Barista Skill Set - Wheatbelt
Elevate your coffee-making skills with our Barista Skill Set course
Join us to master the art of coffee preparation and boost your career in hospitality!
Overview
Campus Northam
When Semester 2, 2025
Study Mode On campus
Duration 4 Days
This skill set reflects the foundational and practical skills required to maintain food safety in a hospitality environment and prepare espresso coffee using commercial equipment.
The program includes two nationally recognised units:
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SITXFSA005 – Use hygienic practices for food safety This unit covers essential knowledge and skills to ensure food safety through personal hygiene, safe food handling practices, and the ability to identify and report food hazards. It is a mandatory pre-requisite and will be delivered first to ensure learners understand and apply hygiene standards before undertaking any practical coffee preparation.
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SITHFAB025 – Prepare and serve espresso coffee This unit focuses on advising customers, selecting and grinding coffee beans, extracting espresso, and maintaining commercial machines and grinders. Complex repairs remain the responsibility of qualified technicians.
The program is delivered onsite over four days, with SITXFSA005 scheduled on Day 1. Observations SITXFSA005 are scheduled to continue on the morning of Day 2. The remaining three days are dedicated to espresso coffee training.
Training is conducted in a simulated café environment and includes demonstrations, guided practice, and practical performance assessments.
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Semester 2, 2025
Details
Units and fees
Elective
| National ID Unit title | General fee | Concession | Resource fee |
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$64.80 | $19.20 | $51.13 |
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$24.30 | $7.20 | $28.93 |
Please note: Course information and fees are subject to change without notice.
- Fees may differ between campus locations due to the difference between elective units in the course study plan or a need to adapt courses to meet local industry needs.
- Fees may also differ for individuals depending on units of study selected, prior qualifications and recognition of prior learning (RPL).
- Fees are payable at the time of enrolment.
- Total fees quoted include tuition fees and resource fees only. You may also be required to purchase text books, uniforms or other personal equipment that are not included in this fee estimate.
- For Lower Fees, Local Skills (half-price) courses please refer to additional eligibility information above.
- Concession rates: If eligible, proof of concession must be presented.
- Concessions and the secondary school age fee cap do not apply to commercial courses (short courses), or Foundation Programs (i.e ESL and General Education).
- Secondary school aged persons (in 2025, students born on or after 1 July 2007 who are at least 15 years old in 2025) undertaking training that is not part of a VET Delivered to Secondary Schools program, the maximum course (tuition) fee chargeable is $420. Additional resource fees and discretionary fees may apply.
- VET Student Loans for eligible courses and fee caps may be subject to changes implemented by the Australian Government.
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