Elements and Performance Criteria
- Define work roles for shed staff
- Define the roles and responsibilities of shed staff
- Identify the skills of shed staff and match with available tasks and duties
- Identify the requirements of job duties and Code of Practice and communicate to shed staff
- Explain work health and safety policy and procedures to staff and monitor implementation
- Explain animal welfare and biosecurity policies to staff and monitor implementation
- Induct shed staff
- Identify work health and safety hazards, assess risks and implement suitable controls
- Communicate the details of shearing, including flock and mob details to staff
- Brief new staff on relevant awards, enterprise agreements, pay rates and related administration
- Advise new staff of terms and conditions and sign on
- Familiarise new staff with the workplace and colleagues
- Explain the enterprise’s environmental policy and procedures and monitor implementation
- Support on-the-job training
- Encourage individuals to self-evaluate performance and identify areas for improvement
- Determine training needs through appraisal of staff and monitoring of work performance
- Analyse practical skills and then explained and demonstrated as required
- Provide workplace learning opportunities with coaching and mentoring to support learning
- Adjust staff responsibilities to allow for practice and skills development where required
- Performance manage shed staff
- Establish performance standards for clip preparation and communicate to individuals and the team
- Explain skirting requirements and monitor skirtings ratio
- Describe the requirements for separating specific parts of the fleece to wool handlers using the Code of Practice and processor requirements
- Use motivation strategies for shed staff to maintain a consistent focus on clip preparation standards and timing of operations
- Maintain effective working relations with the team
- Recognise problems and address through discussion with work group
- Seek assistance from work group members when difficulties arise in achieving allocated tasks
- Use discussion and information sharing to communicate requirements of work activities through a participative approach
- Manage disagreements and conflicts constructively using appropriate conflict management strategies
- Provide feedback to shed staff
- Provide confirmatory feedback to emphasise good performance and technique and its importance for clip quality
- Provide corrective feedback in a constructive way, including an explanation of the effects of poor performance or incorrect technique and strategies for improvement
- Address under performance both on an individual and team basis
- Use clip data to share feedback on clips prepared with team members