Certificate IV

Almost all industries require a Work Health and Safety (WHS) professional in the team

This course will provide you with the skills to develop a career as a WHS professional.

After completing this qualification, you will be able to work as a health and safety practitioner and become responsible for the corresponding WHS functions within a workplace.

Minimum requirement in industry for WHS practitioners is usually the Certificate IV in Work Health and Safety.

 Gain these skills

• Risk assessment
• WHS compliance and legal requirements
• Incident response
• Return to work programs

Are you ready to turn a dream into a flourishing business?

When you complete the Certificate IV in Entrepreneurship and New Business you will have the practical understanding of what it takes to run a successful small business.

Gain these skills:

• develop a viable business plan
• understand your legal requirements and responsibilities
• manage business finances
• market new business ventures

Do you want a career among tomorrow's business leaders?

When you complete the Certificate IV in Business you will have a practical foundation to take you into a number of business and corporate careers: office management, start-up business planning and marketing, and customer service.

Gain these skills:

• manage customer needs and feedback
• develop and promote products and services
• play a supporting role in the recruitment of staff
• make presentations to groups
• work in effective teams
• workplace health and safety

Play a crucial part in the success of an organisation

This course is a great starting point if you would like to work with people in a business environment.

The role of Human Resources is to ensure that an organisation's most valued assets, its people, are engaged and well supported in their working environment.

This course will provide you with the skills and knowledge to work in a variety of roles across a range of Human Resources functions. You will gain skills in areas of; staff recruitment, induction and training, workplace health and safety procedures, supporting the HR team with performance management and industrial relations procedures.

Are you ready for an electronics career helping others get the message?

When you complete the Certificate IV in Electronics and Communications you'll be well on your way to a career as an electronic technician.

Gain these skills:

• assemble, test, maintain, and troubleshoot a range of electronic components and devices
• fault-find in power supplies, amplifiers, communications systems, digital and microcontroller systems
• write and test programs to control external devices
• utilise workplace health and safety and sustainability practices

Do you want to make a difference for communities?

If you enjoy helping people and like working in a team then a career in community services could be for you.  There is an ongoing skill shortage in this industry so employment prospects are high.

You will gain the knowledge and skills to communicate and work effectively in the community services sector, promoting social, emotional and physical wellbeing, responding to critical situations, responding to children at risk, assisting collective action, working with cultural diversity, ethical behaviour and legal responsibilities.

Are you passionate about the care of pets and want to build a career working day to day with a range of animals and creatures great and small? This course will give you the job ready skills to become a fully qualified Veterinary Nurse or Animal Welfare Worker.

Playing an essential role in animal health care, a Veterinary Nurse dedicates their daily work to maintaining and monitoring the welfare and wellbeing of sick animals. Be guided by from our expert team of lecturers who are professionals in the field as you learn how to assist Veterinarians with surgery procedures on animals both pre and post-operation.

Develop clinical skills in administering anaesthesia and medication, radiology (x-ray), dental procedures, nutrition and applying bandages to wounds. Build knowledge of how to nurse animals back to health and providing advice and support to animal caregivers, as well as daily tasks such as keeping equipment clean and sterilised.

Vet nurses are in high demand and you can work in a range of diverse settings such as at a veterinary clinic, animal hospital, specialist clinic, in wildlife rescue or at a zoo.

Gain these skills:

• work effectively in a veterinary practice
• provide care to a wide variety of animals
• assist with surgery preparation and procedures
• perform pathology and imaging procedures
• provide post-surgery care and advice
• workplace safety and health

Develop your supervisory skills for the horticulture industry

This qualification will provide you with the practical skills and knowledge to coordinate and supervise operations in your chosen field of horticulture. You can choose to learn skills from a range of subjects that enable you to cost and supervise projects, develop and implement programs and provide training. You can also choose subjects that will further develop your technical expertise in horticulture.

Gain these skills:

• cost a project
• implement a maintenance program for hydroponic systems
• schedule irrigations
• identify plant specimens
• recommend plants and cultural practices
• perform specialist amenity pruning
• design plant displays
• plan a plant establishment program
• control weeds
• sample soils and interpret results
• produce complex desktop published documents

Step into a health care supervisory role

When you complete the Certificate IV in Sterilisation Services you will be better equipped in the management of a sterilisation department.

This course covers a range of varied activities performed in a sterilising service or department and is for managers and supervisors working in a sterilising department.

 Gain these skills

• implement and monitor infection prevention and control policies and procedures
• clean and disinfect reusable medical devices
• inspect and pack reusable medical devices
• sterilise loads
• manage sterile stock
• care for reusable medical devices
• monitor quality of cleaning, sterilisation and packaging processes

Launch into a future-proof IT career

When you complete the Certificate IV in Information Technology (Gaming Development) you will gain career enhancing knowledge and skills to support a wide range of growing gaming development, virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR, 360) fields. Opportunities exist to engage in real life projects using industry standard software, skills, and knowledge.

You will be an attractive applicant for roles growing in demand such as 3D modelling and animation, interactive media design and production, and user interface design.

Gain these skills:

• 3D modelling
• Immersive technologies
• Coding for games
• 3D animation
• Simple artificial intelligence
• Interactive media design
• Rapid prototyping
• Industry standard game design software and hardware
• All SM TAFE certificate IV IT qualifications include core skills of programming ethics and privacy, cyber risk management, critical thinking, new technology research, teamwork and client support.

Specialist facilities on-campus

Our Simulated Games Development Studio at the Thornlie campus provides a training environment designed to emulate professional industry working conditions and provide access to current industry-standard hardware and software. The simulated studio also provides students with opportunities to collaborate with other digital media students to create engaging interactive applications for a range of industries and platforms.