Carer & Staff Training

Training delivered in the home, on the actual equipment, with the actual people who’ll be using it.

Provider services Manual handling Hoist training In situ

We train families, carers and paid support workers in the practical skills their role requires — safe transfers and manual handling, using hoists and equipment correctly, pressure care, and following a care plan properly. Training happens in the participant’s own home or facility, on the equipment that’s actually there, rather than in a generic classroom session.

Who this is for

  • Support providers onboarding staff to a new participant

  • Group homes and supported accommodation with a change in resident needs

  • Families who’ve been doing transfers for years without ever being shown how

  • Teams who’ve just received new equipment nobody has been trained on

  • Aged care services wanting practical, targeted upskilling for care staff

What you end up with

  • Practical hands-on training in the real setting
  • Written materials the team can refer back to
  • Attendance and content documentation for compliance
  • Follow-up review sessions where they’re useful

What’s involved

Step 1

Scoping

What the team needs to know, what equipment is involved, how many people, and whether it’s participant-specific or general.

Step 2

Session design

Built around your care plan and your equipment, not a generic curriculum.

Step 3

Delivery

Hands-on, in the home or facility. People practise; they don’t just watch.

Step 4

Documentation

A written record of who attended and what was covered, for your compliance file.

How it’s funded

For NDIS participants, training linked to a specific person’s support needs is generally funded from Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living. Where a provider organisation is commissioning training for its team, we invoice the organisation directly. We’re happy to quote for a package covering assessment, care plan and training together.

Full funding guide →

Why we do this in your home

Training on a demonstration hoist in a training room doesn’t transfer to the sling, the bed height and the doorway a worker faces on Monday morning.

Doing it in situ also lets us pick up problems nobody had reported — a sling in the wrong size, a bed that won’t raise, a transfer everyone had quietly agreed to do the risky way.

Common questions

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Talk to us about carer & staff training

Tell us what’s going on and we’ll tell you whether this is the right service, what it will involve, and when we could get to you.