School Leavers Employment Supports (SLES)

LEAVING SCHOOL BUT NOT SURE WHATS NEXT?

LOOKING FOR A SLES PROVIDER?

Our STEP Program offers you skills for employment and is a powerful STEPPINGSTONE BETWEEN SCHOOL AND THE WORKFORCE.

Our STEP program runs 3 days a week over a 2-year period and runs 4units a year.

Each unit you will be immersed in a different industry.
ANIMAL CARE - RETAIL - HOSPITALITY - DIGITAL MEDIA - HANDYPERSON SKILLS - MICRO ENTERPRISE - HAIR, BEAUTY & BARBERING - CONSTRUCTION - AUTOMOTIVE - ADMINISTRATION

You will build industry-specific skills and have tangible, assessed outcomes.

You will learn what you’re good at and what you love to do, so when you are ready to get a job you will be confident, skilled.

Each of the three days is broken down into technical and practical skills. The program is strongly focused on attaining work experience that you are genuinely interested in and volunteering opportunities to prepare you for work.

2024 - 2025 Program Outline

1st Year

    • Cleaning

    • Food preparation

    • Safe storage

    • Waste management

    • Car detailing

    • Checking oil

    • Changing tyres

    • Changing wiper blades

    • Choose 2-3 forms

    • Mixing colours

    • Using painting tools

    • Applying painting techniques

    • Painting

    • Cleaning

    • Moving items

2nd Year

    • WH&S, including toolbox talk

    • Design a mini construction item

    • Plan the item’s construction

    • Construct item

    • Car detailing

    • Checking oil

    • Changing tyres

    • Animal handling Animal feeding Dog washing Personality traits of different animalsChanging wiper blades

    • Basic word processing tasks

    • Insert & resize picture

    • Intro to Publisher

    • Intro to excel

    • Use lawnmower

    • Use blower

    • Manage green waste

    • Grounds rubbish collection

    • Weeds maintenance

Last year our Warabrook STEP program learned about Digital Media and built a website to showcase their portfolio of amazing work