Are you an RTO owner or manager who is looking for ways to improve your RTO’s compliance and performance? Are you worried about your RTO’s upcoming ASQA audit? Is your RTO compliant? If you are unsure about any of these questions, you may want to consider using the services of an RTO Advisory Group.
RTO Advisory Group can VET Advisory Group can provide a range of services to help RTOs with compliance including registration, addition to scope, assessment and validation and internal audit. In this blog, we will take a closer look at the different types of RTO consulting services that are available and how they can benefit your RTO.
RTO Registration Services
Our RTO registration services process includes:
- Understanding your business needs and goals: We will meet with you to discuss your business needs and goals, as well as the requirements for RTO registration.
- Developing a plan for RTO registration: We will work with you to develop a plan for RTO registration, including the steps you need to take, the resources you will need, and the timelines involved.
- Providing training on each step of the process: We will provide you with training on each step of the RTO registration process, to help you ensure that you are completing all of the required steps correctly.
- Creating a framework for your RTO: We will help you to create a framework for your RTO, including developing policies and procedures and putting in place the necessary systems and processes.
- Arranging learning and assessment resources: We can help you to arrange learning and assessment resources for your RTO, either by developing your own resources or sourcing them from external providers.
- Completing regulatory documents: We can help you to complete all of the required regulatory documents for RTO registration.
- Providing training sessions for staff: We can provide training sessions for your staff on all aspects of RTO compliance.
- Helping you to lodge your application for RTO registration.
- Helping you to prepare for the ASQA audit process.
- We will help you to get started with delivering training and assessment once your RTO application is approved.
Addition to Scope Services
Our addition to the scope services process includes:
- Conducting research on the training products you want to add to your scope: This will help to ensure that the training products are aligned with your RTO’s business goals and that they meet the needs of the industry.
- Updating your business plan, or creating a new one if required: This will ensure that your business plan is aligned with your new training products and that it reflects your RTO’s current goals and objectives.
- Helping you to develop and source training and assessment resources for your new training products.
- Helping you to develop a training and assessment strategy for your new training products: This strategy will ensure that your training assessment practices are aligned with the requirements of the training products and the relevant standards.
- Conducting industry consultation on your new training products: This will help to ensure that your training products are aligned with the needs of the industry and that they are likely to be successful.
- Review the profiles of your trainers to ensure that they have the necessary qualifications and experience to deliver your training products.
- Helping you to complete all of the other required documentation for adding new training products to your scope.
- Helping you to submit your application to ASQA to add new training products to your scope.
- Helping you to prepare for the ASQA audit that may be conducted as part of the addition to scope process.
- Providing audit support during the ASQA audit.
Support for Assessment and Validation
Our support for the assessment and validation process includes:
Assessment tool validation without student judgement
- Checking your assessment resources against the requirements of the training package to identify any gaps.
- Checking your assessment tool against the requirements of the training package to identify any gaps.
- Providing comments on your assessment resources to help you improve their clarity, accuracy, and alignment with the training package and standards.
Assessment tool validation with student judgement
- Participating in or leading the validation process based on your RTO requirements.
- Checking your assessment resources against the requirements of the training package to identify any gaps.
- Conducting a statistically valid sample size for validation.
- Checking your assessment tool against the requirements of the AQF level and the Standards for RTOs 2015
- Providing comments on your assessment resources and student samples to help you improve their clarity, accuracy, alignment with the training package and standards and sufficiency.
RTO Internal Audit
Our RTO internal audit process includes:
- Initial meeting to understand the requirements: We will meet with you to understand your RTO’s specific requirements and the scope of the internal audit.
- Audit preparations: We will develop an audit plan and gather all the relevant information.
- Audit execution: We will conduct the audit and interview staff as required.
- Audit reporting: We will provide you with a comprehensive audit report that includes our findings and recommendations.
- Close-out meeting: We will meet with you to discuss the audit report and answer any questions you may have.
Other RTO Consulting Services
In addition to the services listed above, VET Advisory Group also offers a range of other RTO consulting services, such as:
- Advice on the use of new technologies to reduce the compliance burden.
- Advice on how to stay compliant in the future.
- Advice on how to avoid compliance errors within the organisation.
- Assistance with finding the best solution to meet compliance requirements.
How VET Advisory Group can help your RTO
VET Advisory Group can help your RTO in a number of ways, including:
- Reducing your compliance risk: VET Advisory Group can help you to identify and address any areas of non-compliance within your RTO. This can help you to reduce your risk of being audited by ASQA and to avoid any potential penalties.
- Improving your RTO’s performance: VET Advisory Group can help you to develop and implement best practices for running your RTO. This can help you to improve your RTO’s performance and to achieve your business goals.
- Saving your time and money: VET Advisory Group can help you save time and money by taking care of complex tasks such as RTO registration, addition to scope, and assessment and validation