What are Work Skills Traineeships?
Work Skills Traineeships provide paid employment opportunities to disadvantaged Queenslanders while at the same time funding projects that leave a visible and long lasting impact on social infrastructure and services in a local community.
Participants will:
- earn a certificate I level qualification in conservation and land management
- gain practical experience in real work situations that align with their training
- complete paid work that can be included in their resumes
- receive a mix of career advice, job preparation skills and foundation skills.
For information on Skilling Queenslanders for Work go to https://training.qld.gov.au/community-orgs/funded/sqw/workskills
Please revisit this page to apply in January 2019
Participants will:
- sign a training contract with their employer and be registered as a trainee be employed full‐time for 18weeks
- earn a certificate I level qualification in conservation and land management
- gain practical experience in real work situations that align with their training
- complete paid work that can be included in their resumes
- receive a mix of career advice, job preparation skills and foundation skills.
As a trainee you will undertake a range of interesting and educational activities. Your traineeship is paid full time over 18 weeks. Work activities include
- propagating and planting native seedlings
- weed control
- re-vegetation and regeneration
- habitat protection and restoration
- improving water quality by improving riparian vegetation condition
- creek bank regeneration
- construction and maintenance of walking tracks
Want to know more?
https://training.qld.gov.au/community-orgs/funded/sqw/workskills