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The New Quality Manager and Officer

A hand writes with a pen in a notebook. Other papers are spread around the table
Location: National (online)
Date: 13/08/2024

Please note: Expressions of Interest (EOI) for this event can be given via the contact information box at the bottom of the webpage.

This workshop program is designed for those new to the quality officer and quality manager role, or appointed to the role recently, helping you quickly get up to speed in your role. It is also designed to support those with previous experience as a quality practitioner in other sectors get up to speed with disability sector requirements.

It helps address the following NDIS Workforce Capabilities, to the extent that they are relevant to your role: 

  • Establish and embed NDIS values in organisational culture and practice
  • Build consistent, good practice
  • Establish systems to support health and manage risk
  • Establish a learning culture to support workforce capability

Workshop content includes:

1. Appreciate the vital role you play
2. Identify the needs of key stakeholders
3. Understand rights, and responsibilities
4. Balance purpose and systems: creating the conditions for people to do well
5. Understand the NDIS quality and safeguarding system, and other relevant quality frameworks
6. Maximise the benefit of each component of your quality management system
7. Understand key risks in your organisation
8. Use key processes to help improve quality and safeguarding
9. Build your knowledge across time
10. Know how to work productively with regulators and external quality auditors, and
11. Examine how IT systems can assist in quality and safeguarding

The program consists of: 

  • Pre-reading 
  • A total of eight hours training, over two (2) days

This workshop is in partnership with Purpose at Work, and facilitated by Alan Hough and Alex Carbonetti. Alan Hough, PhD, is a consultant in practice governance and co-editor of Disability practice: Safeguarding quality service delivery. Alex Carbonetti is a consultant in quality and safeguarding and is an NDIS auditor.

Who should attend?

New Quality Managers, and new Quality Officers. 

Event details

DateTimeLocation
Tuesday 13 August

11:00 am to 4:00 pm AEST;

Sessions are held 11:00 am to 1:00 pm,and 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm AEST

Online
Tuesday 27 August

11:00 am to 4:00 pm AEST;

Sessions are held 11:00 am to 1:00 pm,and 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm AEST

Online

How to register

Expressions of Interest (EOI) for this event can be given via the contact information box at the bottom of the webpage.

Cost

  • NDS Member: $750 plus GST
  • Non-member: $966 plus GST 
Contact information

For any enquiries, please contact Learn and Develop Team, submit enquiry/feedback, show phone number