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Online Training for Disability Support Workers: A Quick Guide to Disability Essentials
Disability Essentials is an NDIS-mapped online training library covering everything disability support workers need. From workplace fundamentals to positive behaviour support, it's a training library for new starters and experienced staff alike.
Disability Essentials is a comprehensive training library built to meet the compliance requirements of disability support providers. Developed by a panel of experts with over 122 years of combined experience and mapped to the NDIS Practice Standards, you can be confident the training you deliver supports your compliance obligations.
The library covers what disability support workers, frontline staff, and team leaders need to work safely, ethically, and with confidence. Topics include workplace fundamentals, health and safety, infection prevention, and emergency preparedness, alongside the person-centred practices specific to disability work: human rights, supported decision making, positive behaviour support, restrictive practices, manual handling, and mealtime management.
Several courses include refresher training (Checkpoints), so the library suits both new starters working through initial onboarding and experienced staff maintaining their compliance and practice. With the right training, workers are better equipped to support people with disabilities to live with greater independence, dignity, and quality of life.
Here are 8 benefits of Disability Essentials:
- Online training mapped to NDIS Practice Standards
Our training is mapped to the NDIS Practice Standards to help disability support providers meet mandatory benchmarks to ensure safe, high-quality service delivery. This library gives every worker a full learning pathway, so they can be fully prepared for the realities of the role and confident that there are no gaps in their knowledge.
Explore our full course library of NDIS training courses, including:
- NDIS Core Module 1: Rights and Responsibilities for Participants
- Bullying Prevention Support Workers
- Supported Decision-Making
- NDIS Core Module 2: Provider Governance and Operational Management
- Handling Incidents
- Person-Centred Emergency and Disaster Management
- NDIS Core Module 3: Provisions of Support
- Support Plan Made Clear
- Understanding Restrictive Practices
- NDIS Core Module 4: Provision of Supports Environment
- Supporting Safe Mealtimes
- The First Line of Defence: Hand Hygiene Essentials
- Built by experts in the disability sector
Train with confidence using content that's current and built by sector experts.
Developed by Learning and Development Managers, Heads of Clinical Practice, Disability Support Workers and sector specialists with over 122+ years of combined on-the-ground experience. Every course reflects the real situations support workers face every day.
- Built-in knowledge checks
Knowledge checks and quizzes run throughout every course, so you can see your support workers are engaging with the training and remembering what matters for their role.
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- Accessible eLearning experience for every learner
Great training isn’t just about what you deliver; it’s about how the learners experience it. All of our online modules are designed to keep support workers engaged, confident and are easily accessible.
Every course includes:
- Professional narration on every slide
- Not everyone learns best from reading content, that's why we have developed engaging narration so your team can choose to listen or read.
- Engaging video content
- Real scenarios, expert insights and practical demonstrations that bring the material to life
- Designed for all abilities
- Built to WCAG 2.1 Level AA standards, so every learner can access training in a way that works for them.
- A complete learning pathway for disability support workers
An end-to-end eLearning journey for every stage, from new starters all the way to experienced support workers. Disability Essentials covers the core fundamentals right through to the more complex and nuanced areas of care. Helping disability support providers lift capability across the entire organisation.
- Bite-sized training for busy disability support workers
Need a quick boost? Disability Essentials Bites are short, sharp modules designed to top up your knowledge, anytime, anywhere.
Boost your skills within 5 minutes with courses like:
- Infection Prevention and Control Essential Bite
- Understanding Reportable Incidents Bite
- Repositioning up the Bed Bite
- Consent, Privacy and Communication within Medication Bite
- Understanding Chemical Restraint Bite
- How to Respond to Abuse Bite
- Checkpoints
Checkpoints confirm each learner has grasped the content before they move on. Anyone who passes stays on the floor and keeps supporting their participants, while anyone who falls short goes back through the training until they are competent. That means only the people who need more support step away to learn, and everyone who is ready keeps doing their job.
- Resource Hub
The Resource Hub is a space that brings together all the video content from your courses, so you can use it directly in your in-person training sessions.
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Alongside Disability Essentials, you can have the option to discover an intuitive Learning Management System built to simplify training and boost performance. Manage, deliver and track learning all from one easy-to-use platform.
Want to see Disability Essentials in action? Click here to book a demo or browse the full library.
