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    17/07/2024

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    18/09/2024

    Minister sets the stage for regulatory reform

    Minister Shorten has announced the first changes to provider regulation.
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  • Resources
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    Resources

    Good Practice Guides - Disability Employment

    NDS has produced a series of good practice guides for members that provide comprehensive instructions for employers cover NDIS Employment Supports, Classifying Employees and Supported Wage System under...
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    Western Australia Disability Support Awards - 2024 Nominees

    Congratulations to our 2024 Western Australia Disability Support Awards nominees! Visit the Western Australian Disability Support Awards page for information about the upcoming awards.
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    NDIS Review: Final Report Webcast

    Breakdown of the recommendations and actions from the NDS Review, focusing on key areas of the NDIS.
  • Events & Training
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    eLearning

    Good Working Relations for Managers and Supervisors

    Location: National (Online)
    Event start date: 1/01/2028
    This course is designed to provide managers, supervisors and team leaders with an understanding about workplace bullying and harassment and how to prevent and manage these issues.
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    Office version of Infection, Prevention and Control

    Location: National (online)
    Event start date: 1/01/2028
    This course is essential for office employees in care-sector settings, including both head office and back-office roles. It equips them with the knowledge to follow safe work practices and effectively...
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    eLearning

    Fire, Security and Emergency Response

    Location: National (online)
    Event start date: 31/12/2099
    This e-Learning course covers the requirements under WHS Regulation 2011 and contains important knowledge for every organisation.
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Latest Events

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Office version of Infection, Prevention and Control

Event start date: 1/01/2028
This course is essential for office employees in care-sector settings, including both head office and back-office roles. It equips them with the knowledge to follow safe work practices and effectively...

Business excellence beyond NDIS transition

Event start date: 31/12/2099
Available now, self-paced: Four eLearning modules have been developed with funding from the Victorian Government to support business excellence beyond the NDIS transition. 

Communicating for Safety: Recognising and Communicating Change

Event start date: 31/12/2099
Available now - scheduled by arrangement:Understand confidently how to recognise and communicate any changes in the people you support.

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Disability at Work Conference 2024

Event start date: 23/07/2024
National Disability Services (NDS) calls on employment service providers and other professional employment specialists, to help shape and drive the program for NDS's Disability at Work Conference.

Right on Board – Practice Governance for Disability Service Providers: Governing and Managing for Human Rights, Quality and Safeguarding - Online Series

Event start date: 1/08/2024
Right on Board answers the need as highlighted by the Disability Royal Commission for greater awareness of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

National Quality and Safeguarding Community of Practice

Event start date: 13/08/2024
NDS invites members to join the National Quality and Safeguarding CoP, a peer-led forum covering all areas of providing quality safe services for people with a disability.

Implementing Defensible Documentation for Staff leaders and Quality Teams

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Location: National (online)
Date: 31/12/2099

Available now - secure your booking for 2024.

This workshop is in partnership with and facilitated by Preventing Harm Initiative (PHI).

This essential course will show you ways to support staff and provide feedback to improve documentation and provide evidence that quality care is being delivered.

Instructor Led Training (ILT) via Zoom or face-to-face at your organisation (travel charged at cost).

Duration: Three hours

Course outcomes:

  • Learn the four things that make documentation defensible and improve outcomes for people receiving services
  • Know how to support staff to use factual, respectful and accurate words in their documentation
  • Discover ways to help staff write clearly and concisely
  • Gain practice in putting these skills into action using case scenarios and identifying improvement opportunities
  • Receive a Quick Reference Guide (QRG) to support ongoing implementation, feedback and auditing
  • Recommended system to assist implementation

This workshop is in partnership with Preventing Harm Initiative (PHI) and facilitated by Donny Raets.

Donny holds a Diploma of Teaching, Cert IV Training and Assessment, Cert IV Aged and Community Care and has 30 plus years’ experience in education, ranging from Primary through to Tertiary (Vocational Education and Training), remote Indigenous Communities and the Corporate sector.

Her CALD background and training in the Arts support her creation and delivery of meaningful learning experiences.

Who should attend?

NDS recommends that Supervisors, Managers, Quality Team staff and Learning and Development staff within disability service organisations are most suited to attend.

Cost

  • Member Price: $2300 plus GST
  • Non-member Price: $3070 plus GST

Additional participants will be charged $65 plus GST per-person price.

Contact information

For any enquiries, please contact Learn and Develop, Learn and Develop Team, learnanddevelop@nds.org.au, 03 8341 4307