Health and Wellbeing (Healthcare Assistance)

This is a high-demand sector with lots of rewarding job opportunities. With this qualification you will be able to work as a healthcare assistant in a range of contexts including acute care, primary care, aged residential care and therapeutic programmes. Or stay on for Level 4 and boost your skills.

Yes! As part of your course we spend time working on interview and CV-writing skills to make sure you leave us work ready. We also bring in speakers from industry to talk to you about what today’s employers expect. As well as this, our tutors have great industry connections and can introduce you to potential employers.

Yes! 100 hours of the course are spent on a clinical placement at an aged care or disability facility, organised by Skills Institute. This is one of the features that puts our healthcare assistant courses ahead. 

You might be eligible to study for free! Talk with our Student Support Team to find out. If not, you may be eligible for loans and allowances, and we can help you with that.

If you are aged between 16 and 19, yes! If not, we can help you to identify assistance you might be entitled to.

Your course runs Monday to Friday – 9 am until 1 pm.

This course is 22 weeks.

The New Zealand Certificate in Health and Wellbeing Level 3 is NZQA-approved worth 71 credits.

Yes, it is.

Not if you enrol on the face-to-face programme. You need to be employed only if you want to do this course online.

We know juggling study with work or family can be tough, but you won’t be doing it alone. Our friendly team can help you find a routine and study strategies that work for you. 

Nothing! We will even provide you with a uniform when you go on work experience.

This course includes lots of practical training in our dedicated healthcare clinics. Some of the highlights include learning how to take blood pressure, care of injuries, palliative care and understanding cultural differences.

You’ll learn how to use a hoist, how to make a bed to hospital standards, and you’ll become familiar with all the equipment typically used in a hospital or aged care facility. Gain basic first aid skills i.e. wound management, learn to communicate with patients, go on site visits and listen to guest speakers.