CM70 - Professional Certificate in Workplace Resilience

Overview

Course Overview

In this professional certificate you will explore mechanisms and interventions to enhance wellbeing and resilience within a workplace context and how these can be impacted by interconnected and complex systems. On completion of this certificate you will be able to implement practical evidence-based workplace initiatives designed to enhance individual, team and organisational mental health and performance capabilities. 

Career Information

It is expected that graduates of workplace wellbeing from CQUniversity will have access to a range of career options.

Graduates will be equipped to develop positive workplace interventions aimed at promoting, maintaining and improving the mental health and wellbeing of the organisations in which they apply these techniques including:

Occupational Health and Safety
Human Resource Management
Business Management
Clinical Settings
Teaching and Education
Health Care Settings
Leadership roles

Course Details
Duration 1 years part-time
Credit Points that Must be Earned 12
Number of Units Required CQUniversity uses the concept of credits to express the amount of study required for a particular course and individual units. The number of units varies between courses. Units in postgraduate courses normally consist of 6 points of credit or multiples thereof (e.g. 12, 18, 24).
Expected Hours of Study One point of credit is equivalent to an expectation of approximately two hours of student work per week in a term.
Course Type Postgraduate Not Applicable
Qualification (post nominal) CertWorkResilience
AQF Level Short Course

Admission Codes

Domestic Students
Tertiary Admission Centre Codes (TAC) Codes 		Not Applicable
International Students
CRICOS Codes 		Not Applicable
Where and when can I start?
Units offered internally at the below campuses may be delivered using a combination of face-to-face and video conferencing style teaching.
Units offered via MIX mode are delivered online and require compulsory attendance of site-specific learning activities such as on-campus residential schools, placements and/or work integrated learning. See Course Features tab for further information. Online units are delivered using online resources only.
Please Click Here for more information.
The following tables list the courses availabilities by location and term. Directing your pointer over your preferred location will provide further information if this course is not available for the full duration. Please be sure to also check individual unit availability by location and term prior to enrolling.

Domestic Availability

Term 2 - 2026

Online

Term 1 - 2026

Online

Term 2 - 2025

Online

Term 1 - 2025

Online

International Availability

Term 2 - 2026

Sorry, no international availabilities found.

Term 1 - 2026

Sorry, no international availabilities found.

Term 2 - 2025

Sorry, no international availabilities found.

Term 1 - 2025

Sorry, no international availabilities found.
For any problems regarding admissions availability for the selected course please contact 13 CQUni (13 27 86) or send us an email at http://contactus.cqu.edu.au/
Entry Requirements - What do I need to start?
Academic Requirements

To be eligible for entry into this course, applicants must hold:

·         A completed Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) equivalent Bachelor degree, or higher equivalent qualification; or

·         A completed AQF Diploma with three years relevant employment experience*, or

·         Five years relevant employment experience*

* Relevant employment experience can include employment within occupational health and safety, business management, human resource management, health care, teaching and education, coaching, social work, counselling, community services. Applicants with prior leadership experience will be looked upon favourably.

Employment experience must be shown in a letter of employment which is presented on a company letterhead as well as signed and dated by a delegated authority. The letter must contain your full name, position title, duties performed and length of service.

English Language Proficiency Requirements: 

If you were not born in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa or United States of America you are required to meet the English Language Proficiency requirements set by the University.  

Applicants are required to provide documentation confirming completion of:

·         A secondary qualification (Year 11 and 12, or equivalent), or

·         An Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Certificate IV qualification, or an AQF Diploma level qualification, or

·         Bachelor level qualification study for a period of at least 2 years fulltime with a minimum overall GPA 4.0

Completed within Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, South Africa, Ireland, or United States of America, which will meet the English proficiency.

If you do not satisfy any of the above you will need to undertake an English language proficiency test and achieve the following scores:

·         An International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic) overall band score of at least 6.0 with a minimum 5.5 in each subset; or

·         Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) iBT - Requires 75 or better overall and no score less than 17; or

·         Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic) - Requires an overall score of 54 with no sub-score less than 46; or

·         An Occupational English Test (OET) with Grades A or B only in each of the four components.

English test results remain valid for no more than two years between final examination date and the date of commencement of study, and must appear on a single result certificate.

Each student will be assessed individually.

Assumed Knowledge

N/A

Security Requirements
No information available at this time
Health Requirements
No information available at this time
Fees and Charges
Course Features

Awards and Accreditation

Interim Awards Not applicable
Exit Awards Not applicable
Accreditation
  • Not applicable

Residential School Requirements

No Residential School for this course.

Practicum/Work Placement

Not applicable

Predicted Enrolments

Year Number of Students
First Year 40
Second year 60
Third Year 75
Inherent Requirements
There are currently no inherent requirements associated with this course.
Core Learning Outcomes
  • 1. Critically analyse wellbeing and resilience resources, and the interplay between personal and workplace factors in promoting and maintaining psychological health in the workplace
  • 2. Discuss, apply and evaluate the integration of psychosocial, physiological and environmental approaches, and key behavioural, social and cognitive theories to understand wellbeing and resilience in the workplace
  • 3. Apply reflective practice and assess mechanisms to change counterproductive mental habits
  • 4. Design and develop an action plan to promote resilience and psychological wellbeing in the workplace.
Please refer to the Core Structure Learning Outcomes
Course Structure

In order to complete this course, you must:

  1. Complete the core structure

Core Structure

View Full Course Structure
Number of units: 2 Total credit points: 12

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
PSYC20042 Building Wellbeing and Resilience: Interconnected Factors
PSYC29004 Managing Workplace Mental Health
More Details
There is no additional information for this course.