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What we do

What we do

RN Employment Services are focused on helping the local community with skills, jobs and training. Through our local partnerships we aim to give back and empower others to be a positive force for good.
RN Employment offers a unique approach that ensures that we place the community at the centre of our strategy. Our belief is that training and a job helps not just one person, it affects the whole family and flows onto the local community.

We work closely with local Community Advisory Boards, local employers, government departments, stakeholders and partners. Our focus is on community and individual outcomes that improve skills, provide useful training and generate employment outcomes. We always work to factor in cultural and social, health and emotional wellbeing outcomes not just for individuals but for the community as a whole.

Opportunity discussions are also held regularly with other stakeholders including employers, councils, industry and Government bodies.

The majority of our staff are Aboriginal, and local to the communities we serve. We understand how to work with local people to build their confidence and skills in a culturally safe environment.

We offer activities, projects, and training for practical skills both informal and formal, to meet the local employment market requirements.

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Capacity building

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Helping our community get jobs

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Working with local employers

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Cultural training and employment initiatives

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Capacity building

We focus on real capacity building and generating local jobs for local people. RN Employment creates training with real world applications. Through our training, participants learn new skills for employment opportunities whilst working on projects that give back to their local community.

CDP Participants from Elliott completed training in Cert II in Civil Construction. During the training, the team built a dome shade structure, learnt how to concrete, weld, and successfully completed their white card training as well. Not only has the training given each participant new skills, but they have also created a functional area for the community to have shade and one participant gain employment from this training.

The Ali Curung team completed four weeks of training in Cert II Construction and put their new skills to work by constructing grandstand seating located in the community park, the seats will be used for movie nights and other events.

RN Employment Men’s Group in partnership with GTNT Group, Batchelor Institute and NT government Industry Northern Territory to build a cubby house for the Kentish Lifelong Learning and Care in Tennant Creek. All involved learnt new skills and others shared their knowledge. It was a joy to provide a suitable place for the little ones to play and enjoy at the care centre.

Helping our community get jobs

RN Employment Services assists all participants to be job ready.

We make sure each jobseeker has all the assistance they need; RN Employment ensures that each participant has appropriate clothes (using donated clothes from community) for the interview, we drive jobseekers to an interview and pick them up if needed, assist with application forms for online and any other paperwork that is needed to support a job application.

RN helps with creating a resume, help with cover letters and making sure each jobseeker feels confident for upcoming interviews.

We make sure that job ready activities are not just about practical skills but also focuses on soft skills as well. Many of the soft skills we are focusing on are the desire to learn, communication, common sense safety, teamwork, managing conflict, sharing of knowledge, time keeping, time management and multi-tasking.

Working with local employers

RN Employment Services work with many local employers, to provide a local job ready and respond to local and seasonal requirements. This includes activity such as Local Jobs Expos, bespoke training, and supporting local community initiatives.

A Jobs Expo was held at the old Adult Education Centre building in the Mutitjulu Community. The event was well attended by various stakeholders from community as well as by Voyages resort personnel, Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park personnel as well as Government officials. Community members who attended received show bags full of goodies from different stakeholders while speaking to them about jobs available with many following up after the event.
We work with Karen Sheldon Training for many of our training programs. RN Employment Services and Karen Sheldon Training won the NT Best Business Collaboration award at the NT Business Excellence and Customer Services Awards for the Barkly Region and finalist in the whole NT awards held by the Chamber of Commerce.

RN Employment Services works with Saltbush in Elliott to support their School Nutrition Program & Community Support (School holiday program). The school nutrition program aims to improve school attendance and engagement by Indigenous school-aged children. Nutrition programs can boost attendance, qualitative data shows that students who have consumed a meal before school have improved concentration and better engage in their education. Saltbush runs this program in the Elliott community and supports up to 50 families.

Generating our own cultural training and employment initiatives

At RN Employment Services we generate our own initiatives that celebrate the unique art forms of local Indigenous cultures and helps build a burgeoning tourist industry.

The Culture for Life Program is a six-week program in Mutitjulu. It is a performative exploration into live performance works and is supported by a curated program of physical theatre training, event management and contemporary arts practice. The program allows people to participate and with the understanding that not all people want to be on stage, this program connects event management and production skills to realise a collaborative production. RN Employment is pleased to be supporting this initiative and hope that it gives local jobseekers skills to be job ready if they decide to pursue a career in the arts.

Painted maps on car bonnets – Teams from Tennant Creek and Ali Curung created detailed painted maps to help the local community with signage and showcasing that recycled item can be reused for other purposes. The artworks for both areas were included in the Northern Territory Art Trail, an increasingly important tourist attraction.

RN Employment was instrumental in creating painted cars to show the impact and effects of drink driving.

Image: Four ladies smiling standing outside a building

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RN Employment Services acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises their connection to land, water and community. We pay our respects to them and their cultures, and to Elders past, present and emerging.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this website may contain images, voices or names of people who may have passed away.

Artwork by Michael Carr 'Country of the Barkly'