Who is Disability Essentials designed for?

Disability Essentials is designed for disability support providers of any size, from small teams to national organisations. The library suits new starters who need foundational training, experienced support workers refreshing their skills, and team leaders responsible for the people they manage.

Can staff complete training on mobile or tablet?

Yes. Every online course in the training library is built to work on phones, tablets, and desktops, so staff can continue and complete their training, anywhere and everywhere. Progress saves automatically, so they can pick up where they left off on whichever device suits them.

How do staff access the training?

Your team can access the library through an etrainu platform like Learn or Activate. When they log in, staff see their assigned courses, track their progress, and pick up their credentials as they finish. Managers get a single view of who's completed what, what's in progress, and what's coming up for renewal. Prefer to use your own system? You can take the courses as SCORM files and run them in your existing LMS.

NDIS training for disability support providers

Q: What is Disability Essentials?

Disability Essentials is an online training library for disability support providers. It covers the core skills and knowledge that support workers, frontline staff, and team leaders need to do their jobs safely and well. Every course is mapped to the NDIS Practice Standards, built by sector experts, and reviewed by auditors, so providers can be confident they are using the right training library to deliver better care.

Better care starts with better disability support training.

Disability Essentials gives providers one place to train support workers, track every completion, and demonstrate compliance with the NDIS Practice Standards.

Building exceptional communities through education

What is Disability Essentials?

Disability Essentials is etrainu’s library of online courses for NDIS providers, covering every role from support workers and team leaders to managers and board members. Its 50 courses are mapped to all four NDIS Core Modules, and staff can take them in any order, starting with what matters most for their role.

It also includes five-minute Bites (micro-learning courses), Checkpoints and a Resource Hub for team meetings and in-person training sessions.

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Core Module 1: Rights and Responsibilities

NDIS Induction, Abuse Safeguarding, Person-Centred Active Support, Trauma-Informed Support, Supported Decision-Making and 8 more.

Core Module 2: Provider Governance and Operational Management

NDIS Audit Readiness for Leaders, Handling Incidents, Writing Progress Notes and Keeping Records, Safeguarding Oversight for board members and 10 more.

Core Module 3: Provider Governance and Operational Management

Positive Behaviour Support in Practice, Understanding Restrictive Practices, Support Plans Made Clear, Understanding Support Coordination.

Core Module 4: Provision of Supports

Five Manual Handling courses, Medication Basics, Assisting with Medication, Infection Prevention and Control, Supporting Safe Mealtimes and 9 more.

How does etrainu keep staff compliant after induction?

✓ Expiry reminders and automatic re-enrolment
✓ Course status report ready for your auditor
✓ Role-based Playlists for new starters
✓ Employment Hero integration
✓ A dedicated Customer Success Manager on Activate

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Walk into your next audit with confidence

Disability Essentials trains your support workers to deliver high-quality care, then gives you the proof.

Every course maps to the NDIS Practice Standards, Quality Indicators, and Workforce Capability Framework, so the link between training and compliance is already made for you.

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Learning that fits around the shift: Bites, Checkpoints & Resource Hubs

Bites deliver quick lessons between tasks, Checkpoints pinpoint your team's knowledge gaps and plug them, and Resource Hubs bring the video content from the Library together for in-person training.

"I've worked closely with etrainu for 4 years now and they've become the main online training provider for our disability support staff. I cannot be happier with the high-quality training provided (we always receive amazing feedback from staff about how thorough and professional the training is), as well as the customised and user-friendly LMS. Internal support has always been top-notch as well, thank you for doing great work!"

Ieva Kvietkauskaite

Assistant Manager – People & Culture at Care1

"The auditors had NO questions about the quality or content of your courses after they heard we utilise your services for staff training. They mentioned that they knew etrainu and told us that your training is of the highest standard and very well respected in the industry. This was the easiest part of my audit."

Francois Grobler

Learning and Development Coordinator at Healthscope

“We’ve built a great relationship and trusting partnership with etrainu, and they’re always open to feedback and quick to make any changes or updates where required.”

Heather Hollingworth

CEO at Better Care Delivered

"etrainu gave us the platform of a customised LMS that allowed us to provide an online learning environment that looked like—and felt like—Living Communities."

Ben Bullivant

Founder of Living Communities

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Training bundle

Build a package and save

Bundle our most popular disability libraries and save. Pick Disability Core for the essentials, or Disability Pro for our most comprehensive package.

Disability Core
The Essentials every provider needs

Disability Essentials
Complex Care Essentials

Disability Pro
Our most comprehensive disability solution

Disability Essentials
Complex Care Essentials
Mental Health eLibrary
Autism eLibrary
Activate LMS
AI Course Authoring (1 seat)

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Frequently asked questions

What is Disability Essentials?

Disability Essentials is an online course library from etrainu for NDIS providers and their support workers in Australia. It includes 50 video-led courses mapped to all four NDIS Core Modules, delivered through the etrainu learning management system or your own LMS.

What online courses do NDIS support workers need?

Support workers need the free NDIS Worker Orientation Module, then courses that cover the NDIS Code of Conduct and the Core Modules relevant to their role, such as safeguarding, incident management, manual handling, infection control and medication support. Disability Essentials covers all of these.

How do I show my auditor that staff have completed their training?

Export the course status report. It lists each worker, their completed courses, completion dates and how long they spent on the course. Every course also issues a certificate.

How much do NDIS online courses for a team cost with etrainu?

It depends on how many staff you train and how you deliver the courses. The etrainu Learn platform is included free with your Disability Essentials licence. Chat to our team for a price.

Why pay for NDIS online courses when the Worker Orientation Module is free?

The free module is a starting point. Providers also need training across all four Core Modules, completion records for audit, and refreshers when training expires.

Is Disability Essentials mapped to the NDIS Practice Standards?

Yes. Every course is mapped to a Core Module and its Quality Indicators, and to the Workforce Objectives and Core Capabilities in the NDIS Workforce Capability Framework.

See the full course list. Download the brochure.

Get the complete Disability Essentials course list and see how each course maps to the NDIS Practice Standards.

✓ Every course in the library, in one place

✓ Mapped to the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators

✓ Easy to share with your manager or team

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