Traineeships and Apprenticeships

ACCCO delivers Traineeships and Apprenticeships in all states of Australia. 

Traineeships allow students to study the Certificate III in Children's Services while an Apprenticeship allow students to study the Diploma in Children's Services.

Traineeships/Apprenticeships allow you to work, whilst gaining your qualification. Trainees and apprentices are employed in their children's service and are given training whilst doing their job.  Trainees and Apprentices also may be eligible for additional Government subsidy. In Qld for example, thisallows you to study for as little as $143.68 (1.03c per nominal hour 2007 price) for the whole Certificate III course. Check with us about how much you may be entitled to if you're in a different State.

How we provide the training

Setting up the trainees/apprenticeship is easy. One of our trainers will visit the workplace and explain how the traineeship/apprenticeship works and what paperwork needs to be filled in. We will organize for the Training Contract to be completed and lodged with the appropriate government agencies if you haven’t already organized this.

Once the traineeship/apprenticeship has been activated, we will visit the trainee in the workplace and together with the employer and the trainee, we will create a structured training plan, which reflects the existing skills of the learner and any training, which needs to be completed. Each unit of competency will have an expected completion date. At this time we will explain Recognition and Credit Transfer options, which may be relevant for your trainee. 

Training will be provided at the child care centre. Our trainer will come in and visit your trainee on a regular basis. The training can be conducted in a quiet, uninterrupted area. As we work with the trainee through the units of competency, we will be encouraging them to ask questions and research information from within the workplace. When we complete the training plan with you, we will determine if the skills are carried out in the organization, if the resources are available for the training, which will do the training and when the training will be completed by. We want the traineeship/apprenticeship to reflect skills required in this job, but also we want the trainee to develop good underpinning knowledge that will help them to be more effective, able to think through problems and use a common sense approach to their jobs.

We will identify any workbooks required for the learning, and these will be supplied during the traineeship/apprenticeship. The trainee will be issued with a Record of Competency book, which stays in the workplace for the duration of the traineeship/Apprenticeship. This record book will be signed off as the trainee achieves competency in each unit of study. All assessments, which are submitted to ACCCO, are kept in the students file forever, so please make a copy of anything that you want to keep.

The Traineeship/Apprenticeship is usually completed over a 12-month period. However, part-time Trainees/Apprenticeship will take longer. Many Trainees/Apprentices who have good underpinning knowledge will be able to gain their skills in a shorter length of time. 

Additional information regarding Trainees/Apprenticeship can be acquired at www.trainandemploy.qld.gov.au or by contacting ACCCO