Download more information about our services, activities and useful information about traineeships and apprenticeships.

Apprenticeships and Traineeships (Group Training)

Written for jobseekers

• Australian Apprenticeships (South Australia) - General information for jobseekers about what Australian Apprenticeships are and how you can access them. There are a a few minor differences between states, so there is also a Queensland Version and a Victorian Version
• Australian School Based Apprenticeships - You can start an Australian Apprenticeships while you are still at school, this tells you all about it!
• Indigenous Employment Programme (South Australia) - Maxima has a special programme to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people access Australian Apprenticeships, both after secondary school and through Australian School Based Apprenticeships (South Australia).

Of more interest to employers

• Effective Training and Employment (South Australia) - Provides information to employers about the role and benefits of using a Group Training Organisation to manage Australian Apprenticeships, how Maxima can work with your organisation to get the best outcomes from the Australian Apprenticeship system and some of the vocations available. There are a a few minor differences between states, so there is also a Queensland Version and a Victorian Version
• Austalian Apprenticeships: Information for employers - A concise brochure about accessing Australian Apprenticeships through Maxima.
• Australian School Based Apprenticeships - There are many benefits for employers that become involved in Australian School Based Apprenticeships - this brochure briefly outlines some of them and how an ASBA can work within your business.
• Customer Service Charter - The standards of service we set for ourselves.

Vocational Training (Maxima Training Services)

Course information

• Frontline Management - Practical and effective training suitable for supervisors, team leaders and managers across all industries.
• Ring! ring! Professional customer service - Telephone technique.

Forms and guides

• Qualification requirements and units of competence for all Certificates in Horticulture - A basic guide to the requirements for gaining a qualification in horticulture. This document lists all of the units and the required mix of units to gain a qualification in horticulture. All sector specific streams (e.g. floriculture, nursery, aboriculture, landscape etc) are included for all levels of qualification.
• Application Guide for RPL - Provides detail about the Recognition of prior learning process and a step by step guide to filling out an application for RPL.
• Application Form for RPL - Used ONLY for currently enrolled students.

Environmental

• Community Water Grant - Maxima is mindful of it's environmental responsibilities. As a training provider delivering programmes in horticulture, we are in a position to help the wider community by teaching and promoting environmentally friendly ways of living and working.

Occupational health and safety

Maxima produces a quarterly OHS&W newsletter for distribution to apprentices, trainees and temporary staff.

• Summer 2009/10 - It's ok to talk openly about RCD's; National OHS system taking shape; Time to get SOPpy; Australia leads the world....unfortunately; Trainees shine in the sunshine state.
• Winter 2009 - Blood, sweat and hopefully no tears; Youth@work; We're hassling; Warm up for winter exersions; Focussing on reducing workplace injuries.