Toitū te Waiora is undertaking national consultation on draft Health and Wellbeing core Skill Standards following on from the 2024 Health and Wellbeing qualifications review.    

These standards have been developed in collaboration with subject matter experts from across the sector and are designed to be transferable across roles and environments within the Health and Wellbeing sector. 

This marks the first phase of skill standard development in the health and wellbeing space. Future phases will focus on the development of skill standards designed for specific health and wellbeing roles and settings. 

Proposed core skill standards:

Level 2 

• (2A PDF) 

• (2B PDF) 

• (2C PDF) 

• (2D PDF) 

Level 3 

• (3A PDF) 

• (3B PDF) 

• (3C PDF) 

• (3D PDF) 

Level 4  

• (4A PDF) 

• (4B PDF) 

• (4C PDF) 

• (4D PDF) 

 

Programme Guidance

We have also developed comprehensive Guidance Notes to support providers who want to deliver programmes of study assessed by these skill standards. A copy of the guidance is available here (DRAFT Guidance notes PDF), and we welcome any feedback.  

We Welcome Your Feedback

We invite you to share your views on the proposed standards and share this information with your wider networks.  

Click here to complete our short survey with targeted questions.  

Email other feedback to:  [email protected]  

If you are not overly familiar with skill standards yet we have drafted some guidance people to assist them in providing feedback which can be found here (skill standard guidance PDF) 

Feedback on the proposed skill standards is requested by 5pm Friday 29 August.  

For more details about the Health and Wellbeing Skill Standard Development Project please check out the project page.