Jobs, Skills and Pathways Coordination

Examples of how the Jobs, Skills and Pathways coordination funding can be used

Individual school

Jobs, Skills and Pathways Coordination funding must be used by schools to support the delivery of high-quality vocational and applied learning. For example, the funding may be used by an individual school for:

• employment of staff (noting the funding is equivalent to 0.3 full time equivalent (FTE) of an education support staff salary)
• employing casual relief teachers to allow time release for existing teachers
• increase in time fraction for an existing staff member in a related role (for example, Careers Practitioner, VET and/or VCE Coordinator (expanding the role to include the new VCE Vocational Major pathway) or Applied Learning Leader Coordinator)

Pooling Jobs, Skills and Pathways coordination funding with a small group or network

Schools may wish to pool their funding to employ staff. Schools should manage and agree this arrangement individually.

If a school uses the funds to employ staff, that school will be the employer and have direct responsibility for the employee. An employee who is employed in more than one school must have an administrative base school identified.

For example, schools could:

• employ a 0.6 to 1.0 FTE Jobs, Skills and Pathways Coordinator across a group of 2 or more in a close geographical location (for example, within a network)
• the Jobs, Skills and Pathways Coordinator would then be shared across the small group of schools

Jobs, Skills and Pathways Coordination funding in specialist school settings

Additional uses for the funding in specialist school settings may include:

• supporting student preparation and readiness for workplace learning experiences, including working with parents/carers
• supporting student offsite learning experiences with accompanying support staff
• supporting travel education (schools may wish to refer to the Travel Education Framework for students with disability resource)
• establishing local connections and completing complex administrative tasks to provide work experience opportunities for students with disability