The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations identifies that between 2001 and 2006  the social welfare sector grew by 26% and this trend is expected to continue.  This qualification provides opportunities for participants with any undergraduate qualification to consolidate essential knowledge for practice in the human services sector.

The focus on several methods of human service delivery in this curriculum presents opportunities for employment mobility within the sector. Further, this qualification allows participants with sound employment experience in the human services who do not possess relevant, formal studies to enhance opportunities for promotion and employment.

The innovative design of the curriculum will allow participants to focus their learning on issues of interest to them in their workplace or the human service sector more broadly including disability services, aged care services, residential care, women's wellbeing, out-of-home-care, youth work, support work in child protection, culturally sensitive practice, or community work. Co-ordinators and managers of human service organisations without human service qualifications stand to benefit from acquiring knowledge about the services they oversee.