ISSUE 3 Training Services Newsletter Autumn/Winter 2014 Inside This Issue 1 Welcome 1 What s happening? 2 Professional Development 2 Industry updates 3 RTO News 3 News from HR 4 Site Profile - Elizabeth 5 A Good News Story 5 Birthdays Status Employment Services has gone from 5 sites to 10 in just 12 months! Welcome Welcome to the Winter issue of the Training Services Newsletter. This issue is late getting to you due to the massive amount of activity across all areas of the organisation. This year was off to a busy start and the pace has not yet slowed down, and is not likely to in the foreseeable future. This is great news for Status. While many businesses are struggling in the current economic climate, Status continues to expand rapidly. This time last year Status was operating in Noarlunga, Marion, Kilkenny, Modbury and Salisbury. 12 months later and Status is operating from 2 Noarlunga sites, Marion, Kilkenny, 2 Modbury sites, 2 Salisbury sites and 2 Elizabeth sites. This is a result of increased business in the DES and SEE contracts. What s happening? I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all the best for the holiday season. The last 6 months have been an extremely busy time across all areas of the training services division. We have; Said goodbye to Vikki Lewis, long standing Executive Manager of Training Services. Vikki retired at an operational level in March this year. Welcomed Yvonne Christophides to the role of Senior Manager: Training Services Welcomed Edith Thew to the role of Operations Manager: Contract Administration to replace Yvonne. Undertaken Off site verification (31 files reviewed, 2 files not verified, an overall result of 93%) Participated in off-site performance monitoring conducted by Department of Industry (DOI) Attended an ACSF moderation workshop where 18 ACSF assessors were provided with the opportunity to attend. Commenced delivery of Pathways to Emergency Service training at Elizabeth. This is delivered under the SEE banner, in partnership with Northern Futures. Participated in a 1 day Strategic Audit conducted by ASQA, reviewing the Certificate III in Children s Services Participated in a 2 day Reregistration audit conducted by ASQA, across 5 qualifications. Commenced delivery of Certificate III in Aged Care at Elizabeth, Salisbury and Marion as part of the SEE program. Transitioned from the ESL Framework to the EAL Framework Opened new training sites at Modbury and Elizabeth, and last week moved to a new site in Salisbury. Transitioned from a significant casual workforce to a majority permanent part time/ full time workforce. Continued to provide an exceptional level of training and assessment services to our clients.
PAGE 2 Professional Development What Works for LLN have recently released 9 new LLN videos for the What Works training and professional development video library. These new videos contain practical LLN tips and good practice examples to help build vocational trainers and assessor s capacity to support learners with LLN needs. There are now 18 What Works videos available to view. 1. Introduction to LLN series (the original 9 videos) 2. Practical LLN tips for trainers and assessors series (NEW 9 videos) You will find these located in L:\Human Resources\Professional Development\Shared Professional Development Do your current qualifications meet the requirements of NVR standard 15.4? Are you able to demonstrate vocational competency and currency for the qualifications that you are training and assessing? What does vocational currency/ competency mean? How can I demonstrate this? What if I don t meet the requirements? Click here to access further information Don t forget to update your PD records. Industry Training Updates Enrolments are no longer accepted in CHC30712 Certificate III in Children s Services. This has been replaced with CHC30113 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care. Status is currently applying to ASQA for this qualification to be added to our scope of registration and development will commence in the near future. This qualification is also the first full qualification we will be reviewing under the new streamlined training package requirements. If you are not yet familiar with the new format of training packages I encourage you to review the CHC30113 package or Click here for a refresher on these changes TAE40110 update. TAELLN411 Address adult language, literacy and numeracy skills can now be delivered as part of the TAE40110 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment qualification. This unit replaces and is deemed equivalent to TAELLN401AAdress Adult language, literacy and numeracy. The TAE40110 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment has been reviewed and is expected to be endorsed as a new training qualification this year.(tae40114) Innovation and Business Skills Australia (IBSA) have put forward a revised TAE40110 qualification for endorsement. The revision includes the addition of TAELLN411 Address adult language, literacy and numeracy skills as a core unit and if endorsed will result in a new version of the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment qualification more than likely it will be TAE40114. Further communications will be issued to staff once the endorsement process has taken place. Further information can be accessed from the IBSA website.
L:\RTO\Training Services Newsletters\Training Services Newsletter Winter 2014 Issue 3.docx PAGE 3 RTO News In March 2014 Status underwent an ASQA strategic audit for the Certificate III in Children s Services. While the audit day was quite successful and we received very positive feedback about our operations as an RTO, Status was found to be non-compliant in 4 key areas. These non-compliances were; Insufficient skills assessment checklists. While we undertake assessments our recording in this area required improvement. Decision making criteria required for assessor marking guides. Clearer decision making rules were required in addition to suggested answers. Trainer qualifications while ASQA agreed that our trainers were suitable we had failed to adequately document the VOCATIONAL CURRENCY and COMPETENCY of our trainers and assessors. Industry engagement in clients learning. A specific agreement detailing prior knowledge of clients was required to inform industry of current skills and knowledge. We were given 20 days to resubmit evidence to demonstrate compliance. This was achieved and our audit result was updated to compliant. During this audit we internally identified areas of non-compliance across all qualifications that needed immediate action. This corrective action had to be completed by the 11 th of June as we were scheduled to undertake a Reregistration audit on the 11th and 12 th of June. A dedicated team of staff were allocated the job to have all training and assessment materials reviewed and made compliant by this date. Many hours of hard work was put into the audit preparation and correction of non-compliances. All the hard work paid off and after a grueling 2 day audit we were found to be compliant in all areas. There were a few grey areas but the professionalism, skills and knowledge of the audit team demonstrated immediate rectification and the auditor was able to accept our changes and result us as compliant. The Audit team consisted of the following staff: Manager RTO Services: Tarsha Franklin, RTO Delivery and Assessment Coordinator: Deb Schneider, Aged Care Trainer: Karen Barnes, TAE Trainer; Adella Bucsai, EAL Trainer; Geoff Lawrence, Retail and Business Trainer; Wendy Krantis. Thank you for your hard work and dedication in preparation and participation in the audit. What next? The RTO will continue to work on improvement opportunities identified during audit and maintaining our compliant status. However, the RTO standards have been revised and new standards are currently out for public consultation. It is possible a new set of RTO standards will be released and implemented as early as January 1, 2015. This will require a significant amount of work to transition the RTO from the old standards to the new. The proposed standards contain a significant amount of change from the current standards. The proposed standards can be accessed from here. News from Human Resources Staffing: We are pleased to introduce several new staff. The following staff have commenced with the Training Services Division of Status Employment Services this year. Administration: Tina Barabas, Chloe Matthews, Agastya Sanghadia Elizabeth Site: Carrol Doecke, Adina Dalgleish, Alan Dickens, Daniel Johnson, Ann Li, Paul Monopoli, Yulin Zha Salisbury Site: Pradeep Bhardwaj, Katharine Hope, Jasminder Kaur Modbury Site: Baljeet Kaur, Maki Stevenson Marion Site: Cathy Clennel, Pater Parfitt Noarlunga Site: Paull Wood
PAGE 4 Site Profile - Elizabeth The Elizabeth site commenced operation in January this year and is fast becoming a very busy site. The following staff are currently providing services at our Elizabeth site: Daniel Johnson PTA Assessor Daniel has been with us for 5 months now. He joined Status specifically in the role of PTA assessor and has a background of assessing and teaching English in China. Daniel also assists the newer members of staff on site with progress assessments and the odd relief class when needed. Alan Dickens AM Lit/Num Trainer Alan has recently joined the Status team. He has come from a very varied training background, most recently in training horticulture to disadvantaged students. He has a real passion in working with the client cohort in Elizabeth. Linda Zha AM Language trainer Linda commenced with Status a few months ago, and has a background in teaching in primary & high schools - mainly Maths, Science, Chinese and IT. Adina Dalgleish PM CEDL - Lit/Num Trainer Adina commenced with Status training the Pathway to Success course at our Salisbury site. Previous to this, she was training in hospitality. Whilst undertaking a relief in the CEDL class at Salisbury, we offered Adina a full time permanent role. She is now delivering the Computer course at the Elizabeth site. Adina is currently the site contact for Elizabeth. Paul Monopoli PM Emergency Services Language Trainer Paul has recently joined the Status team to deliver the EMS course to a specific cohort of Language students aiming to get into emergency services employment. Paul has previous experience supporting AMEP. We also run a fully accredited Certificate III Aged Care course in the AM. Carrol Doecke Industry Trainer Carrol commenced at Elizabeth in March. She has come to Status from a background in delivering Aged Care in other RTO s and has a real passion for this industry. Ann Li - Lit/Num Trainer/Assessor As well as supporting the Aged Care class, Ann conducts PTA s. She has a background in teaching in schools and is always willing to help out the other team members. Back row Daniel, Paul, Alan Centre - Linda Front row Carrol, Adina Ann and Carrol
L:\RTO\Training Services Newsletters\Training Services Newsletter Winter 2014 Issue 3.docx PAGE 5 A Good News Story Today, in class we had a special reason to celebrate. Namely, we celebrated Sarah s success as a learner. We are very proud of Sarah! From her studies in Certificate I in Education and Skills Development at Status, Sarah s confidence and self-esteem as a learner have improved immensely, and Sarah has now decided to go on to further study once she completes her training with Status. She has made the decision to return to school so that she leads by example for her three young daughters. She wishes to complete her studies so that her children will also go on to complete their schooling successfully. Sarah has enrolled in an adult re-entry program to complete her HSC Year 12 Matriculation at Christies Beach High School in the Supportive Adult Independent Learning (SAIL) Program. This program has been designed specifically and exclusively for adult learners and offers a pathway to SACE completion for entry to VET courses or Foundation Studies courses at Flinders University or University of South Australia. Students can also choose to study some ATAR courses and transfer to mainstream if they decide to change their focus. We wish Sarah all the best in her future studies, and have confidence in her that she will succeed and achieve her dream. Birthdays March Mery 2nd Ingrid 15th Soheila 3rd Andy 18th Geoff 5th Chloe 26th April Paull 4th Agastya 28th June Robyn 8th May Leila 2nd Edith 17th Jelmer 2nd Pradeep 23rd Peter 5th June Huma 5th Linda 22nd Catherine 8th Adina 28th George 17th July Sophie 1st Meredith 15th Karen 4th Tracey 15th Baljeet 4th Christine 22nd Tina 8th Daniel 25th August Tarsha 1st Jennie 22nd Maki 9th