Welcome to the NSW Community Services and Health Industry Training Advisory Body
The key training and assessment information resource hub for the community services and health industry sectors.
NSW CSH ITAB is the key training and assessment information resource hub for the community services and health sectors.
Membership is available to employers, unions, industry associations, service providers and registered training organisations.
The ITAB publishes and distributes a range of products in response to identified industry needs.
Latest News and Events...
The Australian Government Department of Education and Training has released discussion papers on unduly short courses and training product reform at www.education.gov.au/VET-consultation
VET stakeholders are encouraged to provide submissions to the public consultation processes, which closes on 9 March 2018.
Plan now to join us in 2018 for our Community Services and Health Assessor Network. First established in 2006, the network has continued to meet the needs of trainers and assessors by providing the opportunity for professional conversation addressing current VET and training packages requirements and the challenges to achieve best practice outcomes in training and assessing.
The Assessor Network will meet 4 times a year from 10am –12:30pm.
2018 dates are:
Tuesday 20 February
Thursday 3 May
Tuesday 7 August
Thursday 18 October
Venue is:
NSW Family Day Care Assn, Lv 1, 1 Sloane Street, Summer Hill
assessor network 2018 invitation
On 23 November 2017, the Assistant Minister for Vocational Education and Skills, the Hon Karen Andrews MP officially launched real skills for real careers. This initiative featured the enhancement of My Skills which now includes dedicated career and industry information pages and a skills news and events page.
This Palliative Care educational resource is designed to support you to apply the Guidelines for a Palliative Approach to Aged Care in the Community to your practice. It includes the knowledge, skills and values that are required to communicate and contribute to the care of clients in the community who have a life limiting illness and or are approaching the final stages of the normal ageing process.
This free online training is designed for the Australian health context, and is available to participants by simply creating an account and logging in. This project is funded by the Department of Health and is developed by AHHA, with input from industry and other specialists.
Jolie Kaja, Winner, nominated by Coffs Coast Community College, Coffs Harbour NSW, studied Certificate III in Individual Support (Aged Care). Originally from the Congo, Jolie fled to a Zambian refugee camp for seven years before arriving in Australia.
Jolie is a single mother with four children who could speak Swahili, French and eight other African languages – but not English – when she first arrived. After earning a Certificate III in English, she decided that aged care was important after seeing the suffering of her people in Congo and Zambia.
She works at St Joseph’s Aged Care in Coffs Harbour as an Assistant in Nursing (AIN).
Minister for Education and Training Senator Simon Bimingham has announced the release of the Early Childhood Resource Hub to support early childhood education and care students. The Hub provides access to over 300 digital resources, videos, forums and e-bulletins, indexed to the National Quality Framework all in one easy place.
For further information and to access the Hub please visit www.ecrh.edu.au
What Works for LLN is funded under the Workplace English Language and Literacy (WELL) Program by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training. This online library includes videos for VET trainers, managers and workplace supervisors. The videos support the delivery of LLN units from the TAE training package and provide professional development opportunities for RTOs.
What Works for LLN… click here.
Acknowledgement
NSW CSH ITAB acknowledges the NSW Department of Industry contribution and values the ongoing partnership with Training Services NSW.
