| Yorke
Region Employment and Skills Formation Network
Current Projects
Work to Work
The Work to Work program offers assistance with:
- Individual assessments and career counseling
- Job support and personal development groups
and workshops
- Job hunting strategies and skills including
how to tap into the hidden job market
- Knowing the local job market and employment
opportunities
- Improving your networks with local employers
and service providers
- Free industry specific training in the industry
of your choice
- How to set goal and achieve them
- Motivation, self esteem and communication skills
- Support in gaining licenses, travel expenses
and work related costs
Contacts
Angie Tucker 88213355 Yorke Peninsula Employment
Rhia Vines 85238208 Employment Directions
Industry-Responsive Training
To ensure the Yorke region maintains a skilled
workforce in response to industry expansion and economic growth
the following training needs have been identified in consultations
with representatives from the region’s 4 key industries.
Primary Industries
- Rural Operations common core competencies
- Business operations and IT skills
- Licences e.g. forklift, truck, bobcat, and
mechanical skills
- Generic units e.g. OHS&W, Food Handling
regulations
- Specialist streams suited to Agriculture, Food
Industry, Horticulture
Tourism/Hospitality/Retail
- Customer service /knowing the local product/
after sales service
- IT Training /Business operations
- Front of house / restaurant & bar
skills
- Cert II Business Admin
- Specific business skills, e.g. IT training
Manufacturing and Trades General
- Pre-vocational skills and/or certificates
for automotive, metal fabrication, electrical, building and construction
industries
- Specific short courses and skills upgrades
necessary to maintain employment
Community Services
- for the Aged Care, Child Care, Mental
Health, Youth Work and Disability sectors
- Community Services Certificate generic
subjects e.g. Manual Handling, OHS, Mandated notification, medication
administration, Senior First Aid and current police checking processes
- Specialist streams/subjects suited to
respective areas of Aged Care, Disability Care, Child Care (centre
and home-based), Mental
- Health and Youth Work
- Pathways to nursing
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