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What is the Career Boost Program?
Career Boost aims to take a person’s career to the next level, enabling them to grow and apply their skills to existing or new job roles and to support productivity growth and workplace innovation.
The program delivers training to help individuals develop the higher-level skills needed to secure employment, advance their careers, or progress to further education and training to undertake university or tertiary qualifications.
Career Boost offers either a general training pathway or employment-based apprenticeship or traineeship pathway.
Under Career Boost, an eligible individual may access:
- one subsidised training place in either a certificate IV, diploma, or advanced diploma qualification under the general training pathway; OR
- Â a higher level apprenticeship/traineeship at certificate IV or above; and
- Â up to two subsidised skill sets in priority industries or sectors as part of the program.
Note: If the individual has already accessed two apprenticeships/traineeships through a school based apprenticeship or traineeship (SAT) or Career Start within the last 10 years, they are not eligible to undertake an apprenticeship/traineeship under Career Boost.
An individual cannot do two general training pathway qualifications under Career Boost. This is to ensure equitable access for all eligible Queenslanders to a training opportunity.
What courses are funded under Career Boost?
Qualifications
Delivered Online (Nationally)
- CHC43015 Certificate IV Ageing SupportÂ
- CHC43415 Certificate IV in Leisure and Health
- CHC43315 Certificate IV in Mental Health
- CHC40221 Certificate IV in School-Based Education Support
- CHC42021 Certificate IV in Community Services
Delivered Online (Nationally) and Class-Based (Brisbane and Gold Coast campus)Â
Skills Sets
Delivered Online (Nationally)
- CHCSS00128 – High Support and Complex Care – Disability Support
- CHCSS00070 – Assist Clients with Medication Skill Set
- CHCSS00133 – Induction to Disability Support
- CHCSS00129 – Individual Support Ageing Skill Set
- CHCSS00130 – Individual Support Disability Skill Set
- CHCSS00140 – Case Management Skill Set
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for the Career Boost Program, you must meet the following criteria below:
- be aged 15 years or over, and no longer at school
- be a Queensland resident
- be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or Australian permanent resident (including humanitarian entrants), or a temporary resident with the right visa and work permits on the pathway to permanent residency
- not already hold a certificate IV level or higher qualification (including tertiary qualification) completed within the last 10 years, (Qualifications completed as a school student do not count)Â NOTE:Â This eligibility requirement does not apply to individuals seeking to enrol in a skill set
- not be enrolled in another qualification, even if deferred.
- Participate in a pre – enrolment assessment
Along with the eligibility criteria above, specific entry restrictions or exemptions may apply to certain subsidised qualifications and skill sets. These are set by industry or sector requirements, as well as national training package guidelines.
For further information and to check your eligibility, please refer to the Department of Education and Training website.
Student Contribution Fees
Under this program students are required to make a financial contribution towards the cost of the training and assessment services for their selected course. There is a mandatory student contribution fee for all students undertaking a subsidised Certificate Qualification. There are two levels of contributions a general student-non-concession and a concessional student. The total Co -contribution fee payable represents the full out of pocket expenses to the student.
*Note: as of 01/08/2025
Am I eligible for Concession?
A concessional student fee is applicable for the following eligible students:
- the student holds a Health Care , Veteran or Pensioner Concession Card issued under Commonwealth law, or is the partner or a dependant of a person who holds such a Card and is named on the card
- holds an official form issued under Commonwealth law, confirming that they, their partner or the person of whom they are a dependant is entitled to concessions under a Health Care, Veteran or Pensioner Concession card
- the student is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
- the student has a disability
- the student is an adult prisoner
