Certificate II in Community Recreation

Campus: Broadmeadows / Richmond
Day: Wednesday
Download: Certificate II in Community Recreation

This VET program:

  • provides participants with the knowledge and skills to achieve competencies that will enhance their employment prospects within the community recreation industry.
  • enables participants to gain a recognised credential and to make informed choices in relation to vocation and career paths.

Sample Modules (Units 1 - 4)

  • Organise and complete daily work activities
  • Deal with client feedback
  • Follow defined OH&S policies and procedures
  • Apply the principles of community development to community recreation work
  • Assist in preparing sport and recreation sessions for participants
  • Assist in conducting sport and recreation sessions for participants
  • Provide equipment for activities
  • Develop knowledge of the sport and recreation industry
  • Respond to clients at risk
  • Apply point-of-sale handling procedures in a recreation setting
  • Respond to emergency situations
  • Provide first aid
  • Develop a career goal-setting plan
  • Perform the intermediate skills of touch in a competitive situation
  • Apply basic exercise science to a community activity program
  • Promote the benefits of healthy eating to participants
  • Apply sport and recreation law
  • Undertake risk analysis of activities
  • Analyse participation patterns in specific markets of the leisure and recreation industry
  • Plan a session or program for participants Conduct a sport and recreation session for participants
  • Facilitate a group
  • Educate the public on the safe use of sport and recreational resources
  • Deal with conflict
  • Operate in accordance with accepted instructional practices, styles and legal and ethical responsibilities
  • Provide orientation to clients prior to undertaking a fitness program
  • Undertake client induction and screening
  • Develop basic fitness programs
  • Apply basic exercise science to exercise instruction
  • Use and maintain core fitness industry equipment

Future Pathways

  • Certificate III in Community Recreation
  • Certificate III in Outdoor Recreation
  • Certificate III in Outdoor Recreation - Multiple Activities
  • Certificate III in Sport and Recreation
  • Certificate IV in Community Recreation
  • Certificate IV in Community Services - Lifestyle and Leisure
  • Certificate IV in Outdoor Recreation
  • Diploma of Community Services - Lifestyle and Leisure
  • Diploma of Outdoor Recreation
  • Diploma of Resort Management - Dive
  • Diploma of Sport and Recreation

Future Career Opportunities

  • Recreation officer/coordinator
  • Gymnasium instructor
  • Personal trainer
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John Rist

'The Kangan Institute teachers are great; they all have a strong practical understanding of the industry. The mix of on the job and off the job training has also been really valuable, the practical experience and the theory ensures you know all the fundamentals of the trade.'

John Rist

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Last updated: 16 July 2009 Page owner: Marcia Langdon (Vet in Schools)

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