Lead a Building, Construction or Plumbing and Services Team
Overview
This skill set addresses the skills used by experienced tradespersons and operators who are moving into roles with additional responsibility and team leadership, typically in smaller businesses. The skill set provides the team leadership and other skills to enable experienced site supervisors or builders to develop staff under their supervision. Completion of the general induction training program specified by the National Code of Practice for Induction Training for Construction Work (ASCC 2007) is required before entering a construction work site. Achievement of unit CPCCOHS1001A covers this requirement.
Qualification:
Statement of Attainment - Lead a Building, Construction or Plumbing and Services Team CPCSS00001
The skill set is run over 6 hours a week for 9 weeks for face to face delivery plus 2 hours per week of on line delivery. The delivery will include on line activities, report writing and team work. An equivalent amount of time will also be required outside of class.
The skill set provides the team leadership and other skills to enable experienced site supervisors or builders to develop staff under their supervision.
This course is offered under Skilled Capital. The initiative will give eligible participants the opportunity to complete a nationally recognised qualification and receive a completion payment from the Education Directorate. The completion payment is made upon successful completion of their skilled capital qualification which must be completed within two years of the commencement date.
We suggest that you will need Australian Core Skills Framework levels of at least 2 across reading, writing, learning, oral communication and, depending on your program of study, numeracy skills to successfully complete this program. If you do not have this level, you can still enrol and seek support to improve your skills or you may prefer to begin with a lower level program, or enrol in the Certificate I in Skills for Vocational Pathways (FSK10213) to develop your literacy skills. Please visit Foundation Skills or phone (02) 6207 4872 to have a chat to one of our teachers.
Qualifications at CIT are regularly updated or replaced to meet current industry needs and maximise your employment opportunities. If this occurs while you are part way through a qualification, you may need to vary your learning to meet the new national requirements. CIT will aim to make this as smooth as possible for you.
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