Let’s stick our Trainee with a Licenced Tech to learn the ropes.

What should happen: When a new trainee is placed with an experienced technician for the purpose of workplace training, the time allocated for each job should be increased to allow ample time for instruction, questioning, discussion and observation.

What Usually Happens:  The trainee is placed with an experienced technician and the assumption is that there is room to fit some extra jobs in because there will be 2 people working together.

This may remove the opportunity for sufficient instruction, questioning, discussion and observation.

Let’s look at it from the RTO side of Training and Assessing your new technicians.

For a trainee to be assessed as competent, a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) must ensure the trainee has:

• Absorbed sufficient knowledge
  and
• Developed sufficient skills
  and
• Can combine the knowledge and skills to demonstrate:
  • ability to perform relevant tasks in a variety of workplace situations, or accurately simulated workplace situations
  • consistency in performance and a consistent ability to demonstrate skills when performing tasks
  • understanding of what they are doing, and why, when performing tasks
  • ability to integrate performance with understanding, to show they are able to adapt to different contexts and environments.
• A trainee must:
  • be assessed against all of the tasks identified in the elements of the unit or module
  • demonstrate they are capable of performing these tasks to an acceptable level.
• Through the above process, the trainee must demonstrate they hold all of the required skills and knowledge specified in the unit or module assessment requirements.