Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance

Entry requirements

There are no formal entry requirements for this course.

Selection criteria

You need to meet one of the following requirements:

• Year 10 level of education or equivalent  
• Mature-aged entry with work experience in a related field

Placement

Future students are advised that access to public and private health facilities or organisations in your State for vocational placement assessment may require evidence of commencement or full vaccination for COVID-19.

If you are not currently employed or volunteering in industry, during your course you will be required to complete vocational placement so you can start practicing your new skills in a real-world environment. You’ll be required to work shifts determined by your placement provider, and these can include early mornings or late nights, any day of the week, including public holidays. TAFE Queensland may be able to assist in arranging suitable placements.

Completing placement is compulsory, and you will be expected to manage family and work commitments in order to complete your shifts. You are required to complete 80 hours of placement.

Depending on your Vocational placement workplace students may be required to have the following:

• Australian Federal Police Check (this is the preferred Police check for our placement providers), students will need to provide a copy of your police clearance or evidence the process has commenced. A Blue Card is not accepted in place of a National Police Check.
• Blue Card: Commission for Children and Young People Act 2000 (Qld) contains a new law to help ensure that people seeking to work with children are suitable. This is called 'the working with children check'. Any person wanting to work in regulated employment, as a paid employee, a volunteer, or a person carrying on a regulated business, will have to fill out a Blue Card application form consenting to a criminal history check prior to his or her appointment or engagement (See ‘Relevant Documents below).

Further details can be obtained at the following link for Blue Card Services or by telephone on 1800 688 275 (Free call). Students will be unable to attend Vocational Placement until they hold a valid Blue Card.

Please note: TAFE Queensland wishes to warn you, as a Blue Card applicant, that it is an offence for a disqualified person to sign a Blue Card application.  For further information regarding 'disqualified' persons, please contact Blue Card Services.

To complete the blue card or exemption card application process you will need to:

1. Prepare your application form online from here. Please see this Blue Card and exemption card application information sheet for all details that you will need to complete this document.
2. Download and print a copy of your application once completed.
3. Have your identification documents checked and verified by an authorised  representative from our organisation.
4. Make sure our organisation’s representative has signed the application form, and listed the identification documents sighted 
5. Submit your completed application to a TAFE Queensland representative.  

Once enrolled the application will be lodged with Blue Card Services for processing and final approval.   It is to your advantage to have a Blue Card before commencing study. 

Students will need to be immunised against Hepatitis B and have a flu vaccination. Vaccinations are recommended for Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR), Tuberculosis, Varicella Zoster Virus (chickenpox) and Pertussis (whooping cough). Refer to the Queensland Health Student Health Professionals' Clinical Placement placement Package and Fieldwork Orientation Package for details.

If your police check identifies that you have a criminal history or you are unable to obtain a Blue Card, you may be disqualified from being eligible to undertake placement and assessment, which would affect your course outcomes. If you think this might impact you, please speak to the relevant Vocational Placement Coordinator for further information.

Need to know

For all students who are undertaking courses that include Vocational Placements in a high risk workplace, Queensland Health has directed that students must declare your COVID-19 Vaccination status and evidence to either TAFE Queensland or the placement provider. 

This may require you providing us or the placement provider information on:

• Your vaccinate status
• Last date of vaccination
• Evidence of vaccine status

Where this information will be collected as part of your application and / or enrolment process.  Any data collected will be managed under the TAFE Queensland Privacy Policy.

This requirement is in place for all students in affected courses, including TAFE at School students.

Those students who have a medical contraindication may be unable to complete the vocational placement component of their course. This means you may not be able to meet all of the requirements of your course and may not be able to graduate or receive your qualification.

Future students are advised that access to public and private health facilities or organisations in your State for vocational placement assessment may require evidence of commencement or full vaccination for COVID-19.

If you have a current First Aid Certificate (HLTAID011) this may be used as a credit transfer decreasing your study load.