NQF Level 4
Workplace Essential Skills
Rationale
Workplace Essential Skills are the skills needed for work, learning and life.
The purpose of this skills programme is to prepare a learner to operate as an employee and to complete daily tasks and activities at a workplace.
Workplace Essential Skills are used in every industry and at different levels of complexity. They provide the foundation for learning other skills and enable employees adapt to modern working practices and workplace change. Workplace Essential Skills are the core skills you need to continue learning and to complete daily tasks and activities at work.
The benefit to industry sector to address inequalities and to grow the economy, by enabling community reskilling and upliftment of an individual or society with providing employable skills.
CREDITS | 20
DURATION | 25 Days
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
NQF LEVEL 1
Build a stronger, more capable workforce
NQF Level 4 Workplace Essential Skills Certificate
- EXIT LEVEL OUTCOME 1
Identify responsibilities in the workplace environment of an employer and employee. - EXIT LEVEL OUTCOME 2
Understand and apply work ethics, norms and values. - EXIT LEVEL OUTCOME 3
Identify safety and legal provisions relating to the work and responsibilities of an employer and employee. - EXIT LEVEL OUTCOME 4
Perform tasks in a number of critical workplace competencies.
- TOPIC 1
The workplace environment and responsibilities of an employer and employee. - TOPIC 2
Employment. - TOPIC 3
The organisation of work. - TOPIC 4
Concepts related to the employee’s performance of work. - TOPIC 5
Employer organisations. - TOPIC 6
External environments in which organisations operate. - TOPIC 7
Employer-Employee relationships. - TOPIC 8
Workplace health and safety. - TOPIC 9
Understand and apply work ethics, norms and values. - TOPIC 10
Ethics at work. - TOPIC 11
Communication. - TOPIC 12
Current trends influencing work.
Practical Test
- Identify responsibilities in the workplace environment of an employer and employee.
- Understand and apply work ethics, norms and values.
- Identify safety and legal provisions relating to the work and responsibilities of an employer and employee.
Written Test
- Define and describe responsibilities in the workplace environment of an employer and employee.
- Discuss work ethics, norms and values.
- Learners will gain access to the skills programme through RPL for Access as provided for in the QCTO RPL Policy. RPL for access is conducted by an accredited institution, skills development provider or workplace accredited to offer that specific skills programme.
- Learners who have already acquired competencies of modules of a skills programme will be exempted from modules through RPL. Such learners will be awarded credits towards the skills programme.
- Learners who complete this skills programme will accumulate credits towards the relevant full or part qualification. The Credit Accumulation and Transfer (CAT) Policy shall apply to these learners.
Learner completing this Skills Program can be employed in the various industry Sectors as well as access further learning.