To help support vulnerable, older Australians, all CHSP service providers are responsible for ensuring staff and volunteers in direct care roles receive accredited first aid training and certification.
The department regards the cost of first aid training as a reasonable and necessary expense of safe and effective aged care service delivery. As such, CHSP providers should factor the cost of first aid training into their existing grant funding in the same way as rent, utilities, personal protective equipment and staff wages.
Direct care roles in which first aid training is mandatory include workers who have face to face interactions with clients delivering the following services:
- Allied Health and therapy Services
- Nursing
- Personal Care
- Social Support (Individual and Group)
- Transport
- Respite services
- Meals (where regular social support is provided)
- Other food services.
Workers across all other services are encouraged, but not required, to undertake first aid training.
