This course is designed to be delivered as a:

- VET delivered to Secondary Students Pathway (VETDSS) for students completing senior secondary education in conjunction with a VET Certificate II program. The nominal hours for the units of competence completed within this course are 250 hours. In addition, secondary students are to complete a minimum of 110 hours of Work Placement/Practice which also contributes to (WACE) requirements.

- Pre‐Apprenticeship Pathway
Pre-apprentice students are to undertake Work Experience in accordance with the guidelines (business rules) established by the Department of Training and Workforce Development or relevant State Training Authority. In Western Australia, the minimum Work Experience/Practice for a pre-apprentice undertaking this course is a minimum of 150 hours, in addition to the 250 nominal hours for the units of competence completed.

An asterisk (*) against a unit code below indicates that there is a prerequisite requirement that must be met. Prerequisite unit(s) must be assessed before assessment of any unit of competency with an asterisk. Check the unit of competency for information on specific prerequisite requirements. All prerequisite requirements are packaged in the qualification.

As the elective units below are only suggested model units, when importing units into the accredited course, check the prerequisite requirements.

Packaging Rules

To successfully complete this course, competency must be demonstrated in 14 units of competence.

Core Units: Complete all eight (8) core units listed in Group 1

PLUS

Elective Units:

Choose ONE (1) trade‐specific pathway from Groups 2 - 8 and complete six (6) “trade elective” units*

PLUS

Work Placement:

Relevant construction industry Workplace Learning/Experience or Work Practice undertaken concurrently with delivery of this course is mandatory to achieve the qualification and consolidate student learning and skills development. The duration will depend on delivery Pathway (described above).

* The elective units listed for each trade are a model program only. The electives for each trade group may be selected from the same trade Certificate III qualification as currently endorsed within the CPC and Construction, Plumbing and Services Training Packages.

Elective units must be chosen within the context of the trade‐specific pathway that is being undertaken.

1. The WA Pre-apprenticeship Program Business Rules provide for details on the requirements of the program. The business rules also outline the amount of work practice a student is to undertake and RTO responsibilities in relation to the pre-apprenticeship work practice component.

2. The set of work practice coordination modules should be used to indicate that the RTO has undertaken and completed its responsibilities for establishing and monitoring on-the-job work placements for each pre-apprentice.

3. RTOs should report students in each module when each phase of the work practice is achieved as follows:
- Module 1: when the RTO has completed “arranging and coordinating work placement” identified in Rule 2.4, including contacting suitable employer/s and arranging the on-the-job work placement, working collaboratively with schools if the pre-apprentice is a student enrolled at school.
- Module 2: when the pre-apprentice has commenced the first half of the on-the-job work placement with an employer.
- Module 3: when the pre-apprentice has commenced the remaining half of the on-the-job work placement with an employer.
- Module 4: when “monitoring work placement” and “evidence of the work practice component” identified in Rule 2.4, including the site visit/s, total number of hours of on-the-job work placement and log book with employer sign off have been completed.

4. The student does not incur course fees for the work practice coordination modules as the nominal hours value for each of these modules is zero.

5. The Department of Training and Workforce Development will use the work practice coordination modules reported for each pre-apprentice to monitor RTO efforts in arranging, coordinating and monitoring on-the-job work placements.

6. The work practice coordination modules are used to disburse funds to RTOs for coordinating the work practice component, and they do not relate to the actual hours of work practice a pre-apprentice must undertake.

7. The work practice coordination modules are non-assessable and do not specify skill and knowledge requirements.

8. Work practice coordination modules should only be reported as outcome “Non-assessable - satisfactorily completed”.

9. The work practice coordination modules are not to be used outside of nominated Department of Training and Workforce Development funded programs, which includes the WA Pre-apprenticeship Program.

Please refer to the WA Pre-apprenticeship Program Business Rules for details on the requirements of the program.