Free Skills Ready skill sets

Get ready for a career in Business! 

This skill set is the perfect introduction to office administration, clerical work and reception work.

You will learn to all aspects of customer service and management, organisation of daily work tasks, how to produce professional documents using relevant business technology and how to work effectively with colleagues in an office environment.  

Gain these skills: 

• Deliver a service to customers 
• Produce digital text documents 
• Organise and complete daily work activities 
• Use business technology 
• Contribute to health and safety of self and others 

Tuition and resource fees

Eligible students study this course absolutely free. If you are not eligible you can expect to pay $809.95.

Next course dates

New dates coming soon!

Help using our online application

You will need to have the evidence requirements(opens in a new tab)  and relevant documents ready to upload with your application. When ready to apply, use our guide to self service application using Student Portal.

Student Portal application guide (2 MB) (PDF document - opens in a new tab)    

Get a taste for working in a kitchen

Learn the skills to prepare for a career in a commercial kitchen.

This skill set will give you an introduction to working in kitchen operations in restaurants, hotels, catering facilities, clubs, pubs, cafes, coffee shops, aged care facilities, hospitals, prisons and schools.

You will learn basic food preparation and cookery skills under the supervision of experienced commercial lecturer cooks.

Gain the skills to:

• Clean kitchen premises and equipment
• Use hygiene practices for food safety
• Participate in safe work practice
• Comply with infection prevention and control policies and procedures
• Use food preparation equipment

Tuition and resource fees

Eligible students study this course absolutely free. If you are not eligible you can expect to pay $387.05.

Course dates

To be confirmed

Help using our online application:

You will need to have the evidence requirements and relevant documents ready to upload with your application. See our guide for applying using our online system (1 MB) (PDF document - opens in a new tab) .   

Learn to control COVID-19 related infection for workers in all workplaces

In these unprecedented times, new regulations need infection control practices in all workplaces to protect workers from pandemic infection risk.

Gain these skills

• introduction to infection control
• chain of infection and disease transmission
• breaking the chain of infection
• contamination and cleaning
• hazards, risks, responsibilities and reporting

Maintain your ability to work safely and within government requirements; or, prepare your business for compliance by including your staff in training, raising their capability in ensuring the safety of staff and customers in your workplace.

Learn to control COVID-19 related infection for direct care workers

In these unprecedented times, new regulations need aged care and disability workers to manage infection control.

Skills can be applied to specific health and care industry needs such as direct client care, community care, community services, in-home care, disability care, and all work environments where you provide support and care to individuals or groups of people.

Gain these skills:

• introduction to infection control
• chain of infection and disease transmission
• breaking the chain of infection
• contamination and cleaning
• hazards, risks, responsibilities and reporting

Maintain your ability to work safely and within government requirements; or, prepare your business for compliance by including your staff in training, raising their capability in ensuring the safety of staff and customers in your workplace.

Interested in retail, food handling or transport and logistics?

We have specific courses for selected industries, tailored to the infection control needs of those industries. Find out more by using the links to the other course pages below:

• Retail skill set
• Food handling skill set
• Transport and logistics skill set

Learn to control COVID-19 related infection in food handling

In these unprecedented times, new regulations need workers to manage infection control while providing food to the general public.

Skills can be applied to specific food handling industry needs such as using kitchens and packaging areas, front of house, staff rooms and offices, food stock deliveries and vehicles, equipment storage, and bathrooms and toilets. 

Gain these skills:

• introduction to infection control
• chain of infection and disease transmission
• breaking the chain of infection
• contamination and cleaning
• hazards, risks, responsibilities and reporting

Maintain your ability to work safely and within government requirements; or, prepare your business for compliance by including your staff in training, raising their capability in ensuring the safety of staff and customers in your workplace.

Interested in non-food handling control skills?

We have specific courses for selected industries, tailored to the infection control needs of those industries. Find out more by using the links to the other course pages below:

• General skill set
• Retail skill set
• Transport and logistics skill set

Learn to control COVID-19 related infection in retail

In these unprecedented times, new regulations need workers in retail businesses to manage infection control.

Skills can be applied to specific retail industry needs such as stand alone stores, strip shops, shopping centres, cinemas and game arcades, petrol stations and convenience stores, supermarkets, retail areas within beauty salons, hairdressing salons, barbers and sporting facilities including gyms, markets and museums and galleries.

Gain these skills

• introduction to infection control
• chain of infection and disease transmission
• breaking the chain of infection
• contamination and cleaning
• hazards, risks, responsibilities and reporting

Maintain your ability to work safely and within government requirements; or, prepare your business for compliance by including your staff in training, raising their capability in ensuring the safety of staff and customers in your workplace.

Interested in non-retail infection control skills?

We have specific courses for selected industries, tailored to the infection control needs of those industries. Find out more by using the links to the other course pages below:

• General skill set
• Food handling skill set
• Transport and logistics skill set

Learn to control COVID-19 related infection in transport and logistics

In these unprecedented times, new regulations need workers to manage infection control while in the supply chain of essential goods and services.

Skills can be applied to transport and logistics industry needs such as offices, depots, customer sites, roadside service areas, service centres, distribution centres, client workplaces, commercial buildings, residential buildings, vehicles including public transport vehicles, and yards and storage facilities.  

Gain these skills

• introduction to infection control
• chain of infection and disease transmission
• breaking the chain of infection
• contamination and cleaning
• hazards, risks, responsibilities and reporting

Maintain your ability to work safely and within government requirements; or, prepare your business for compliance by including your staff in training, raising their capability in ensuring the safety of staff and customers in your workplace.

Interested in non-transport and logistics infection control skills?

We have specific courses for selected industries, tailored to the infection control needs of those industries. Find out more by using the links to the other course pages below:

• General skill set
• Retail skill set
• Food handling 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!

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.

Gain these skills:

• Follow work health and safety policies and procedures
• Plan and organise work
• Carry out measurements and calculations
• Communicate effectively in the work place
• Operate small plant and equipment

Tuition and resource fees

Eligible students study this course absolutely free. If you are not eligible you can expect to pay $298.66.

Next course dates

Thornlie: to be confirmed

Get ready to secure your digital footprint

Learn the skills to secure your digital footprint whether it be for a small business or your own personal devices. 

This skill set will give you an introduction to the world of IT in workplaces where routine cyber security practices are required.

You will learn basic skills in network security, WHS basics and cyber security awareness.

Gain these skills

• Implement and monitor WHS policies, procedures and programs to meet legislative requirements
• Contribute to copyright, ethics and privacy in an ICT environment
• Recognise the need for cyber security in an organisation
• Secure a networked Personal Computer

Dates

• Murdoch campus - 31 January
• Online study - 31 January

Tuition and resource fees

Eligible students study this course absolutely free. If you are not eligible you can expect to pay $428.75.

Get ready for a start in the workforce

You will develop soft skills needed by employers to manage your own needs and work effectively with others. This introductory course also helps you begin working with technology and manage your own infection control, both skills that are sought by employers. 

This course is ideal for school leavers and those who are starting out on their career path. 

Gain these skills:

• Taking care of health and wellbeing in the workplace
• Personal development 
• Basic computer use
• Use infection control procedures to ensure the safety of customers 

Tuition and resource fees

Eligible students study this course absolutely free. If you are not eligible you can expect to pay $108.40.

Help using our online application

You will need to have the evidence requirements(opens in a new tab)  and relevant documents ready to upload with your application. When ready to apply, use our guide to self service application using Student Portal.

Student Portal application guide (2 MB) (PDF document - opens in a new tab)    

Get a career on the move and drive a forklift!  

Learn the skills to prepare for a career in warehousing, transport or logistics and get your forklift licence. 

This skill set will give you an introduction to working as store personnel, a forklift driver, or warehouse operator. 

You will learn how to operate and drive a forklift and carry out deliveries and shift materials safely. 

Gain the skills to: 

• Comply with infection prevention and control policies and procedures  
• Carry out delivery operations 
• Shift materials safely using manual handling methods 
• Operate a forklift (including the licence to operate a forklift truck)    

Tuition and resource fees

Eligible students study this course absolutely free. If you are not eligible you can expect to pay $593.25.

Help using our online application

You will need to have the evidence requirements(opens in a new tab)  and relevant documents ready to upload with your application. When ready to apply, use our guide to self service application using Student Portal.

Student Portal application guide (2 MB) (PDF document - opens in a new tab)    

This skillset is aimed at trainees who are enterprise employees that are new to the industry or enterprise. It meets the industry requirements for core operator skills to work in a meat processing enterprise. 

Gain these skills:

• Maintain personal equipment
• Apply hygiene and sanitation practices
• Gain an overview in the meat industry
• Follow safe work policies and procedures\Communicate in the workplace

Next dates for delivery:

• 14-18 February 2022

Get ready to turn your dream into a flourishing business!

This introductory skill set will give you the tools to launch or improve how you operate your own small business or to gain work-ready skills for employment within a range of small businesses.  

You will learn how to apply and create relevant documents and publications to your business to organise and better manage your work load, how to use digital and online tools to manage finances, how to establish and manage a social networking presence and how to manage work, health and safety laws relevant to your small business.  

Gain these skills: 

• Learn about various business documents and publications and how to apply them to your business 
• Design and produce digital business documents and publications 
• Design and produce spreadsheets for organising and tracking work 
• Plan small business finances 
• Use social media tools to promote your business 
• Apply knowledge of work, health and safety laws in the workplace 
     

Next course dates:

Rockingham    

• Next dates to be confirmed

Bentley    

• Next dates to be confirmed

Thornlie   

• Next dates to be confirmed

Help using our online application

You will need to have the evidence requirements(opens in a new tab)  and relevant documents ready to upload with your application. When ready to apply, use our guide to self service application using Student Portal.

Student Portal application guide (2 MB) (PDF document - opens in a new tab)    

Get ready for a safe construction career

Learn the skills to prepare for a career in construction and pick up your White Card along the way.

This skill set will give you an introduction to working in construction, teaching you safety and accuracy in planning for, setting up and beginning a construction project.  You will learn to use tools and equipment safely and the rules and procedures for safe work on site, plus you will work on a construction project, ready to add to your portfolio. 

This course is ideal as a start to a building and construction pathway, building the basic safety skills for wet trades, plumbing, carpentry and joinery.

Gain these skills:

• Plan and prepare, set up and use levelling device and worksite clean-up
• Identify and assess risks of work tasks, identify hazardous materials and other hazards on work sites, plan and prepare for safe work practices, apply safe work practice and follow emergency procedures
• Plan and prepare tools, equipment, signage and barricades, calculate materials and ready them for use, apply environmental requirements
• Determine component requirements and assembly sequence
• Operate hand tools and use equipment safely
• Quality checking construction outcomes against plans
• Understanding work, health and safety of construction projects, worksites, PPE, communication and first aid procedures, safety symbols   

Tuition and resource fees

Eligible students study this course absolutely free. If you are not eligible you can expect to pay $394.33.

Next dates for delivery

Course dates for 2022 will be made available soon.

Get ready for hospitality 

Get a taste for working in hospitality and get your Responsible Service of Alcohol (RSA) permit.  

This skill set will prepare you for further hospitality training and will give you the ability to legally and responsibly serve alcohol, so you can apply for hospitality work at a licenced venue. You will learn the knowledge and skills to prepare you for further training and improve your employability skills.

Gain these skills:

• Taking care of health and wellbeing in the workplace
• Personal development 
• Basic computer use
• Provide responsible service of alcohol
• Use infection control procedures to ensure the safety of customers 

Tuition and resource fees

Eligible students study this course absolutely free. If you are not eligible you can expect to pay $471.30.

Next course dates

Dates to be announced

Help using our online application

You will need to have the evidence requirements(opens in a new tab)  and relevant documents ready to upload with your application. When ready to apply, use our guide to self service application using Student Portal.

Student Portal application guide (2 MB) (PDF document - opens in a new tab)