Fees & Government Funding

Queensland Government Funding

Career Start and Career Boost Funding

Career Start helps Queenslanders kick off their careers or move into higher-skilled or full-time roles.

Career Boost helps Queenslanders to level-up at work, enabling them to grow and apply their skills to existing or new roles, and support productivity growth and workplace innovation.

Through this program, you can start an apprenticeship or traineeship that blends paid work with recognised training delivered by SWC Training. These pathways are designed to build the practical skills employers are looking for while reducing your upfront training costs. Rather than paying the full course fee, you or your employer only contribute a smaller portion, with the rest supported by government funding.

The Queensland Government subsidises eligible apprentices and trainees through:

• School-based apprenticeships and traineeships (SBATs) for high school students wanting to gain hands-on experience.
• Career Start: for job seekers who want to complete a Certificate II or III qualification in a priority or emerging industry. Eligible participants can undertake up to two funded apprenticeships or traineeships at these levels.
• Career Boost: for individuals looking to develop the higher-level skills needed to secure employment, advance their careers, or progress to further education and training.

What can we deliver?

General Training

• CPP30321 Certificate III in Cleaning Operations
• HLT33115 Certificate III in Health Services Assistance
• HLT37121 Certificate III in Hospital or Health Services Pharmacy Support
• HLT47121 Certificate IV in Hospital or Health Services Pharmacy Support

Apprenticeships and Traineeships

• CPP30321 Certificate III in Cleaning Operations
• HLT33115 Certificate III in Health Services Assistance
• HLT33115 Certificate III in Health Services Assistance (Operating Theatre Assistant)
• HLT33115 Certificate III in Health Services Assistance (Assistant in Nursing)
• HLT37121 Certificate III in Hospital or Health Services Pharmacy Support
• SIT30622 Certificate III in Hospitality

Career Start – Funding Eligibility

To qualify for funding under the Career Start Apprenticeship or Traineeship program, applicants must meet the following criteria:

• Be employed under a formal training contract for a government-subsidised qualification, with the contract registered on the official state training system.
• Hold a valid visa that permits work in Australia (for non-Australian residents).
• Not currently be studying another qualification.
• Have not completed more than two government-funded apprenticeships or traineeships (including any school-based programs) in the past ten years.

Funding Eligibility 

Under Career Start, you may access up to 2 funded training places through one of the following options:

• a qualification in a certificate III under the general training pathway and an apprenticeship or traineeship. If the apprenticeship or traineeship is completed first, you are not eligible to access a general training pathway qualification under Career Start

or

• two apprenticeships and traineeships in either a certificate II or III (school-based apprenticeships and traineeships are included in this total).

Under Career Boost, you may access either:

• one funded training place in either a certificate IV, diploma of advanced diploma qualification under the general training pathway

or

• a higher-level apprenticeship or traineeship in certificate IV or above.

In addition, under Career Boost, you may access up to 2 funded skill sets in priority industries or sectors.

If you have already accessed 2 apprenticeships or traineeships through a school-based apprenticeship or traineeship or Career Start within the last 10 years, you are not eligible to undertake an apprenticeship or traineeeship under Career Boost.

You cannot do 2 general training pathway qualifications under Career Boost.