QCTO Skills Programme ID: SP-211009
SP: Workplace Essential Skills

Title of Qualification:
QCTO Skills Programme ID: SP-211009  SP: Workplace Essential Skills.

Duration of Qualification:
This programme will be covered over a period of 5 days.

Total Number of Credits: 20.

Entry Requirements
N/A. 

  • Topic 1 The workplace environment and responsibilities of an employer and employee NQF Level 4, Credits 8.
  • Topic 2 Employment
  • Topic 3 The organisation of work
  • Topic 4: Concepts related to the employee’s performance of work
  • Topic 5: Employer organisations
  • Topic 6: External environments in which organisations operate
  • Topic 7: Employer-Employee relationships
  • Topic 8 Workplace health and safety
  • Topic 9 Understand and apply work ethics, norms and values
  • Topic 10 Ethics at work
  • Topic 11 Communication
  • Topic 12 Current trends influencing work
  • Topic 1 The workplace environment and responsibilities of an employer and employee
  • Topic 2 Apply for a career opportunity
  • Topic 3 Prepare and undertake an interview
  • Topic 4 Analyse an employment contract
  • Topic 5 Analyse a workplace policy and guideline
  • Topic 6 The workplace environment and responsibilities of an employer and employee
  • Topic 7 Apply and accept a internship at a Workplace Experience provider.
  • Topic 8 Demonstrate understanding of Occupational Health and Safety legislation in the workplace
  • Topic 9 Induction at a Workplace Experience provider, covering general work place policies, procedures and standards
  • Topic 10 Observe and undertake general task/s within Workplace Experience provider workplace WM-01-WE05 Rate Workplace Experience Provider
  • Topic 11 Understand and apply work ethics, norms and values
  • Topic 12 Work as a team member
  • Topic 13 Participate in and contribute to workplace meetings
  • Topic 14 Contribute to maintaining a safe and productive Work Environment

Workplace Essential Skills are the skills needed for work, learning and life. WES training is
designed to support apprentices who have experienced difficulties within a company working
environment. The purpose of this skills programme is to prepare a learner to operate as an
employee and to complete daily tasks and activities at a workplace. No similar skills
programme is not already approved and listed by the QCTO. Workplace Essential Skills are
used in every industry and at different levels of complexity. They provide the foundation for
learning other skills and enable employees adapt to modern working practices and workplace
change. Workplace Essential Skills are the core skills you need to continue learning and to
complete daily tasks and activities at work. The benefit to industry sector to address
inequalities and to grow the economy, by enabling community reskilling and upliftment of an
individual or society with providing employable skills The typical learners for the skills
programme is employed and unemployed South Africans, including those employed or
previously employed in low-skilled occupations. Workplace Essential Skills is a concept which
is growing in importance in training, literacy and skills upgrading in the context of the
workplace.

The purpose of this skills programme is to prepare a learner to

  • operate as an employee and to complete daily tasks and activities at a workplace
  • Workplace Essential Skills are used in every industry and at different levels of
    complexity. They provide the foundation for learning other skills and enable
    employees adapt to modern working practices and workplace change.
  • Workplace Essential Skills are the core skills you need to continue learning and to
    complete daily tasks and activities at work.
  • Workplace Essential Skills are the skills needed for work, learning and life.