BUSINESS
Strong demand expected for new apprenticeship programme Careerforce, the Industry Training Organisation for the health and wellbeing sectors, has launched the New Zealand Apprenticeship in Advanced Care and Support. The level 4, 122-126 credit programme is just one part of an effort to help address an ageing and overwhelmed aged care, and home & community workforce, further complicated by the impacts of COVID-19. 18
orkplaces will now have the option to choose between the Advanced Care and Support trainee programme which was earlier launched in 2021, or this new apprenticeship, depending on their staff ’s needs. Like the trainee programme, the apprenticeship is a two-year programme that leads to the awarding of the New Zealand Certificate in Health and Wellbeing (Level 4) Advanced Care and Support. Apprentices working in the aged care and home and community support sectors will develop the skills required to provide personcentred or relationship-centred care and support to people with complex needs. The launch of this apprenticeship comes after the March 2022 release of the biennial Aged
