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