Gateway Courses
As a Gateway training provider, we will support the Gateway Co-ordinator and the student in their work experience placement and in their achievement of industry unit standards. The Gateway Co-ordinator’s selection criteria process needs to be robust, to ensure that the students have good literacy and numeracy skills so they can complete the work to an acceptable level and within the timeframe specified.
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At the start of the programme, it is recommended the students come into Avon City Ford’s training workshop to complete the Introduction to the Workplace Block Course. This is a 3-Day, 5 - Credit Course where the students will experience working within in a Motor Vehicle Dealership and will complete the unit standards listed below. This gives the tutor an opportunity to see how competent the student is in completing the theory work set for them and to gauge their practical ability and maturity, to ensure they are work ready.
During the course we will discuss with each trainee, the most desirable work placement option that will best suit their automotive interests and guide them to a career option that will be of the greatest benefit to them. We will send you a Training Plan that will have a list of the unit standard workbooks that the student will complete whilst on the programme. If you are having trouble finding a host employer, we can also assist you in placing the student into work experience.
When you have placed the student into Work Experience
Contact Phil Hayes, to advise both the student’s and the employer’s contact details so that he can support the employer/supervisor through the unit standard 17593 verification procedure, if required. This unit standard assessment will also be sent to you, along with the Trainee Induction Form, to give to the host employer. This includes instructions on how to complete the assessment, as it is an observation assessment.
We will send out the Learner’s Training Plan to the Gateway Co-ordinator. This plan has the unit standard achievement level, credit value and version. It also gives you a date that unit 17593 must be handed in for assessment.
17593 - Level 2, Credit 4: - Apply safe work practices in the workplace
Total Level 2 Credits for the course: 11 Credits
COST:
Introduction to the Workplace $465.00 GST Incl - per Student
TEC requires that Gateway Students have to achieve and minimum of 20 credits. To help you achieve this, we have a range of Level 2 and/or 3 - unit standards to choose from. If your students are doing automotive training in the school or if they have previously achieved automotive unit standards from other Training Providers, contact Training Manager so that he can put a Learning Plan together that will suit the student’s chosen career direction and fit in with their work experience placement. These unit standards can be practical and/or theory.
We will ensure that the price is for the year is capped at $695.00 incl GST per student.
Contact the Training Manager
Email: training@acford.co.nz
DDI Phone: (03) 266-1555 or Mobile: 027-238-7082
Expectations of Students​
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- All students are expected to behave in a mature and responsible manner at all times
(any unruly behaviour may result in instant removal from the course)
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- All school rules apply while students are attending courses
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- Cell phone texting or usage is not permitted during course hours, so phones must be handed to the tutor
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- Presentation – Clean, neat and tidy. Overalls are provided. Students need to wear Safety Boots
-Students are required to be motivated and to participate in all practical activities
ENROLMENT
FORM
Once completed send to training@acford.co.nz
Gateway Introduction to the Workplace
3 Days
This course allows the students to work within an Automotive Dealership. We give them an opportunity to view the different departments in the dealership, to see the range of jobs that are being carried out and gain knowledge about them so they can look at career options. This allows the student to gain credits and an awareness of job roles before they choose their work experience placement. The students will also complete a Health & Safety knowledge assessment along with a range of practical exercises to help them to keep safe in their work placement.
Practical
Activites
- Hoisting and jacking up vehicles
- Identify tyre wear and sizes, the reasons for balancing wheels ..and on vehicle wheel rotation
- Remove and refit a wheel onto a vehicle
- Balance a wheel off a vehicle
- Tools and vehicle componentry knowledge
Unit Standards Covered:
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3856 - Level 3, Credit 2: - DKO of good work habits and safe working practices in the
..........................................................motor related industries
21722 - Level 2, Credit 2: - Balance wheels off a vehicle in the motor industry
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21869 - Level 2, Credit 1: - Remove road wheels in the motor industry​
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Cost: $425.00 per student inclusive of GST
(This includes Assessment material and marking)
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Students are working towards achieving 5 Credits from this Block Course.
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NOTE: If students have completed some of the unit standards listed above, contact the Training Manager so that he can develop another Learning Plan for your student.
Below is a range of Automotive unit standards to choose from that may suit the student in work experience
