MBA GROUP APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING SCHEME

The Master Builders Association Group Apprenticeship Training Scheme is a full-time employment based training program that provides an opportunity to learn all aspects of a trade in the building and construction industry.  The MBA Group Apprenticeship Training Scheme embraces the approach whereby an apprentice is registered with the Association and outsourced to builders and subcontractors on a rotational basis to provide workplace-training experience. It is a uniquely Australian scheme aimed at providing builders and subcontractors with apprentices in the building and construction industry.

Alternatively, if the builder and subcontractor have their own apprentice, the Association can contract that individual through the Scheme and provide them with the same service.

This successful system is advantageous to training employers who work in an unpredictable and constrained environment and who are unable to offer continuous satisfactory training on their own.

This system also gives the apprentices an opportunity to be placed in different environments with various facilities and aspects of the work, developing their talents further, resulting in a pool of people with a wider range of expertise, competence and versatility.

MBA apprentices are not only exposed to an on-the-job and off-the-job training environment but also obtain a nationally recognised qualification which has been developed by industry for the industry under the MBA as a registered training organisation.

One of the main advantages of a training employer appointing an apprentice through the apprenticeship scheme is to assist in the development of a more productive worker who is familiar with the training employer?s business and trained for that particular industry. 

Several other advantages include:

• Better trained, more versatile and multi-skilled worker
• Specific industry training helps the employer to gain a competitive advantage
• Provides a stable foundation for the growth of your business
• Apprenticeship training is focused on competence
• Industry support
• Control over recruitment process
• Employing an apprentice of your choice

Should the training employer be unable to sustain continued employment of the apprentice, the MBA Scheme will arrange for the relocation of the apprentice without any cost to the training employer.

MBA SERVICES

The MBA employs the apprentice direct and administers the following:

• Finds a motivated apprentice to meet your requirements, ensuring the person you take on is suited to your workplace and can add value to your business
• Registers the apprentice, administers the training contract and all subsequent documentation associated with the apprenticeship.
• Registers the apprentice with the Long Service Payments Corporation and issues long service certificates of service to apprentices
• Administers the Employment Declaration Form and issues Group Certificate to apprentice.
• Processes claims for Workers Compensation and claims for lost/damaged trade tools
• Maintains apprentice records of work performance, attendance, punctuality, attitude and progress in work skills
• Manages and co-ordinates the apprentices training to ensure the apprenticeship is completed in an optimum time frame
• Liaises with respective Technical Colleges in matters concerning MBA apprentices and industry needs
• Provides the Training Employer with up-to-date variations to awards and regulations affecting apprentice wages and conditions.
• Assisting in providing access to vocational training for those disadvantaged in the labour market.
• Provide services to the community that will contribute to the promotion of vocational education and training
• Mentors both the apprentice and host company

The MBA manages all the associated paperwork and simply forwards the host company a weekly invoice for the hours that the apprentice actually works.  Short or long term, you, as a training employer, is free to participate in training the apprentice for the period that suits you.

Don't delay, contact the MBA NSW for further information.

Head Office
52 Parramatta Rd
Forest Lodge
NSW 2037

Phone :  (02) 8586 3555
Fax :      (02) 9660 0055
Toll free 1800 451 393
Email : apprenticeship@mbansw.asn.au