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No fees, no cost. Free. We are serious when we say we want to help you get skilled and get that job.
Find out more about our new four week Future Chef Job Ready Program delivered at our Joondalup campus, you can start on your pathway to a career in the kitchen for free* (see eligibility criteria for free training below).
This exciting program will combine training with a work placement in our real life training environment, the kitchen at Pavilion Restaurant. You could also have the chance to connect with apprenticeship opportunities and get started on your way to becoming a chef.
The Future Chef Program is part of the Job Ready pathways to employment program.
If you are ready to begin on your pathway to a career in the kitchen, you can express your interest now.
Please note Fees apply for non-eligible students.
FAQs
The free training is available to residents of Western Australia.
- Persons aged 15—24 years at the time of enrolment (excluding students enrolled at school)
- Persons receiving the JobSeeker payment
- Persons and dependents of persons in receipt of services from one of the following Commonwealth support or employment services programs:
- Jobactive
- Online Employment Services
- ParentsNext
- Persons and dependents of persons receiving the Youth Allowance, AUSTUDY or ABSTUDY
- Persons and dependents of persons holding:
- a pensioner concession card or  Health Care Card; or
- a Repatriation Health Benefits Card issued by the Department of Veterans' Affairs
- Dependents of persons who are inmates of a custodial institution.
Who is not eligible
- Persons living outside of Western Australia, or Australia, are not eligible.
- International students and people on a student visa are not eligible.
- Students who are still at school are not eligible and cannot enrol in the free skill sets.
The Department of Training and Workforce Development’s VET Fees and charges policy(opens in a new tab) - outlines eligibility for subsidised training in WA.
Enquiries regarding course fees can be made by calling us.
Our job ready skill sets are available to everyone, and 100% free for the following eligible students.Â
- Persons aged 15—24 years at the time of enrolment (excluding students enrolled at school)
- Persons and dependents of persons in receipt of services from one of the following Commonwealth support or employment services programs:
- Jobactive
- Online Employment Services
- ParentsNext
- Persons and dependents of persons receiving the Youth Allowance, AUSTUDY or ABSTUDY
- Persons and dependents of persons holding:
- a pensioner concession card or  Health Care Card; or
- a Repatriation Health Benefits Card issued by the Department of Veterans' Affairs
- Dependents of persons who are inmates of a custodial institution.
Course and resource fees will apply for non-eligible students.
If you don't meet these eligibility requirements, please go to this page(opens in a new tab) to find out more about course and resources fees.Â
For further information about the job ready skill sets, including where they are available and how to enrol, please select Skill sets(opens in a new tab) .
Yes, subject to practical study load factors, there is no limit to the number of fee free skill sets that can be undertaken by a student.
Where a particular unit is in more than one skill set (e.g. ‘HLTINFCOV001 — Comply with infection prevention and control policies and procedures’), a student can only do the unit once under the fee free arrangements. Credit will be given where the same unit has been successfully completed under a different skill set. If an employer or student requests the unit to be repeated in a different context, the unit can be repeated at the cost of the employer or student.
Job ready skill sets
Business Ready Skill Set
Almost every business has an office — and there's no shortage of job opportunities here
This skill set will give you the skills and knowledge required to deliver all aspects of customer service including how to create a relationship with customers, identify their needs, deliver services or products and process customer feedback.
Almost every business has an office — and there's no shortage of job opportunities here
From administration work through to customer service, using business technology, dealing with accounts and finances through to digital marketing — you just need to be skills ready.
The Business Ready Skill Set will give you basic skills and knowledge required to deliver aspects of customer service including how to create a relationship with customers, identify their needs, deliver services or products and process customer feedback. You'll also learn how to use business technology and produce business documents, follow work health and safety (WHS) and emergency procedures and instructions, and use computer software and organise electronic information and data.
COVID-19 Collection Skill Set
Demand for workers in the Pathology industry is high - get the skills you need to start your career.
You'll undertake three units of competency to gain entry level skills to work safely in the pathology industry.
This skill set is free for everyone.
The COVID-19 Collection skill set will give you the skills and knowledge required to collect, prepare and dispatch a pathology specimen for Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing — a technique used to copy small segments of DNA and to diagnose infections such as COVID-19.
This training will get you job ready for working in hospitals or outpatient clinics, GP clinics and specialist rooms, home collection services and other public and private healthcare settings equip you with the skills and knowledge to. It includes learning to work in compliance with infection prevention and control policies and procedures.
The skills you gain are highly transferrable, with PCR used in a number of laboratory and clinical techniques including DNA fingerprinting, detection of bacteria, and diagnosis of genetic disorders. Your skills can also be used for the collection of pathology specimens in anthropological and forensic examination, which could be a pathway into a range of interesting work areas including forensic and criminal sciences.
COVID-19 Direct Care Skill Set (Fee Free)
This skill set is free for everyone
This skill set was developed in consultation with WA employers in the aged care and disability services sectors and the Community Services, Health and Education Training Council to get you job ready for entry-level employment.
This skill set is free for everyone
This COVID-19 Direct Care skill set was developed in consultation with WA employers in the aged care and disability services sectors and the Community Services, Health and Education Training Council. It contains three units of competency chosen to get you job ready for entry-level employment.
- HLTINF001 Comply with infection prevention and control policies and proceduresÂ
- HLTWHS005 Conduct manual tasks safelyÂ
- CHCCCS011 Meet personal support needsÂ
Cross-Sector Infection Control Skill Set
Help reduce the risk of transmission of infection in the workplace
Designed to equip workers with the skills and knowledge to reduce the risk and transmission of infection.
Help reduce the risk of transmission of infection in the workplace
This skill set is designed to equip workers from all industries with the skills and knowledge to reduce the risk and transmission of infection while carrying out routine work activities.
This training is suited to a wide range of workplaces including small, medium and large organisations; business environments; and where workers use shared facilities and interact with clients.
This online course allows you to undertake studies within your own timeframe to help you gain the skills and knowledge to reduce the risk and transmission of infection while carrying out routine work activities.
Entry into Care Roles Skill Set
This skill set is free for everyone
This skill set will give you the skills and knowledge required to provide entry level support and basic client care for a range of roles and purposes within the aged care and disability support sectors.
This skill set is free for everyone
The CHCSS00114 Entry Into Care Roles skill set addresses the skills and knowledge required to provide entry level support and basic client care for a range of roles and purposes within the aged care and disability support sectors.
The skill set is comprised of the following units.
- HLTINF001 Comply with infection prevention and control policies and procedures
- CHCCCS015 Provide individualised support
- HLTWHS002 Follow safe work practices for direct client care
These units can then be used as credit towards a number of Certificate III courses and is an ideal starting point for anyone considering gaining a qualification in Aged Care, Home and Community Care, Disability or as a Health Service Assistant.
Hospitality Service Skill Set
With restrictions easing across WA, our hospitality industry is getting back into busy mode and the jobs are out there
If you're keen to work in a restaurant, hotel, resort, club, bar or cafe environment, the Hospitality Service skill set is for you.
With restrictions easing across WA, our hospitality industry is getting back into busy mode and the jobs are out there
If you're keen to work in a restaurant, hotel, resort, club, bar or cafe environment, the Hospitality Service skill set is for you.
You'll learn about responsible service of alcohol (RSA), get some barista skills to use commercial machines and make a perfect espresso, communicating effectively and providing quality service to customers including the how to establish rapport with customers and determine and address customer needs, and responding and managing complaints. You'll also learn how to process cash and other payments using business technology, and reconcile takings at the end of the service period or day. This course also includes infection control and prevention procedures and food safety to ensure you're working safely.
Please note this skill set is delivered across two of North Metropolitan TAFE's campuses, Joondalup and Perth. This is to give you access to to work experience in our Pavilion Restaurant, cafe and use commercial coffee machines.
The first two weeks are held at Perth campus and the remainder of the course will be delivered at Joondalup (Kendrew) campus.
Infection control Skill Set
Protect yourself and others in the community from infectious diseases
Gain an understanding of how infections are spread, ways of preventing the spread of infection and how to protect yourself and others from infection. This skill set is most suited for those that are working in the health care sector, or those that would like to acquire a new skill before returning to employment.
Protect yourself and others in the community from infectious diseases
The pandemic has highlighted the importance of building the capacity and understanding of the workforce to practice safe infection control procedures. This skill set will provide you with the skills and knowledge to assist in protecting yourself and others in the community from infectious diseases.Â
You will understand how infections are spread, ways of preventing the spread of infection and how to protect yourself and others from infection. It is most suited for those that are working in the health care sector, or those that would like to acquire a new skill before returning to employment.
This online course allows you to undertake studies within your own timeframe. You will receive a short induction and ongoing support from your lecturer. Once you have completed the online study component you will be required to book into a four hour practical lab session at our Mount Lawley campus where you will practice skills and undertake a workplace assessment.
Infection control Skill Set (Food Handling)
Protect yourself and others in the hospitality sector from infectious diseases
Gain an understanding of how infections are spread, ways of preventing the spread of infection and how to protect yourself and others from infection. This skill set is most suited for those that are working in the hospitality sector.
Protect yourself and others in the hospitality sector from infectious diseases
The pandemic has highlighted the importance of building the capacity and understanding of the workforce to practice safe infection control procedures. This skill set will provide you with the skills and knowledge to assist in protecting yourself and others in the community from infectious diseases.Â
You will understand how infections are spread, ways of preventing the spread of infection and how to protect yourself and others from infection. It is most suited for those that are working in the hospitality sector.
This online course allows you to undertake studies within your own timeframe. You will receive a short inducton and ongoing support from your lecturer. Once you have completed the online study component you will be required to book into a four hour practical lab session at our Mount Lawley campus where you will practice skills and undertake a workplace assessment.
Infection control Skill Set (Retail)
Protect yourself and others in the retail sector from infectious diseases
Gain an understanding of how infections are spread, ways of preventing the spread of infection and how to protect yourself and others from infection. This skill set is most suited for those that are working in the retail sector.
Protect yourself and others in the retail sector from infectious diseases
The pandemic has highlighted the importance of building the capacity and understanding of the workforce to practice safe infection control procedures. This skill set will provide you with the skills and knowledge to assist in protecting yourself and others in the community from infectious diseases.Â
You will understand how infections are spread, ways of preventing the spread of infection and how to protect yourself and others from infection. It is most suited for those that are working in the retail sector.
This online course allows you to undertake studies within your own timeframe. You will receive a short induction and ongoing support from your lecturer. Once you have completed the online study component you will be required to book into a four hour practical lab session at our Mount Lawley campus where you will practice skills and undertake a workplace assessment.
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Infection control Skill Set (Transport and Logistics)
Protect yourself and others in the transport and logistics sector from infectious diseases
Gain an understanding of how infections are spread, ways of preventing the spread of infection and how to protect yourself and others from infection. This skill set is most suited for those that are working in the transport and logistics sector.
Protect yourself and others in the transport and logistics sector from infectious diseases
The pandemic has highlighted the importance of building the capacity and understanding of the workforce to practice safe infection control procedures. This skill set will provide you with the skills and knowledge to assist in protecting yourself and others in the community from infectious diseases.Â
You will understand how infections are spread, ways of preventing the spread of infection and how to protect yourself and others from infection. It is most suited for those that are working in the transport and logistics sector.
This online course allows you to undertake studies within your own timeframe. You will receive a short induction and ongoing support from your lecturer. Once you have completed the online study component you will be required to book into a four hour practical lab session at our Mount Lawley campus where you will practice skills and undertake a workplace assessment.
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Infrastructure Ready Skill Set
Build your future with skills in infrastructure
Gain the skills to prepare for a career in infrastructure projects, and pick up your White Card along the way!
Build your future with skills in infrastructure
Gain the skills to prepare for a career in infrastructure projects, and pick up your White Card along the way!
You will learn the knowledge and skills to work safely in the civil construction industry, communicate effectively on work sites and plan work in relation to infrastructure activities.
This introduction is suitable for students who wish to enter the industry with no or limited experience.
Introduction to Commercial Cookery Skill Set
Want a career that can take you all over the world?
Turn a passion for food into a career that can take you on a lifelong journey
Our Future Chef Job Ready Program will help you turn a passion for food into an exciting career in hospitality.
This Free for eligible students*, four week Future Chef Job Ready Program is designed to get you into the creative food and restaurant industry.
You'll gain a combination of intensive training and work experience in a real commercial kitchen which may give you a head start into gaining an apprenticeship or other employment opportunities in the hospitality sector.
The four week program includes a total of five days work placement where you will gain real, hands on industry experience in addition to in class training.
After completing this Job Ready Program you could:
- be offered an apprenticeship
- find employment opportunities in other areas of the hospitality sector
- embark on further training to enhance your employment prospects.
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Introduction to Direct Support Skill Set
Ageing and Disability Job Ready Program
A career in the ageing or disability sector can be very rewarding. This is an exciting opportunity to start a career that makes a difference and supports a person to reach their goals, engage with the community and meet their support needs.
Ageing and Disability Job Ready Program
A career in the ageing or disability sector can be very rewarding. You can get started in one of the fastest growing workforces in Western Australia and make a positive difference to the lives of others.
This is an exciting opportunity to start a career that makes a difference and supports a person to reach their goals, engage with the community and meet their support needs.
As part of this course you will attend a work placement with an employer where you will gain real, hands on industry experience and secure a ‘foot in the door’.
By completing the Ageing and Disability Job Ready Program, you may:
- Be offered a job with your work placement employer
- Be offered an aged care or disability work traineeship
- Use your skills to transition into an allied health occupation
- Gain employer references
- Be connected with other employment opportunities within these sectors or
- Complete further studies
For more information visit jobsandskills.wa.gov.au/pathways or call 08 6551 5049 or email SWAD@dtwd.wa.gov.au
Job Ready Basics Skill Set
A little extra support and a confidence boost to get into a job
This skill set is perfect if you feel that you need a little extra support and a confidence boost to get into a job. It focuses on health, wellbeing and personal development.
The Job Ready Basics skill set is perfect if you feel that you need a little extra support and a confidence boost to get into a job.
It focuses on health, wellbeing and personal development. Follow this up with a visit to your local Jobs and Skills Centre, where you can get free advice and support to with your CV and writing job applications, and you'll be job ready!
This skill set provides a pathway to further study in the following Lower fees, local skills half-price course fees qualifications.
Operate a Small Business Skill Set
This skill set is free for everyone
You'll gain the skills you need to be business or job ready in any field of small business.
This skill set is free for everyone
If you're currently operating or thinking about starting up a small business, or would like to get job ready for an administrative support position in a small business operation, this is the skill set for you!Â
The Operate a Small Business Skill Set offers a fantastic range of skills and knowledge to get you job ready. You'll learn how to design and produce business documents and publications, digitally design and develop text-based documents,  develop spreadsheets through the use of both cloud-based and non-cloud based applications, identify financial requirements of a business including profit targets, cash flow projections and strategies to garner financial support, and understand workplace health and safety (WHS) legislation and its application to safe work practices. It even covers how to create and build a social networking presence using social media tools and applications.Â
Pathology Collection Skill Set
Demand for workers in the Pathology industry is high - get the skills you need to start your career.
You'll undertake three units of competency to gain entry level skills to work safely in the pathology industry.
Would you like to be an important part of a team assisting clients to return to better health?
The Pathology Collection Skill Set, which you will complete under the supervision of a trained phlebotomist, will give you the skills to obtain blood samples from a patient for laboratory testing and get you job ready for working in hospital wards or outpatient clinics, GP clinics and specialist rooms, home collection services and other public and private healthcare settings.
You’ll gain the skills and knowledge to perform a pathology collection role, comply with infection prevention and control policies and procedures, and be able to identify and respond to clinical risks in pathology collection. You’ll also learn important communication skills for working in health care or community services.
Work Safety in Construction Skill Set
Bricklaying Job Ready Program
Gain skills in work safety practices, how to use a range of construction equipment and tools; and working in a construction team. This course includes work placement
Bricklaying Job Ready Program
Do you have a positive attitude and work well in teams? Are you interested in joining the WA residential construction sector?
The four-week Bricklaying Job Ready program aims to provide a pipeline of bricklayers to meet the needs of WA’s booming building industry. The program takes a unique approach, combining a three-week short course with a four-day work placement with an employer, which may lead to a bricklaying apprenticeship.
Be part of Western Australia’s $147 million program, which will generate construction work to last through 2022.
The three-week short course teaches:
- work safety practices
- how to use a range of construction equipment and tools; and
- skills to work in a construction team.
During your work placement, you will:
- gain real, hands on industry experience; and
- secure a ‘foot in the door’ by working with an employer.
By completing this program, you may:
- be offered a bricklaying apprenticeship with your work placement employer;
- be deemed suitable for other employment opportunities within the residential construction sector; or
- decide to undertake further training.
Work in Hospitality Skill Set
WA has a large and vibrant hospitality industry — from bars and cafes through to world class restaurants and venues, hotels and resorts.
Hospitality offers a range of both entry-level jobs and career development opportunities, and the Work in Hospitality skill set is the perfect introduction to the industry, giving you the critical skills employers are looking for.
WA has a large and vibrant hospitality industry — from bars and cafes through to world class restaurants and venues, hotels and resorts.
Hospitality offers a range of both entry-level jobs and career development opportunities, and the Work in Hospitality skill set is the perfect introduction to the industry, giving you the critical skills employers are looking for. To get you job ready, you'll learn about areas of health and wellbeing and personal development, how to use workplace technology and business systems, and responsible service of alcohol (RSA). It also includes infection control and prevention procedures and food safety to ensure you're working safely.