VET Trainers and Assessors competencies and Workforce Management Policy
This policy is to ensure that the delivery of the College’s scope of registration (accredited courses and units of competency) incorporate the principles contained in the following standards of the 2025 Standards for RTOs:
Standard 3.1: The workforce is effectively managed to ensure appropriate staffing to deliver services.
Standard 3.2: Training and assessment are delivered to VET students by credentialled people with current skills and knowledge in training and assessment and
Standard 3.3: Training and assessment are delivered by persons with current industry skills and knowledge relevant to the training product
The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) has a number of standards related to the continuing registration of Registered Training Organisations (RTOs).
Standard 3.2 and 3.3 of the 2025 Standards for RTOs Outcome Standards mandate suitably skilled trainers and assessors to be engaged to train or assess.
Reference: Practice Guide “Trainer and Assessors competencies”, (https://www.asqa.gov.au/how-we-regulate/revised-standards-rtos/practice-guides/practice-guide-trainer-and-assessor-competencies [1])
The policy relates to all VET units of competency, training package qualifications, and accredited courses delivered by the College or any of its teaching partners.
The College shall ensure compliance with clauses 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 of 2025 Standards for RTOs. These procedures shall be detailed in the VET Trainers and Assessors Competencies Procedure document.
The College will ensure that all persons involved in training and assessment always meet the requirements of the Credential Policy (2025) or its successor policy.
The College will ensure that people do not perform training and assessment tasks beyond the scope of their credentials.
The College will require the presentation of the original relevant credentials held by the trainers and assessors before engagement.
Where an assessor is working under direction, the College has supervision and guidance arrangements which are reflective of the skills and knowledge of the person and ensure that the person is not making assessment judgements, that their supervisor has sufficient support to perform the supervisory role and is appropriately skilled and qualified.
The College ensures that staff involved in training and assessment maintain up-to-date trainer and assessor skills, have an understanding of current industry practices, informed by industry consultations.
All trainers and assessors have industry competencies, skills and knowledge that are relevant to, and at least to the level of, the training product they are delivering and assessing.
Where an industry expert is engaged to support trainers and assessors, those experts work under the direction of a qualified person and work alongside a qualified assessor where they are involved in the assessment judgement.
Workforce Management
The College will ensure that it has adequate numbers of trainers, assessors and other staff, appropriate for the delivery of the services it offers.
The College facilitates access to continuing professional development opportunities to enable staff of the organisation to effectively perform their role.