Diploma in Health & Wellbeing (Mental Health & Addiction)
Auckland, New Zealand
Diploma
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Mar 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: Learn to provide quality mental health and addiction services to individuals and whānau in Auckland. Over 40 weeks, you'll gain skills to engage clients, whānau/supporters and stakeholders, communicate with clinicians, and work independently or under supervision. You'll apply transferable skills in assessment, support planning and delivery across community-based support, iwi health providers, social services, youth work and advocacy.
Career Outcomes: This Diploma prepares you for roles as a support worker, caseworker, peer support worker or community mental health worker in iwi health organizations, youth services, NGOs, residential services and advocacy organizations. Employers include community providers, NGOs and advocacy groups.
Learn how to provide quality mental health and addiction services to individuals in need, as well ashelp peoples' family. Workindependentlyas practitioners, or under the supervision of professionalor qualified clinicians. Set yourself up for a career in this growth industry.
You will learn the knowledge and skills required to communicate and engage with clients, whānau/supporters, and other stakeholders in a mental health and addiction services toindividualsin need, aswell as support their whānau and family.
Over 40 weeks,you will apply the transferable skills and knowledgegained to provide high quality mental health and addiction services to those in needand help to support their whänau through the delivery of services as a support workerin areas such as community-based support services, iwi health providers, mentalhealth support, social services, youth work and consumer advocacy.
