Skilling for Recovery
About Skilling for Recovery (SfR)
Skilling for Recovery (SfR) is a NSW Government program under JobTrainer Program to provide fee-free training courses to support young people, job seekers and school leavers to gain, retain or upskill the required industry skills and knowledge.
In partnership with the NSW Government’s SfR initiative, Brighten Institute Australia is offering fee-free training for those who meet the eligibility criteria to support individuals to gain the industry related skill sets to develop the employability in Australia industries.
Skilling for Recovery Eligibility Criteria
Training is available for new staff who meet the eligibility criteria and existing staff who are at risk of unemployment and require retraining in order to secure ongoing employment.
If an employer is interested in recruiting new people for their workforce or wanting to upskill their existing workforce they may be eligible for fee-free training through NSW JobTrainer/Skilling for Recovery.
People undertaking training must meet the Smart and Skilled eligibility criteria and fit into at least one of the categories below:
a young person aged 17-24 at the commencement of training, regardless of employment status, including Year 12 school leavers
Commonwealth Government welfare benefit recipients
an unemployed person
an employed person who is expected to become unemployed (e.g. companies in declining industries, people whose employment is conditional on immediately undertaking work relevant training, workers who have been stood down or furloughed).
Eligible participants will also need to be:
living in NSW or working in NSW
be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, permanent resident or
humanitarian visa holder
no longer at school.
Available course
BSBSS00095 Cross-sector Infection Control Skill Set
This skill set addresses the skills and knowledge required to undertake work activities in compliance with organisational procedures that prevent and control infection.