English and Maths ability, and funding
- No school qualifications are required but you may be required to complete a literacy and numeracy assessment. If English is your second language you may also be assessed on your English language speaking and listening skills.
- You must be eligible for TEC L1/L2 funding, if your place on the programme is fully funded by TEC.
Covid-19 vaccination
- Applicants will be required to provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination for all students needing to go into a volunteer work placement as part of their programme.
Fit and Proper Person Check
- You will be interviewed to confirm your suitability and readiness to work safely with health consumers / tangata whai ora. This programme includes a practicum placement in a health setting working with vulnerable adults. If you have criminal convictions or charges pending you are unlikely to be accepted into the programme. You must declare all criminal convictions, pending charges or pending convictions, and give permission for a police check to be completed. Your enrolment will be confirmed after the Police vetting report is provided to Future Skills and no matters of concern are identified.
- All applicants are assessed to ensure they are a fit and proper person to work with vulnerable adults in the health and wellbeing sector. Applicants must give consent for NZ Police vetting as part of the fit and proper person assessment. Employees and volunteers within the sector may be required to undergo further and ongoing checks to confirm they remain a fit and proper person.
Enrolment
- We will have set intake dates per campus next year. Students will be selected in order of application.
- Future Skills recognises the importance of recruiting and training Maori and Pasifika for the health workforce. Future Skills’ recruitment strategies are designed to actively encourage these groups to participate in training, and the delivery of the programme is designed to welcome and value the cultural knowledge and life experience that these learners bring.
