Have you updated your availability for this week? If you haven’t please do so ASAP. Also remember to advise us if you are working elsewhere at the moment as we will need to update these details on your file if you have not already advised us. This can affect where you are offered work if you are working at a site/group we currently service.
How can you update your availability?
- Website
- App
- Text 0458540101
- Email admin@firstcallhealth.com.au
You amend your availability the same way you place it so please ensure that if you are down as available and something does change and you can no longer work please ensure you are amending this ASAP.
COVID Training & Infection Control Training
If you are yet to complete the COVID safe training please ensure you contact us ASAP on education@firstcallhealth.com.au. It is imperative that this training is completed ASAP as these make up part of the mandatory competencies to be completed annually. It covers a number of different topics as follows:
- Personal Safety
- Families & Visitors
- Residential Care Facilities
- In Home Care
- COVID-19 & Aged Care
- Personal Protective Equipment PPE
- Laundry
- If you suspect a case of COVID-19
The links can be sent to you immediately to complete these so please ensure that if you have not already completed these that you make contact right away. If you have completed any type of training anywhere else can you please send evidence of this also to education@firstcallhealth.com.au
Additional Education & Training
Ongoing education is so important and at First Call Health we want to ensure that every staff member has the best options available to them when it comes to courses available. First Call Health are offering a number of online education courses. Not just mandatory ongoing education but a number of other training courses which are very affordable and could be of interest to all as well as relevant to other areas of work you may be in or pursuing at the moment. The following courses can be made available for you, please contact education@firstcallhealth.com.au for information around how to access these and the cost:
- Administration of Medication for Carers & Support Staff
- Aged Care Quality Standards
- Care Planning
- Caring for a Person with a Tracheostomy
- Dementia Awareness
- Diabetes Management
- Epilepsy Awareness
- Equality & Diversity
- Gastrostomy (PEG) Feeding
- NDIS – Worker Orientation Module
- Nutrition in the Person with Complex Needs
- Paediatric BLS
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Personality Disorders
- Record Keeping
- Tissue Viability and Woundcare Management
- Urinary Catheterisation
Further to the above online courses, we are in the process of putting together a calendar of events which cover courses available to ALL areas where we have staff geographically. So we will not be expecting you to travel to Geelong if you live in Dandenong to do a first aid course.
These organisations are reputable and affordable and we believe will be well worth booking in to do your course. We can organise to do this for you as well if that is something you require.
We will also be offering practical courses for several mandatory competencies and non-mandatory competencies through educators at venues organised by First Call Health. A calendar of when/where these will be made available will be sent to everyone shortly dependent on venue availability.
