Vocational Trainer

**About our school**:
At Deception Bay State High School it is our aim to provide all students with a learning environment where they can achieve their best across the academic, cultural, citizenship and sporting areas. To achieve this it is essential that we establish strong and supportive partnerships between students, staff, parents/caregivers and the wider community. These partnerships allow us to provide the best possible learning environment, one which is supportive for all students, where students can gain the skills necessary to be successful members of our modern society.

**Your role**:
**Responsibilities include**:

- Work collaboratively to deliver program curriculum that targets identified skills shortages and enhances the transition from school to employment ensuring work ready students for employers.
- Plan teaching materials to deliver a range of activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration and work experience that provides students with opportunities to learn, question and investigate, incorporating fair and equitable assessment strategies, and maintaining individual training plans to meet the individuals learning style and ability, ensuring compliance with the VET Quality Framework.
- Purse and maintain effective relationships with industry and VET providers to ensure currency of knowledge and skills are maintained with a good understanding of current training package requirements.
- Meet the reporting, attendance and behaviour requirements as stipulated by the School for the management of absenteeism, facilitating appropriate assessment processes to enable recording and tracking of competency completion and work placement progress to ensure all aspects of the training program are satisfactorily achieved for students and to ensure Registered Training Organisation (RTO) compliance.
- Plan, initiate and deliver training from endorsed Training Packages on the Scope of Registration, in accordance with the Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Australian Qualification Framework (AQF).
- Provide instruction to students and teachers in a range of skills and techniques relative to safe use of equipment in an educational/industry setting.
- Liaise and network with schools, VET institutions, industry and the general public to discuss matters associated with the provision of job opportunities for students.
- Monitor the routine and non-routine maintenance of any equipment or appliances used in the delivery of the program, including the maintenance of systems relating to the management of consumable stock control, and liaise with the School VET Program Coordinator on matters associated with repair, replacement or removal.
- Complete and maintain all documentation related to training, ensuring that records are complete, thorough and accurate, and that confidentiality is maintained.
- Facilitate appropriate assessment processes, monitoring student progress, recording and tracking of competency completion, initiate intervention strategies and ensuring all aspects of the training program are satisfactorily achieved for students.

**Mandatory requirements**:

- When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
- Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.

**How to Apply**:

- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history).
- Attach a 2-page response to the How you may be Assessed section of the attached role description.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
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