Skill Level: 3 | Assessing Authority: TRA
Job description
Plans and constructs garden landscapes.
Tasks Include:
- preparing and maintaining seedbeds and growing sites
- propagating and planting trees, bushes, hedges, flowers and bulbs
- preparing lawn areas by spreading top soil and planting grass, and by laying instant turf
- maintaining planted and grassed areas by weeding, trimming, fertilising, watering and mowing
- pruning trees and hedges, and installing plant support and protection devices
- preparing plans and drawings, selecting materials and plants, and scheduling landscape construction
- setting out and installing hardscape and softscape structures
- constructing gravel and paved areas, walls, fences, pergolas, ponds, barbecues and garden furniture
- examining trees to assess their condition and determine treatment
- lopping limbs off trees and shaping branches using chain and handsaws
- spraying and dusting plants and trees to control insects and disease, and felling diseased trees
Documents Requirement
The following is a summary of the documentation list that you need in order to submit your application for the skill assessment. All applications submitted to TRA must be decision ready. Please visit tradesrecognitionaustralia.gov.au for a comprehensive list of all of the document requirements.
Please note that if any of your required documents are not written in English, you will also need to submit the original document with an official translation into English from accredited translators.
Personal Documents
- Passport bio page
- Passport photo
- Proof of identity, including a national ID or driver’s license
- Current CV/Resume
Qualifications
- final qualification/s or apprenticeship certificate/s or award/s
- a full academic transcript or other documents that include the start and end date of your training and details of the program of study.
- apprenticeship documents such as the contract of apprenticeship, journal or any other relevant document from your employer, governing body or training institution relating to your apprenticeship (if applicable).
Employments Evidence Documents
You are required to demonstrate 3 years of full-time (as 38 hours per week) or equivalent part-time paid employment. This employment must be directly relevant to your nominated occupation and can be completed before, during or after your comparable qualification.
- Statement of services letter
- Payslips
- Personal tax return
- Superannuation evidence
- Employment contract
Processing Time
Migration Skills Assessment applications are generally finalised within 120 days from the date you submit and pay for the application to Trades Recognition Australia. The time it takes to complete it is determined by how quickly Trades Recognition Australia receives all relevant documents and any additional information from you. Making sure you've provided all of the relevant papers in the proper format will help reduce the amount of time it takes to process them.
What will I get after the assessment?
When your application for a skills assessment is complete, Trades Recognition Australia, the assessing authority will provide a migration skills assessment outcome letter. You will need this letter to apply for your visa.
Application Fees
The table below summarises the fees that are charged by Trades Recognition Australia in compliance with it for the purpose of skill assessments for migration.
| Skills Assessment | Fee ($AUD) |
| Migration Skills Assessment (new application) | $795 |
| Migration Skills Assessment Review | $610 |
Skill Assessment Agency Services
Most of the evidence documentation required for your skills assessment is also required for your visa application. Ozlinks Education is an agency that can assist you in understanding and meeting the skill assessment criteria, giving you the best chance of a positive result. Click here to learn more about how our agency service can assist you.
Source from: tradesrecognitionaustralia.gov.au
