What We Offer
Like many other Hunter employers, are you struggling to find skilled, committed employees? Is the skills shortage impacting your ability to grow your business or meet customer demands?
What Hunter Trade College can offer you is a better way to find and employ staff without the associated recruitment costs! We can provide top quality School-based apprentices or trainees to employers like yourself. Our students not only complete Year 12 but can begin a school-based apprenticeship Certificate III or school-based traineeship Certificate II in the trade areas of:
Automotive
Construction
Electrotechnology
Metal and Engineering
Plumbing
By taking on a School-based Apprentice or Trainee, you are passing on your valuable knowledge, skills and experience to the next generation, helping to build a local skills base, and strengthening school, local industry and community links.
Hunter Trade College provides quality academic and vocational education for Years 11 and 12 students. The College is responsive to industry and employer needs. The College’s Board of Directors is drawn from leading regional industries, employer groups, group training and education providers.
Student work placement/industry experience
Our team of College Work Placement Officers is ready to work with you. Hunter Trade College looks forward to meeting your recruitment needs by providing your business with a work-ready, motivated student with a demonstrated commitment to trade training and well-developed employability skills. The College industry experience program allows host employers to work with several students to assess suitability for workplace and recruitment needs.
Employers may wish to take a Hunter Trade College student for a work placement while they are considering a School Based Apprentice or Traineeship (SBAT). During the work placement, Hunter Trade College provides public liability insurance for employers and third parties. A Student Placement Form must be completed for an employer to provide a work placement under the College’s insurance. The process of offering a work placement is simple, with the completion of the required documents facilitated by the College.
Support young people to start their trade careers and avoid time-consuming and costly recruitment.
Hunter Trade College combines the HSC with nationally accredited vocational trade training and:
It gives you the opportunity to select the best apprentice or trainee for your business through the College work placement program before you commit to employing them.
Shows you a selection of young people who can provide you with skilled labour.
Can provide you with two school-based trainees or two school-based apprentices (available Monday to Friday to work at your site) for the cost of one full-time trainee or apprentice.
You may be eligible for Government Incentives related to the employment of apprentices and trainees.
Why employ a Hunter Trade College School-Based Apprentice or Trainee?
All students are WHS trained and assessed, ready for work before entering a workplace.
They are young and offer the opportunity to be trained in your company’s cultural values and procedures.
They bring up-to-date trade knowledge and skills from their College training.
Their training includes how to communicate, listen and follow instructions.
They have good computer skills and can competently calculate, measure and estimate.
Students have the opportunity to attain a higher level of education.
Give a young person a chance to work in your business and, at the same time, address your own industry skill needs.
Requirements for school-based apprenticeships and traineeships
School-based apprenticeships and traineeships are established when an application for a Training Contract has been signed by the employer and the apprentice or trainee, College as the RTO, as well as the parent or carer (if the student is under 18 years of age), and has been approved by Training Services NSW.
School-based apprentices and trainees must complete formal training delivered by a registered training organisation (RTO). The formal training must meet the requirements of the relevant Vocational Training Order (VTO) for that apprenticeship or traineeship vocation and lead to a nationally recognised qualification on the NSW Skills List. The formal training (also referred to as off-the-job-training) component of school-based apprenticeships and traineeships must contribute unit credit towards the HSC through Board Developed or Board Endorsed HSC VET course(s).
Arrangements for formal training and on-the-job training are developed by the RTO in consultation with the employer, the apprentice/trainee, the school and school sector representative and are formalised in a Training Plan, which must be lodged along with the Training Contract as part of the application.
School-based apprentices and trainees must undertake a minimum of 100-144 days of on-the-job training (as stated in the relevant VTO) by 31 December of the year they will complete their HSC. This on-the-job training must be paid employment as an apprentice or trainee under an appropriate industrial arrangement.
School-based apprenticeships and traineeships are binding on the parties to the Training Contract when the application has been approved and the probationary period has elapsed.
