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This table represents what students may be required to complete prior to commencing Vocational Placement. Evidence of completion is to be submitted to Strategix personnel or uploaded to the assessment platform.
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National Police Check
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Cert III in Community Services
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20 hours
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Cert III in Individual Support* (Ageing)
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120 hours
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Cert III in Individual Support* (Disability)
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120 hours
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Cert III in Early Childhood Education and Care
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120 hours
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Cert III in Education Support
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100 hours
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Individual Support - Disability Skill Set
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Cert IV in Disability
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120 hours
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Cert IV in Ageing Support
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120 hours
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Cert IV in Youth Work
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Dip of Early Childhood Education and Care
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240 hours
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Dip of Youth Work
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100 hours
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Dip of Community Services
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100 hours
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Cert II in Hospitality
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5 services
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Not Req
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Cert III in Hospitality
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36 services
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Not Req
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Not Req
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Not Req
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*Students in South Australia may also require the Aged Care and/or the Vulnerable People checks.
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Required – Industry standards require this check. Optional – The VP host may require this. Not Req – Not required for this VP.
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National Police Check
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Strategix completes the Federal Police Check for all relevant students (at no cost to the student).
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Working with Children Check (WWCC)
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Each state has their own requirements and process, reference the WWCC Application for instructions.
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NDIS Worker Screening
NDIS Worker Screening is performed by each state and a database maintains the results of the screening, reference the NDIS Worker Screening Applications.
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Vocational placement (VP) provides you with the opportunity to undertake practical training and to gain the experience required to demonstrate competency against the outcomes of a nationally recognised qualification. You are required to complete VP in a suitable workplace. A suitable workplace is an organisation that operates in the relevant industry sector that you are studying (e.g. youth work, early childhood, etc) that has the resources, facilities, equipment and range of work required to complete the tasks as outlined in the VP assessments. Unless you are currently working or volunteering, it is recommended that you do not begin VP until after you have completed your first unit of study. This gives you time to:
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Vocational placement is to provide a student with the opportunity to undertake practical training and to gain the experience required to enable them to demonstrate competency against the outcomes of a nationally recognised qualification.
Students are required to complete placement in an acceptable workplace to ascertain competence. An acceptable workplace must have available the necessary resources, facilities, equipment and the range of work required to complete the tasks as outlined in the Vocational Placement assessment/s.
Vocational Placement Requirements
Unless a student is currently working or volunteering, it is anticipated that students will not begin a vocational placement until after the first unit of study has been completed. This allows:
Opportunity for Police and/or Working with Children checks to be completed
Students to gain underpinning knowledge and appropriate workplace behaviours prior to placement in the sector they are studying.
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Course-Specific RequirementsThe following table, outlines the VP requirements for each course that Strategix delivers:
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After the Vocational Placement Agreement form has been signed by the host and returned to the trainer you will *receive your Vocational Placement Assessment/s.
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Complete vocational placement within 10 weeks of the last class date or they may be withdrawn from the class (unless negotiated with and approved by Strategix management)
After you have completed the required number of vocational placement hours and all tasks/projects are completed, you are unable to obtain competency for your subjects.
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Finding and securing a place to complete your vocational placement will be a whole lot easier when the following is applied to your efforts:
Start early
Start looking for a vocational placement early. It is recommend that you don’t leave it any later than 6 weeks (even this may be a stretch to get in the door for some locations). Other students from other organisations are also looking for placement and some may be booked many months in advance.
Get help
Ask your family, partner and/or friends who work within the community sector if their workplace takes students for vocational placement
Treat it like a job interview
Prepare a resume titled Vocational Placement Request (unpaid)
Include a letter with your resume (we have a letter template which you can use)
Dress smart
Go to the organisation of interest to you, don’t phone
Request to see the manager/supervisor.
If you don’t hear back, go back and follow up. Ask if they have had time to review and contemplate about your request and if it is somewhere you really want to be, leave another copy of your resume.
What to say and do
When meeting with the manager/supervisor at the organisation of interest explain and outline the following:
You are a fulltime student and require a vocational placement to complete your studies
You are a volunteer, so no wages or employment contracts or the like are required
Strategix provides all insurance (Liability, Workers Insurance and Public Indemnity)
The mentor will be required to sign off on attendance throughout the course and check of the tasks/projects completed by you
Information/processes which you may be exposed to, collect or collate as part of your placement will be and is kept confidential and will not be used inappropriately or released to unauthorised parties.
If you get limited hours you can still complete your placement, it may take a little longer to complete. Sometimes if you are doing real well they can look at increasing your hours.
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Find a VP HostStart Early: Start looking for a vocational placement host early. It is recommend that you don’t leave it any later than 6 weeks (even this may be a stretch to get in the door for some locations). Other students from other organisations are also looking for placement and some may be booked many months in advance. Get Help: Ask your family, partner and/or friends who work within the community sector if their workplace takes students for vocational placement Treat it like a job interview
If you don’t hear back, go back and follow up. Ask if they have had time to review and contemplate about your request and if it is somewhere you really want to be, leave another copy of your resume. What to say and do When meeting with the manager/supervisor at the organisation of interest explain and outline the following:
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VP requirements are identified within training packages by either the inclusion of the wording ‘must be assessed in the workplace’ or by mandated hour requirements listed in the assessment requirements for the course or subject/s. Refer to training.gov.au for minimum work hour’s requirement for specific training packages.
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