INDIGENOUS AGED CARE INDUCTION PROGRAM - BUDDY GUIDE
Aged Care Indigenous Induction Program (ACIIP) – Buddy Induction Guide
- Provides guidance to those supervising induction for Indigenous aged care workers ‘Buddies’ in the workplace or to new employees to support their own induction with additional information under some direction
- Explains how a Buddy can be a coordinator or manager or a more experienced worker who can establish a relationship with the new worker and be their ‘go to’ person when they need assistance.
- Is primarily targeted at Indigenous workers in community care settings to introduce the concepts associated with contemporary community care and workplace expectations
- Introduces new workers to the work and the workplace but does not replace or support nationally accredited qualifications or the in-house organisational workplace induction
- Provides a lead into further training and complements organisational workplace induction: and
- Is split into two sections; – the first section provides notes and guidance to a Buddy helping a new worker through induction ; and – the second is a self-paced guide for a new worker to work through the topics themselves with some limited supervision.
