SIT07 Tourism, Hospitality & Events Training Package

1. SIT07 Tourism, Hospitality & Events Training Package Hospitaltiy Training Package- SIT07

2. Service Skills Australia • Who are they? - One of eleven Industry Skills Councils - Incorporated not for profit company - Funded by the Australian government (DEEWR) • What do they do? - Develop and maintain nationally recognised skills standards • (Training Packages) for the service industries • - Assist individuals and businesses to access training and assessment • within these standards • - Assist registered training organisations to provide quality training • and assessment using Training Packages Hospitaltiy Training Package- SIT07

3. What is a Training Package? • A set of nationally endorsed standards and qualifications • Describes the skills and knowledge required to perform effectively in the workplace – within a competency based framework • Developed by industry requirements Hospitaltiy Training Package- SIT07

4. What a Training Package is not • Training Packages do not describe how skills and knowledge should be attained or the method of training delivery -Training Providers develop the ‘curriculum’ or the ‘how’ based on the learner and their local industry requirements Hospitaltiy Training Package- SIT07

5. Tourism, Hospitality & Events Training Package • Endorsed in December 2007 • 31 qualifications • More than 350 units of competency • Extensive industry consultation • Over 500 responses from industry during review • Updated competency standards to meet current industry requirement and trends • Employability skills explicitly embedded Hospitaltiy Training Package- SIT07

6. Industry Concerns with Delivery Industry Concerns SSA Response Assessment conducted in Inappropriate Environments without industry standard Equipment SIT07 includes Assessment Environment Requirements Increase of ‘Holistic Units’ The need for an increase in the quality of Graduates who have undertaken institutional Based delivery with the industry exposure – Not the ‘apprenticeship’ model Lack of currency in assessors knowledge of Industry standards and expectations Enhanced requirements for Vocational competency of Assessors Enhanced guidance provided in Evidence Guides of Units to Support quality/consistency of outcomes Lack of consistency of assessment outcomes Hospitaltiy Training Package- SIT07

7. AQF AQF Qualification by Sector of Accreditation Hospitaltiy Training Package- SIT07

8. Career Pathway Advanced Diploma of Hospitality Diploma of Hospitality Cert IV in Hospitality Cert III in Hospitality Cert II in Hospitality Cert I in Hospitality Hospitaltiy Training Package- SIT07

9. Career Pathway Advanced Diploma of Hospitality Diploma of Hospitality Cert IV in Hospitality (Commercial Cookery) Cert IV in Hospitality (Patisserie) Cert IV in Hospitality (Catering Operations) Cert III in Hospitality (Commercial Cookery) Cert III in Hospitality (Patisserie) Cert II in Hospitality (Catering Operations) Cert II in Hospitality (Kitchen Operations) Cert I in Hospitality (Kitchen Operations) Hospitaltiy Training Package- SIT07

10. Employability Skills • Are imbedded in the units and specifically expressed in the context of the work outcomes described in the units • If your assessment meets the rules of evidence and you have analysed the unit of competency ‘correctly’ they will form part of the evidence Hospitaltiy Training Package- SIT07

11. What about employability skills? • Communication • Communicating ideas and information • Teamwork • Working with others and in teams • Problem solving • Solving problems • Initiative and enterprise • Using mathematical ideas and techniques Hospitaltiy Training Package- SIT07

12. Employability skills (cont’d) • Planning • Collecting, analysing and organising information • Self-management • Planning and organising activities • Learning • Using technology • Technology Hospitaltiy Training Package- SIT07