Hospitality

Diploma of Hospitality Management (SIT50422)

Ready to lead in kitchens, cafés, or hospitality venues across the globe? The Diploma of Hospitality Management builds your expertise in operations, leadership, and customer service

🍽️ Launch Your Global Hospitality Career

Whether you dream of running a café, leading a kitchen, or managing a hotel team, this nationally recognised diploma equips you with hands-on skills and leadership expertise to thrive in Australia’s vibrant hospitality industry.

Train with real chefs. Learn in real kitchens. Get job-ready.

 

🎯 What You’ll Learn

Gain advanced skills across operations, kitchen management, customer service, WHS, budgeting, staffing, and food safety.

You’ll train in:

✔ Managing hospitality operations and staff

✔ Conflict resolution and legal compliance

✔ Budgeting and cost control

✔ Commercial cookery techniques

✔ Food safety and allergen compliance

✔ Customer service and business relationships

🧭 Where This Course Can Take You

Graduate with confidence and pursue roles such as:

  • Café manager
  • Chef de cuisine
  • Kitchen manager
  • Sous chef

This qualification opens doors across cafés, restaurants, hotels, clubs, and more.

✅ Course Details

  • Duration:
    92 Weeks delivery Including 20 weeks holiday breaks

  • Delivery:
    Classroom in Broadmeadows + Commercial Kitchen in Prahran

  • Schedule:
    20 hours/week face-to-face + blended learning

  • Fee:
    20,250 (💡 Payment plan Available)

Entry Requirements

International Students entering this course at AICSA must meet the following entry requirements:

Age Requirement

All international students must be at least 18 years old at the time of course application.

English Language Requirement

International students must have obtained or completed one of the following:

Have obtained an IELTS band score of at least 6.0 – or equivalent; or 5.5 where the test score is combined with at least 10 weeks ELICOS or 5.0 where the test score is combined with at least 20 weeks ELICOS.

The SIT50422 Diploma of Hospitality Management comprises of 28 units of competency. AICSA have organised these units of competency in a way that is most effective for the learner and will provide them with a logical learning sequence. This results in an efficient delivery of training and assessment.

To be issued the qualification SIT50422 Diploma of Hospitality Management a learner must be assessed as competent in all 28 units. These units of competency are comprised of 11 core and 17 elective units.

The SIT50422 Diploma of Hospitality Management is delivered using the course structure outlined below:

Unit code

Unit name

SITHKOP013*

Plan cooking operations

SITXCOM010

Manage conflict

SITXFIN009

Manage finances within a budget

SITXFSA008*

Develop and implement a food safety program

SITXHRM008

Roster staff

SITXHRM009

Lead and manage people

 

Unit code

Unit name

SITXMGT004

Monitor work operations

SITXWHS007

Implement and monitor work health and safety practices

SITXCCS015

Enhance customer service experiences

SITXFSA005

Use hygienic practices for food safety

SITXFSA006

Participate in safe food handling practices

SITXINV006*

Receive, store and maintain stock

SITHCCC027*

Prepare dishes using basic methods of cookery

SITHCCC028*

Prepare appetisers and salads

SITHCCC029*

Prepare stocks, sauces and soups

SITHCCC031*

Prepare vegetarian and vegan dishes

SITHCCC030*

Prepare vegetable, fruit, eggs and farinaceous dishes

SITHCCC037*

Prepare seafood dishes

SITHCCC035*

Prepare poultry dishes

SITHCCC036*

Prepare meat dishes

SITHCCC039*

Produce pates and terrines

SITHCCC041*

Produce cakes, pastries and breads

SITHPAT016*

Produce desserts

SITHCCC042*

Prepare food to meet special dietary requirements

SITXCCS016

Develop and manage quality customer service practices

SITXFIN010

Prepare and monitor budgets

SITXGLC002

Identify and manage legal risks and comply with

These competency have been drawn from the nationally recognised industry training package the Tourism, Travel and Hospitality Training Package (SIT). Upon successful completion of the training and assessment, the qualification SIT50422 Diploma of Hospitality Management will be issued. A Record of Results (or sometimes referred to as a transcript) listing all units of competency will also be issued along with the qualification certificate. The qualification and units of competency are nationally recognised and provide individuals with a valuable qualification that can be applied throughout Australia. AICSA will issue a qualification within 30 days of the final assessment being completed.

Applicants can apply for recognition of their existing skills and knowledge that are relevant to the units of competency within the program. These skills and knowledge may have been obtained through workplace training or experience and may reduce the number of units required to be completed during the program.

Students are encouraged to notify AICSA of their interest or intention to apply for RPL prior to their enrolment. We will provide you with a pre-training review questionnaire that gathers information about your prior experience. This information is then used to determine the best pathway for you to achieve competency.

Detailed student information is provided in our Student Handbook, which is supplied with the enrolment package. This Booklet contains important information about a student’s rights and obligations, such as their right to privacy, a safe training environment, right to complaint or appeal an assessment decision, meeting course progress requirement and maintaining appropriate student behaviour. It is important that person applying for enrolment must have had reviewed this information first.

Students are expected to bring along notebook and pen to take notes, may also bring a laptop.

On fulfilling the requirements, an AQF Qualification in SIT50422 Diploma of Hospitality Management will be issued to learners within 30 days of completion of the qualification. Learners completing units but not completing the qualification will be issued with Statement of Attainment detailing the units that have been completed successfully.

Students are eligible to cancel their enrolment by placing a formal notice of cancellation in writing to the CEO (Letter or email) within 10 business days of enrolment, without attracting a cancellation fee, unless the student has already commenced the training.

For information about the refund policy please refers to the student handbook, find it on our website under ‘Student Information’ section or speak to one of our friendly customer services staff.

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The assessment evidence gathering techniques used are as follows: 

• Written tests

• Project

• Role-Play

• Practical Observation

• Case studies (activities & research)

Each participant enrolling in a course will need a Unique Student Identifier (USI) number to obtain their certificate or qualification when studying nationally recognised training in Australia. A USI gives you access to your online USI account which will help keep all your training records together. Certificates and Statements of Attainment cannot be issued without this number.

The Course fees for the Students include:

Tuition Fee

$ 18,500

Admission Fee

$ 300

Material Fee

$1,950

Total Fee

$20,250

For fee terms and conditions, payment plans and refund, please refer student handbook for international students or contact office. For other fee and charges please refer student handbook.

The fee is subject to change without prior notice.

If student have any complaint against us, our procedures, staff, fellow students, assessments, marking or learning resources, they can obtain a complaint form from the reception and lodge their complaint formally. For more information about the complaints and appeal process etc., please refer to the learner handbook or speak to one of our staff.

🔄 Further Study Options:

Individuals can exit these qualifications with skills to work in industry as departmental, operational or small business managers.

• After achieving the SIT50422 Diploma of Hospitality Management, students may undertake a range of Advanced Diploma level qualifications within the SIT – Tourism, Travel and Hospitality Training Package (Release 2.0) or other Training Packages and gain credit for common units of competency in those qualifications.