Who we are
Community Skills WA is a not-for-profit organisation ‘connecting the dots’ between industry and training providers within the health, community services and education sectors. We listen, engage and advocate to facilitate a skilled workforce across Western Australia.
Previously Community Services, Health and Education Training Council, Community Skills WA continues as a industry training council to provide strategic industry advice to the WA State Training Board and the Department of Training and Workforce Development on behalf of the health, community services and education sectors.
Inspiration behind our logo
Our logo represents CSWA’s aim to facilitate a skilled workforce across Western Australia within the health, community services and education sectors. We do this by ‘connecting the dots’ between industry, training providers, government agencies and not-for-profit organisations and understanding local industry demand. Our logo represents our passion for the sectors and the state. The azure represents the health sector and the Indian Ocean that surrounds us, oxide represents the community services sector and the core of our state and the ochre represents education and the far reaches of the desert. We are proud to represent and advocate for our sectors.
What we do
Promote training opportunities and career pathways
- Advocate for the health, community and education sectors
- Provide promotional material to Vocational Education and Training (VET) coordinators and be a point of contact for VET pathways
- Engage with secondary high schools and career pathways and training opportunities in our sectors
- Contribute to the VET for secondary schools register
Develop innovative and responsive training approaches to meet industry need
- Developed pre-traineeships disability and community health and wellbeing
- Developed and established COVID-19 Direct Care Skill Set
- Established Financial Counselling Traineeship
- Partnered with Department of Training and Workforce Development to pilot Enterprise Training Program
Provide strategic industry advice to the Department of Training and Workforce Development and the WA State Training Board
- Industry led advice on priority occupations and skill demands
- Regional industry skill gaps and training opportunities to support industry
- Advice re VET in Secondary Schools register
- Research and analysis of industry needs
- Contribute and lead industry reports such as the Social Assistance and Allied Health report
- Undertake WA Jobs, Education Training (WAJET) Survey
Proactively review training packages and provide a WA industry response
- Children’s Education and Care Training Package Development
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker Training Package
- Aged Care Training Package Product Development
- Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs and Peer Support Training Package
Advocate on behalf of the health, community services and education sectors
- ‘Connecting the dots’ between regional training providers, secondary schools and industry skill demands
- Through continuous industry engagement, identify training that meets the needs of current and emerging workforce across our sectors
- Promote access to local training and identify career pathways to promote
- Develop skill sets on behalf of industry which meet the specific skill demand
- Advocate on behalf of our sectors to government departments, private organisations, training providers and secondary schools
- Utilise the wealth of industry knowledge and representation of our CSWA board members to advocate for our sectors
Facilitate Industry Advisory Group meetings
- Dental Industry Advisory group
- Aged Care Industry Reference Committee
- Enrolled Nursing Industry Advisory Group
- Disability Industry Advisory Group
- Mental Health Industry Advisory Group
