If you want to work with little kids, this is a place to start. Five short courses take you through play, safety, health, babies and toddlers, and what the law asks of you.
Centres, playgroups and home-based care take on assistants. You learn how to run play and learning, keep children safe and work with families. The career centre then helps with your CV.
Already minding children, in your home or someone else's? You get the grounding under it: what to watch for, what to record, and where the legal and ethical lines sit.
Five short courses, online and self paced, with video lessons and short assessments. Access does not run out, so you can take one at a time when it suits.
Childcare work sits in centres, playgroups, home-based care and family homes. The work is easy to picture: setting the play up, watching who needs a hand, and keeping everyone safe and fed.
Looking after children in a family home. Caring for babies and toddlers is a course of its own here.
Supporting the team in a centre. Play, safety and wellbeing are covered directly.
Caring for a small group of children in your own home, where safe environments and healthy food matter daily.
Running sessions for young children and their parents. Play and learning experiences sit at the centre of it.
Running activities for children in holiday or community programmes, with safety and inclusion behind you.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience. Early childhood roles in New Zealand usually ask for a recognised qualification.
Five micro-credentials in one bundle, studied at your own pace.
Here is what stands out in this course.
Each micro-credential stands on its own and earns its own certificate. You can finish one, put it on your CV, and start the next.
One micro-credential is only about caring for children, nurturing babies and toddlers, which is the part most people feel least sure of.
You cover children's health, safety and wellbeing, keeping the environment safe, meeting legal and ethical obligations, and spotting children at risk.
A whole micro-credential on healthy eating for kids. It comes up every single day in this work and it is rarely taught on its own.
Certificate of Achievement · The Career Academy
One for each of the five micro-credentials, endorsed for professional development and recognised by employers.
Awarded when you finish the bundle, ready to go on your CV.
CV templates, a CV review and interview preparation, open from the day you enrol.
Send an enquiry and a course advisor gets back to you with the course guide and straight answers on whether it fits.
Start anytime. Pay on a flexible weekly plan, or pay upfront in one payment.
Work through the five micro-credentials online, with video lessons and short assessments, and mentors or live chat if you need them.
Finish each micro-credential and receive your CPD-endorsed digital certificates, plus your Certificate of Achievement.
None. The first micro-credential is an introduction to the childcare pathway, so you can come to it cold.
From $29 a week on a flexible payment plan, with no deposit and no credit check. You can also pay upfront in one payment. Enquire for the full options.
Around 220 study hours across the five courses. Access is unlimited and there are no fixed schedules, so you set the pace.
Yes, and that is the point. Each micro-credential is short, stands on its own and earns its own certificate. You can finish one and start using it while you work through the rest.
It gives you what the assistant and home-based roles run on: play and learning, safety, wellbeing, babies and toddlers, and the legal duties. Early childhood roles in New Zealand usually ask for a recognised qualification, and this bundle is not one. What you walk away with is the practical knowledge, five certificates and a much stronger application.
There are none, ever. Each micro-credential uses short assessments as you work through the video lessons.
The certificates are CPD endorsed, which is accreditation for professional development, and the college is an ICOES accredited centre. It is not NZQA accredited, so it is not a national qualification. That is a different thing. For childcare support and home-based work, what counts is that you can look after children safely, and that is what this covers.
Yes. There is a 10-day money back guarantee. If it is not right, you get your money back.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy, an online course provider in New Zealand.
The college has been running for over 15 years and works with more than 25,000 students a year. Courses are online and self paced, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours. Career coaching opens as soon as you enrol, including CV help and a LinkedIn profile review.
Picture the afternoon a toddler who cried at every drop-off runs in ahead of their mum to find you.