Buddy Programs - Self-paced e-Learning with live online training

E-Learning: Self-Paced (approx 30-minutes) - this must be completed by 10/09

Online Live Training: Wednesday 10 September 2025

Time: 10.30am to 11.30am SA, NT | 11.00am to 12.00pm VIC, NSW, ACT, TAS, QLD | 9.00am to 10.00am WA

Audience: Managers, People and Culture/Learning Development Staff in Aged Care and/or Disability services

Presenter: Preventing Harm Initiative

How successful are your buddy shifts? Do they set staff up to succeed?

This course will guide organisations to set up a program to use buddy shifts to successfully

orientate care and support staff, improve the experience of the people they support, and retain staff.

Part 1: e-Learning - Self-paced online module (approx 30 minutes)

• Completion of this module is to ensure attendees have foundational knowledge on

• Understand the role and responsibility of staff who are buddies, including their scope of practice and role boundaries

• Being aware of health and safety risks and understand the importance of policies and procedures

• Orientating the new staff member to use a person’s care and support plan and documentation requirements

• Providing support, preparing for, and completing a buddy shift

Part 2: Instructor Led Training via Zoom

This interactive workshop will help transform the knowledge gained from Part 1 into useable skills.

Translate knowledge into practice, receive feedback, build and consolidate skills. 

• Learn a step-by-step process for selecting and preparing staff to be buddies

• Gaining consent from people receiving services

• See how a buddy program can support and provide evidence of Quality Standard compliance

• Be able to evaluate buddy shifts to support continuous improvement

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

By ordering tickets, you as the buyer and the ticket holders agree to:

• Registration is one ticket per participant and all participants are required to access training on individual devices.

• Not circulate or distribute the weblink or resources to any person or organisation who is not a registered attendee (you will receive an invoice for the extra attendee/s)

• Not show the event in a group setting where unregistered attendees are present (you will either receive an invoice for the extra attendees or be removed and no refund given)

• Not make any recordings or capture the video or audio in any capacity

ACIA reserve the right to:

• Remove unauthorised participants from a session if no response is received by the unauthorised attendee within 10 minutes (by Zoom chat).

• Request all participants to turn on their camera

By purchasing tickets you agree to ACIA sending training updates to you.

Notification of cancellation or transfer of registration must be by email to enquiry@acia.asn.au. No refund is available for any cancellations received five working days or less prior to the start date, however a substitute delegate is welcome. Please notify ACIA of any substitution as soon as possible. No refund or transfer will be given for non-attendance.

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