Employers

"What training Careerforce provide is awesome especially when you have staff at different levels of  knowledge around disability issues, work practice etc".Daphne Marshall, Te Oranga Kaumātua Kuia Disability Support Services Trust

Employers and funders play a vital role in ensuring the best possible health and disability support services are being delivered in New Zealand.

Careerforce works alongside employers to enable their staff to achieve nationally recognised qualifications via an embedded approach and therefore providing their clients and tangata whaiora consumers with quality care and support. We also consult with funders to ensure the qualifications and related competencies meet their needs as the health and disability sector evolves.

Affordable, Flexible and Sustainable Training

Careerforce is committed to assisting you to train your staff in a sustainable, flexible and embedded way. This is demonstrated in the initiatives below:

Assessment Support Payment Programme

For all eligible workplaces Careerforce will support the costs incurred by the employer undertaking workplace based assessment by making an annual payment.
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Learning Resource Support Payment Programme

Under this programme organisations maybe eligible for funding for resources they have developed.

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Emdedded Learning

Embedding workplace-based learning makes learning and assessment a part of everyday workplace practice. It can include having training in employment contracts, training outcomes linked to remuneration, regular teaching/coaching sessions and assessment as it naturally occurs in the workplace, or more formal assessment which could also be linked to performance reviews. Workplace policies and procedures support the development and recognition of competencies and the infrastructure of the workplace is designed to support a learning environment.

Careerforce’s 'embedded’ workplace based training model is available to all employers and those already engaged in the model are reporting significant results.The 13% of employers who were the first to engage in the 'embedded’ model supported 45% of the new 2008 Training Agreements and achieved 48% of the 2008 national qualification completions.

Careerforce Workplace Advisors

Careerforce's Workplace Advisors (CWAs) support employers to embed the national qualifications into the workplace infrastructure by:

• Working with the service provider to embed the training infrastructure including training policies, training plan etc into the everyday systems of the organisation
• Providing support until the service provider is able to undertake ongoing training to Foundations level
• Providing monthly, or sooner if required, progress reports to the service provider
• Supporting the service provider to develop their ability to deliver workplace learning and verification
• Supporting workplace verifiers and assessors
• Supporting the organisation in meeting its moderation requirements

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