About the Community Services and Health Industry Skills Council (CS&H ISC)
Delivering skills for tomorrow's health and community services industry, today.
The Community Services and Health Industry Skills Council (ISC) is the architect of national training packages which deliver tomorrow's skills to workers in the community services and health sectors today – enabling them not only to do their jobs, but to do them to the best of their ability.
Our vision is simple:
A community services and health workforce with sufficient competence that, if deployed and managed well, will respond appropriately to the needs of the Australian population so its health and wellbeing is promoted, maintained and, where necessary, restored.
Ultimately, the Industry Skills Council works in partnership with individual enterprises and industry bodies in all states and territories to promote a learning culture in the workplace and increase participation in training with a view to ensuring everyone working in the industry has access to nationally recognised skills development.
Our role is to:
- Help individual enterprises and broad industry sectors – and their workforces – integrate skills development needs and business goals
- Provide accurate industry intelligence on future skills directions, including strategic advice
- Develop, implement and continuously improve high quality, nationally recognised training products, services and support materials that are both innovative and efficient (rationalising materials where there are cross- industry synergies, for example)
- Promote and market training and skill development to our industries
- Monitor the performance of VET in these industries and respond to opportunities, barriers and issues as they arise
- Deliver a national VET plan for our industries each year that is used for State and Commonwealth training funding allocations, amongst other things.
Our aims include:
- Maximising the benefits of VET services and products for the community services and health industry, ensuring they are appropriate, current and flexible enough to meet the diverse needs of the workforce
- Enhancing mutual learning with a view to appropriately skilling the workforce to meet service needs
- Promoting VET products and services to non-mainstream learners
- Researching and promoting industry intelligence that helps the Skills Council and its industry partners meet their current and future service demands
- Ensuring the high quality of VET services and products we create is maintained at implementation stage.
Related Links:
ISC Board of Directors
ISC Staff/Secretariat
Reports and Research