


IN THE NEWSCoordinating Respite for Carers (in the Community Services Sector) NSW Industry Consultation Forum August 3rd. The Community Services and Health Industry Skills Council (CS&H ISC) is holding a NSW Industry Consultation Forum to receive industry feedback on the development of additions to the Community Services Training Package (CHC08). For more details click here
Strengthening the AQF update: The AQF Council has announced their Sydney presentation and details of the feedback process for Strengthening the AQF. Click here
NCVER is currently reviewing the Australian Vocational Education and Training Management Information Statistical Standard (AVETMISS). To download the discussion paper and the framework for feedback by August 6, Click here
Child Protection- new section on NavigatingNSW detailing NSW Keep Them Safe initiative and related units of competency. click here
Sydney feedback workshop for CSHISC Oral Health Competency Development Project click here
Communicating with clients with Language Literacy & Numeracy Needs Join free industry feedback forums! More information click here
2010 Assessor Network More information click here
New CHC08 and HLT07 Traineeships click here
Keep Them Safe - child protection training for mandatory reporters More information in News
NEW RESOURCES Basic Home Fire Safety for Community Services Workers Products - click here Safe Manual Handling Kit for Early Childhood Sector Products- click here |
From the Executive Director-August 2010
The end of the financial year has come and gone, giving us a chance to review our activities over the past six months and to be in touch with our members reminding them to renew their membership for 2011-2012.
Keep your eye on our web site for details of our Annual General Meeting and Forum which is being held in November. Members are welcome to attend. The Board met in June for our Annual Strategic Planning Day. This saw intense activity and discussion to ensure the focus and direction of the CSH ITAB remains firmly grounded in the current needs and priorities of our broad industry sectors.
Thank you to all our members who have supported the CSH ITAB throughout the past year, attending forums and networks, providing industry advice ensuring we have current information to pass on and utilising the CSH ITAB’s consultation services.
In particular our Assessor Networks go from strength to strength and we are about to instigate our Manager’s Network to bring together managers of NGOs. If you would like to participate in this opportunity let us know by emailing tcasey@csh-itab.com.au The foremost aim is to provide practicing managers with an informal session where professional conversations, reflections and networking are generously shared to:
Keeping you up to date
Together with other stakeholders we have been supporting the Board of Studies to develop the Human Services Industry Curriculum Framework. This will enable Year 11 and 12 students to study as part of their HSC, Certificates III in
They will also be able to elect to sit an exam at the end of Year 12 and have their marks count toward the Australian Tertiary Education Ranking (ATER - previously the UAI) which universities use as their entrance criteria for many courses. If endorsed by the Board later this month, students may be able to commence this in 2011 across NSW.
We have had a busy time contributing to consultative forums initiated at both the State and Federal levels. Amongst them:
Projects
In June we launched our new Oral Health in Aged Care free online training resource. This resource is for aged care workers in residential aged care facilities, dental assistants who wish to gain knowledge specific to older people or aged care workplace supervisors and employees responsible for direct client care. It was developed by the CSH ITAB in partnership with the NSW Dental Assistants’ (Professional) Association and is located on our moodle site at www.workplaceskills.com.au
We are well underway with our online project: Building Workforce Capacity in the Aged Care Sector. Industry partners are providing opportunities for workplace videos to be shot and relevant content and structure to be developed to support potential and existing aged are workers who have English as a second language to become competent in the cultural and technical language of their workplace.
PPPs
The Department of Education and Training is preparing for the implementation of the next phase (2011- 2012) of the Productivity Places Program (PPP) and the CSH ITAB has provided extensive industry advice to guide the Department’s selection of available qualifications to enable access for RTOs and industry. The Community Services and Health Industry Skills Council (CSHISC) has been working with industry around Australia to implement Enterprise Based Productivity Place Program (EBPPP). To date several NSW based organisations have been successful in achieving places in this program.
CSHISC
We have been working closely with CSHISC supporting them to address:
All in all a busy time to date and it looks set to continue! We at CSH ITAB are looking forward to you staying in touch and keeping us in your world.
We are pleased to announce the new look and updated NavigatingNSW website to include CHC08 Community Services Training Package. Access the website by clicking on the site icon on the left menu bar of this page or use www.csh-itab.com.au/navnsw/ NavigatingNSW also includes advice about the HLT07 Health Training Paqckage qualifications, Child Protection and First Aid units of competency. We endeavour to keep NavigatingNSW up to date and welcome any feedback, comments or current NSW developments that will help us provide a useful and vital information service. |
Last updated: 29 July 2010
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