In the veterinary sector, there is a growing demand for broader skills to provide essential care and treatment to animals across diverse environments and species. It is important that nationally endorsed veterinary nursing qualifications and related training package products align with the full range of different contexts and job tasks required.
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Skills Insight is consulting with the veterinary sector to understand their workforce challenges and identify how nationally endorsed training package products for veterinary nursing skills may be adapted to meet current needs.
The project begins with a skills review to analyse current and future practices in veterinary nursing across a variety of animal species and contexts. Opportunities and challenges identified will inform recommendations about the next step, which involves the review and development of training package products.
The second part of this project will commence in August 2025 to take advantage of the new training package product flexibility that comes into effect in July 2025. The new approach to developing training package products will be utilised to support veterinary nursing career pathways and assist in addressing retention rates and skills shortages.
Part 1: Skills Review
The skills review will include veterinary nurses, veterinarians, employers, unions, associations, registered training organisations and other stakeholders to help analyse veterinary nursing functions and responsibilities.
The skills review will result in a report that will include key findings, a series of recommendations for future work to address the identified issues, and recommended adjustments to the relevant training package products in line with the new qualification design approach identified in VET Qualification Reform.
Part 2: Training package product review
Current qualifications, units and companion volumes will be reviewed to determine how the training package can evolve to better meet any skills needs identified in the Skills Review.
Current training package products
Through stakeholder collaboration, the project team aim to:
How to get involved
Starting in February, stakeholders will be invited to participate in the Skills Review. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay informed about when the Skills Review will commence and how you can get involved.
Following publication of the Skills Review, the project team will consult with stakeholders to commence part two of this project.
Key stakeholder organisations have been identified for this project. Skills Insight will ensure contact is made throughout this project to seek involvement and views on skills requirements.
If you are aware of an organisation or other key stakeholders that you think should be involved, please contact the project team at [email protected]
Timeline
Project Team
Jess Cleary
Stakeholder Engagement Manager
Skills Insight
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Susie Falk
Project Manager
Skills insight
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Penny McQueen
Project Manager
Skills Insight
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Maree Thorne
Industry Skills Standards Contractor
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During the development stage, key stakeholders, including subject matter experts, are engaged and consulted to gather further information and begin investigating potential solutions.
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At the broad consultation stage, we present and discuss potential solutions, collecting feedback from a wide range of stakeholder across the country. It follows consultation with various stakeholders that has already taken place throughout the project.
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At the finalisation stage, final checks are conducted and the outcomes of the project are submitted to the Department for consideration. Following this, outcomes are published or enacted.
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