Gain the skills and knowledge you need for a rewarding career and employment in an early childhood setting. Learn to use organisation policies, procedures, and individual children's profiles to plan activities and provide care to children, facilitating their leisure and play and enabling them to achieve their developmental outcomes.

For those who are already working as an early childhood educator, this course will enable you to upskill your current qualifications to be leadership ready! The Diploma will enable you to gain advanced skills to enable you to assist in developing, implementing and evaluating programs for children in a sensitive, caring and ethical way. You will learn how to supervise staff and volunteers and to work as a director or service manager.

Completion of this skill set course contributes towards satisfying the entry requirements for the Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care. For individuals who hold superseded qualifications at Certificate III or Diploma level but cannot demonstrate the required 12 months of cumulative employment within the last 5 years in a regulated education and care service