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Skills Checkpoint for Older Workers Program and Skills and Training Incentive

Information for Participants
The Skills Checkpoint for Older Workers Program (Skills Checkpoint) and Skills and Training Incentive (the Incentive) are initiatives to help older Australians through career advice and guidance and investment in training to adopt a life-long approach to skills development to stay employed longer.

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Who is eligible?
To participate in the Skills Checkpoint, you must be:
• an Australian citizen or permanent resident
• aged 40 or over, and:
o currently employed and at risk of entering the income support system, or
o unemployed within the last twelve months and not referred to or registered with a Commonwealth funded employment services provider like Workforce Australia or Disability Employment Services.

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What assistance is available to help with the cost of training?
If your Career Plan identifies that you would benefit from further training, you will be eligible to access the Incentive. The Incentive provides up to $2,200 (GST inclusive) towards the cost of either accredited or non-accredited training.

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Please contact Real Estate Academy Of Learning if you would like to access these initiatives.

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Smart And Skilled

What's Smart and Skilled?

Smart and Skilled gives eligible students:

an entitlement to government-subsidised training up to and including Certificate III government funding for higher-level courses (Certificate IV and above) in targeted priority areas.

Targeted Priorities Part Qualification Program

Assistant Agent

CPP31519 Certificate III in Real Estate Practice

Who is eligible?

Smart and Skilled course participants may include people who are

a NSW apprentice or trainee

or meet the following eligibility requirements

15 years old or over

no longer at school or home-schooled students

living or working in NSW (or an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person living in specific NSW border areas)

an Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident, humanitarian visa holder or New Zealand citizen.

 

Targeting skills of existing and new workers

The Smart and Skilled Targeted Priorities Prevocational and Part Qualification (TPPPQ) Program connects businesses and training providers to ensure you can keep the skills of your existing and new workers up to date. It also helps staff develop the skills they need to transition into new roles.

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Real Estate Academy Of Learning has approval for the NSW Goverment Smart And Skilled, please contact us to see if you meet the guidelines for the subsided funding.

CPD  2023-2024 ends on 22nd March 2024

The CPD year for all licence and certificate holders starts on 23 March each year and ends on 22 March the following year.

Licence and certificate holders must retain their own records of any compulsory, elective or business skills topics completed.

Certificate of registration holders must retain the statement of attainment issued by a registered training organisation for each unit completed from the relevant Certificate IV for their area of practice.

Licence holders (class 1 and class 2) must retain all records for 3 years.

Certificate of registration holders must retain all records for 4 years.

Licence and certificate holders are also required to provide evidence to Fair Trading that they have completed the required CPD topics.

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Training plan for all employed agents

From 23 March 2023, Licensees-in-Charge are required to develop and maintain a training plan for all employed agents, inclusive of CPD.

A draft training plan is being prepared by Fair Trading and will be available prior to commencement of the 2023 - 2024 CPD year.

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