Registered Trade Skills Pathway (RTSP)

A Non-Traditional Apprenticeship Model

Designed for Casual Cooks

The course is called Registered Trade Skills Pathway or RTSP for short. Offered in partnership with the Queensland Tourism Industry Council (QTIC) and funded by the Queensland Government, this program offers a non-traditional apprenticeship model that has been designed for casual cooks currently working in the industry the opportunity to gain the professional trade qualification SIT30821 Certificate III in Commercial Cookery.

Course Requirements

Students must be Australian citizens or permanent residents of Australia and more importantly, must live in Queensland to be eligible for this funding. Also, we ask that all students be 21 years and over and currently employed as a cook or chef in a casual position.

Who the Course Has Helped

Most of our students already enrolled or having completed this course last year, were not able to complete a regular apprenticeship due to many constraints including time, job positions (casual), transient employment (moving from job to job), family commitments (parents or main carers for children), money issues around wages (low income as an apprentice isn’t suitable) and most of all mature aged experienced students not wanting to start the trade as a lowly first-year apprentice!

If this sounds like you, then contact us soon as places are limited. Call now on 1300 843 423.

Eligibility

 Must be a Queensland resident with a current Queensland address (evidence necessary)
 Over 21 years of age
 Working in a suitable casual position in a commercial kitchen

Application Process

Contact ICE on 1300 843 423 or email your expression of interest to admin@theice.edu.au
Once we have assessed your suitability for this program you will need to fill in a QTIC application form.
ICE will lodge this with QTIC
If your application is successful, an ICE workplace assessor will contact you and arrange a meeting
A competency conversation will take place and an individual training plan will be developed.
ICE enrolment forms and other documents need to be completed
Evidence of eligibility and proof of Queensland residency will need to be provided.

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Alison Taafe

Director & Training Manager

Alison has been a professional chef for nearly 40 years. She trained in London at the highly prestigious Westminster Hotel School where she received the Westminster School Diploma in Professional Cookery. She then spread her wings and travelled around the globe working in some of the world’s finest kitchens, cooking for movie stars, pop stars, sporting greats and more importantly royalty, namely Queen Elizabeth II and two US presidents both Reagan and Bush Snr. along the way. Alison eventually reached Australia in 1988 where she was appointed as chef for the VIP Lounge of the Australian Pavilion at World Expo 88. She has lived in Australia for 32 years.
She began her professional teaching career in 1996 and gained a Bachelor of Adult and Vocational Teaching from Griffith University in 2000. She also held the role of a tenured Leading Vocational Culinary Teacher at Southbank Institute of Technology (COTAH) for 14 years. During this tenure, she received several awards. In 2004, Alison was the first chef to win a prestigious ‘Churchill Fellowship’ which was a great honour. Alison claimed a further award namely ‘Outstanding Educator’ in 2006 for the degree program she wrote for chefs in Australia.
In 2014, Alison launched ‘The Institute of Culinary Excellence’ (ICE) which is a registered RTO. ICE started with only 8 apprentice chef students. Over the last 6 years, ICE has trained over 2000 apprentice and trainee chefs, from most of the top 10 restaurants in Brisbane. After only 4 years of operation, ICE was awarded ‘Best School in Queensland’ in 2018, runner-up in the national awards, and named ‘Best Culinary School’ in Australia.

Media-wise, Alison was the resident chef on Channel 9 for several years and has made many appearances on TV. Alison has written 5 books: ‘Fun, Fast and Fabulous Food’ (2008) ‘Leftovers Magic’ (2010), ‘Eat For Your Life’ (2013), the proceeds from the sale of this book go directly to her cancer charity ‘Eat For A Cure’ aimed at helping people use food to overturn terminal illness.

She released her 4th book ‘Food for Thought’ (2016) in conjunction with ASCA (Australian Schools Canteen Association) where she hoped to ‘health up’ tuck shops in Australian schools. Finally, she completed her 5th book ‘The Recipe Resource’ (2019), an eBook for QMOW (Queensland Meals on Wheels) assisting in providing healthy and nutritious food for the elderly. Just recently Alison completed an Oxford University Program in Strategic Leadership and was awarded honours for her efforts.
Alison is the CEO and Training Manager for ICE and her students become part of her extended family. All the students at ICE are respected, motivated, inspired, and lead by her and her incredible team of teachers and trainers. Alison leads ICE by example and her work ethic, leadership and professionalism as a teacher and professional chef are second to none.

Her dream for ICE was to ‘transform lives through food’ and she has certainly done that…

Registered Trade Skills Pathway (RTSP)

A Non-Traditional Apprenticeship Model

Designed for Casual Cooks

Course Requirements

Who the Course Has Helped

Eligibility

Application Process

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