TTAs may find it difficult to build relationships with senior stakeholders and decision-makers within industry employers to access industry currency opportunities.

Organisation-level partnerships between employers and RTOs ensure the right stakeholders are involved and can support collaboration. These partnerships also help employers and RTOs work together to resolve organisational challenges.

For example, an employer and an RTO may implement a brief 30-minute induction for TTAs to mitigate work health and safety risks.

Every organisation is different. To choose the industry currency activities you can support, you should consider the services you deliver, staff availability, client expectations and service delivery protocols that protect staff and client safety. The employer toolkit will help you assess the likelihood and potential impact of different risks. This will help your organisation identify and coordinate industry currency opportunities that are within the level of risk your organisation is willing to accept.

For example, your organisation may be comfortable inviting TTAs to join your staff for an upcoming training session held onsite or virtually.

In many industries, such as child and health care, service delivery protocols, such as Child Safety Standards provide crucial and fundamental protection for staff and clients. TTAs can effectively update their industry skills and knowledge within the limitations placed by service delivery protocols.

There are lots of different industry currency opportunities that are meaningful for TTAs to participate in. This includes opportunities that TTAs can participate in virtually. The employer toolkit will help you identify cost-efficient and feasible industry currency opportunities TTAs can access based on your work environment.

Yes. There are important differences between what students need to achieve during a placement, in comparison to TTAs. It’s also important for TTAs to have opportunities to primarily focus on updating their industry skills and knowledge. Trying to do this while observing student placement can be less effective and meaningful for TTAs.

Additional resources is always a good thing. Across the three stages of the toolkit (prepare, engage and apply) there are tools and checklists with recommended tasks, that will support your approach and may highlight alternative options or ways of doing things.

The toolkit is not a process you must follow from start to finish. It’s designed to enhance and build on your existing processes and industry relationships. You can choose which tools you will use and tailor these to best meet what your organisation needs.

For example, the tools designed to set partnership foundations may be useful to revisit how partners will work together to support industry currency and gain tangible benefit from the partnership.

There are lots of different types of industry currency activities that can be meaningful for TTAs to participate in. Some activities can be effectively delivered through virtual meetings and workshops, such as attending an online Community of Practice. The employer toolkit will help you work out what types of industry currency activities your organisation could feasibly offer.

Yes. You can choose and tailor the tools that best suit your organisations’ work environment and requirements. This includes using the tools to partner with more than one RTO to offer industry currency opportunities.

Use the tools and checklist as often as you need.

The toolkit is not a process you must follow from start to finish. It’s designed to enhance and build on your existing processes and industry relationships. You can choose which tools you will use and tailor these to best meet what your organisation needs.