace Communication
Learn to communicate effectively and powerfully with those around you by setting clear expectations and resolving disputes when they occur.
Interpret & Apply Medical Terminology Appropriately
Learn to communicate with clients in a medical environment using appropriate terminology.
Maintain Patient Records
Develop your awareness of administrative record-keeping guidelines for health professionals that promote efficiency and transparency in healthcare practices.
Management/Security of Documents
Develop your awareness of key practices underpinning regulation of document access to heighten management and security.
NDIS & the Psychosocial Workforce
Gain knowledge vital for you as an NDIS psychosocial worker, including around the mental health system.
NDIS Workforce Basics
Learn how you as an NDIS support worker can best navigate the system, including understanding your obligations under the NDIS Code of Conduct.
Organise Personal Work Priorities
Learn to effectively plan, schedule and prioritise your work to increase efficiency and quality of outputs.
Privacy & Confidentiality
Understand the difference between privacy and confidentiality and learn to mitigate associated risks.
Professional Communication & Negotiation
Learn to communicate assertively to express your viewpoint and find common ground with other parties.
Safe Workplaces for Supervisors of Apprentices & Trainees
As an employer/supervisor, you are obligated to ensure the safety of apprentices and trainees in the workplace. Understand your responsibilities.
Supporting Mental Health in the Workplace
Understand that mental health is pervasive and impacts many, if not all, Australians. Learn to promote good mental health and manage risks to mental health in the workplace.
Supporting Sexual & Gender Identities in the Workplace
Learn to create an inclusive environment for LGBTQIA+ workers. Understand the importance acknowledging and valuing the lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ people in the workplace.
WHS Incident Handling & Analysis
Understand your legislative duties around incident handling, how to obtain relevant information, and how to implement response procedures.
Workplace Resilience & Wellbeing
Learn to contribute to a positive workplace culture where you and others want to come to work.
