Support Business documentation

The following documentation is a guide for participants using businesses for support workers. The following are recommended:

Documentation for the following:

• Business registration & ABN
• Covid Safe Business Plan COVID-19 Safety Plans | NSW Government
• Business insurance: Professional Indemnity and Public Liability 
• 100 points of ID NDIS Practice Standards (ndiscommission.gov.au)
• AHPRA registration if applicable
• Senior first aid certificate
• CPR certificate
• National Police check certificate https://policecheck.auspost.com.au/
• NSW Working With Children Check certificate Apply for a Working With Children Check
• NDIS worker screening check Worker screening requirements | NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (ndiscommission.gov.au) pg 4. 
• Influenza vaccination history consistent with latest respiratory inbfection advice
  • Advice to home care service providers - COVID-19 (Coronavirus) (nsw.gov.au)
• COVID-19 vaccination history consistent with latest advice
  • Advice to home care service providers - COVID-19 (Coronavirus) (nsw.gov.au)

The following training is required for businesses:

*Please note that even if participants are not children it is likely that business staff will carry out work where children are.

• Infection Prevention and Control - Orientation Module -Infection prevention and control – orientation module | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
• Infection Prevention and Control Advanced Education Modules Infection prevention and control - advanced education modules | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
• Hand Hygiene National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI) Learning Management System (LMS) learner access | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
• SAFESpace eLearning - Keeping children safe in organisations in disability sector eLearning - NSW Office of the Children's Guardian
• New Worker NDIS induction Module NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (ndiscommission.gov.au)
  
  

Training in the following is required for working with people with disabilities:

• Manual Handling Training
  • Manual Handling Skills for Home and Community Workers — Healthcare Australia Online Learning
• Use of transfer equipment
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• Medication Management
  • HLTHPS006 - examples below 
    • Assist Clients with Medication - Online - HLTHPS006 - Transformational Institute
    • HLTHPS006 Assist clients with medication - EMS Education & Training

• Community and Home Care (Bundle) — Healthcare Australia Online Learning

The following education or equivalent and required for your business providing services to people with Spinal Cord Injuries. 

• Spinal Cord Injury Bundle: SCI Course + SCI Bowel Therapy Course https://addonskills.thinkific.com/bundles/spinal-cord-injury-bundle-sci-course-sci-bowel-therapy-course
• Skin & Pressure Area Care for Support Workers
  • https://addonskills.thinkific.com/courses/skin-pressure-area-care-for-support-workers
  • Preventing and Managing Pressure Injuries — Healthcare Australia Online Learning
• Autonomic Dysreflexia
  • Treatment of autonomic dysreflexia for adults and adolescents with spinal cord injuries | Agency for Clinical Innovation
    • Please watch videos and confirm with the participant in writing that you have watched the videos
• Bowel and Bladder care
  • Working Confidently with Urinary Catheters (DS) — Healthcare Australia Online Learning
• Mental Health
  • Supporting a Person with a Mental Health Condition (DS) — Healthcare Australia Online Learning