SP: Workplace Essential Skills

PURPOSE AND RATIONALE OF THE QUALIFICATION:

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. Workplace Essential Skills are the skills needed for work, learning and life.

SKILLS RATIONALE:

Workplace Essential Skills are the skills needed for work, learning and life. WES training is designed to support apprentices who have experienced difficulties within a company working environment. 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. No similar skills programme is not already approved and listed by the QCTO. 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 The typical learners for the skills programme is employed and unemployed South Africans, including those employed or previously employed in low-skilled occupations. Workplace Essential Skills is a concept which is growing in importance in training, literacy and skills upgrading in the context of the workplace. “Essential Skills” was developed through research and interviews conducted by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) with over 5000 Canadian workers. Rather than thinking only of a course or certificate needed for a job, Workplace Essential Skills looks at the actual skills used on the job and measures the skill level required.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:

• LEVEL 1

EXIT LEVEL OUTCOMES:

• 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.