We’re excited to bring you the latest updates, insights, and stories from our journey towards building a skilled, and qualified workforce in Aotearoa New Zealand, across the health, education, community and social sectors. Thank you for being a part of our workforce community. Each edition will keep you informed about our programmes, initiatives, and events, as well as share resources to help you either as a provider or a person interested in the work we do.
It’s been another busy month for Toitū te Waiora as we prepare to hand over our work programme to the new Health & Community Industry Skills Board (ISB) in December.
As you can see below, we have submitted a lot of micro-credentials, skill standards and qualifications to NZQA for approval in the past month and still have a few more to go.
We’re also proud of our recently published Qualifications Snapshot and Industry Snapshot, which you can read more about below.
The Health & Community ISB Establishment Advisory Group (EAG) has now issued Expressions of Interest for two roles. These are a QSP Team Leader and a QA Team Leader. No further information has been provided on the structure of the ISB however we do know that any other roles will be advertised externally from January. The EAG is continuing with its recruitment process for a CE.
If you want more information on the ISB establishment, the TEC website is your best source of information.
I was fortunate enough to attend the recent ITENZ conference in Queenstown last month and was humbled by the number of providers and stakeholders who shared their appreciation for the work Toitū te Waiora has done over the past four years, particularly in the quality assurance space, and the impact we have made. We have always been committed to our mission and purpose and we end in December knowing we have made a difference to our sectors and industries.
Thanks to those of you who were there and shared your thoughts with us, our kaimahi appreciated hearing the proof that we’ve made a difference.
It’s important to us that we complete our ambitious work programme by December as we navigate our way to disestablishment on 31 December. Thank you for your ongoing support.
Ngā mihi, Sean McKinley Chief Executive
We have recently developed our Qualification Snapshot which provides some quick statistics about our qualifications, the people who study them, and the organisations that support learners.
Our Industry Snapshot provides a high level overview of industry workforces, showing the most common occupations, work patterns and skills that are in demand. You can also find basic demographics of the industry’s workforce.
We hope these will be useful tools for the sectors and industries we support.
The Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) review took place earlier this year and was submitted to NZQA for approval in June. Following further communication with NZQA, the revised CMR 0024v10 was approved in August. To read more about this process and view the NZQA Change Report and new CMR Requirements, head to our website.
Following recent consultation on the New Zealand Certificate in Disability Support (Level 3 and Level 4), both qualifications have now been submitted to NZQA for approval. The Disability Support Skill Standards (Level 3) have also been submitted.
Thanks to everyone who provided useful feedback during the consultation phases. You can read the summary documents on our website.
Thanks to those of you who participated in the consultation for this proposed new qualification, developed in collaboration with Community Housing Aotearoa and supported by sector stakeholders. Your feedback has ensured the qualification is relevant, practical and meets the needs of the sector. It was submitted to NZQA for approval last week.
The Health and Wellbeing core skill standards across Levels 2,3 and 4 have now been submitted to NZQA for approval. They have been designed to be transferable across roles and settings in the health and wellbeing sector.
Three skill standards and a micro-credential have been submitted to NZQA for approval, which were developed in collaboration with Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora in response to training gaps identified during the Toitū te Waiora 2024 Health and Wellbeing qualification review. These will build workforce capability and support access to timely and effective, culturally safe eye care.
Consultation is open until Wednesday 15 October on four skill standards and two micro-credentials, which will support frontline workers to improve how they understand and safely respond to risk, and enable safety and wellbeing. These are being developed in collaboration with the Centre for Family Violence and Sexual Violence Prevention, which align to the Family Violence Risk and Safety Practice Framework.
A micro-credential and a skill standard (Apply clinical coding principles and processes in a health and wellbeing setting Level 5, 30 credits) have now been approved by NZQA. Toitū te Waiora was approached by Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora in February this year to discuss the development of three clinical coding micro-credentials at entry, intermediate and advanced levels. This micro-credential and skill standard represents entry level. Any future development work would be managed by the incoming Health & Community Industry Skills Board from 1 January 2026.
