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Certificate On Completion

Earn a Certificate upon completion

Aged Care, NDIS & Allied Health Workers

Suitable for carers, support workers, and allied health professionals

Bulk Enrolment & SCORM Support

We support bulk enrolments for organisations with 100s and even 1000s of team members

Saves Your Progress

Allows you to complete in bite sized modules

2 hours CPD

2 hours of Continuous Professional Development

Qualified Instructors

Experienced Physiotherapists

About the Manual Handling Training Course

Our online manual handling course is suitable for individuals and organisations in the aged care and disability sectors.

Our online course can be completed anywhere, on any device, and saves your progress.

This is particularly important for mobile workforces.

It allows training to be completed in the field between clients or in the event of appointment cancellations.

 

Individuals

Individuals that purchase our course tend to be:

  • Disability Support Workers supporting NDIS participants
  • Community Aged Care Support Workers supporting older adults
  • Allied Health Professionals
  • Informal carers such as family and friends

Individuals receive a certificate of completion automatically on completion of all modules and quizzes.

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Organisations 

Organisations that partner with us tend to be:

  • NDIS providers
  • Community Aged Care providers
  • Residential Aged Care providers
  • Hospitals
  • Allied Health providers

Organisations can enroll their team in two ways:

  • via our LMS (access to a compliance tool to monitor team member completions and activity)
  • via a SCORM package (for your current LMS)

Discounted rates apply for organisation bulk enrolments.

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Outcomes for Manual Handling Training

  • Decrease your risk of sustaining manual handling injuries
  • Increase your confidence with providing manual handling care
  • Increased safety for those that you are caring for
  • Develop a framework for approaching manual handling tasks
  • Identify specific techniques for use in manual handling tasks in the aged care and disability sector
  • Identify the most appropriate movement patterns for bending, leaning and reaching tasks

Skills You will gain

Injury PreventionManual Handling TechniquesPreventing Overuse Injuries Manual Handling CommunicationStand AidSlide SheetsSling LifterFloor Transfers

Manual Handling Training Syllabus

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Price
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Course Content

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A. Introduction
B. Bed Mobility
Rolling 1 Topic | 1 Quiz
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C. Transfers and Walking
D. Lifters
Stand Aid 1 Topic | 1 Quiz
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E. Car Transfers
F. Transfers from the floor
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Enrolment Options into the Online Manual Handling Training Course

Individual License

Individual License

Our training is suitable for:

  • Disability support workers
  • Aged Care support workers
  • Nurses
  • Allied Health professionals
  • Family caring for loved ones

If you are an individual, consider talking to your workplace about our Online Manual Handling Training course. See if they will fund the course for you or reimburse for your continuing professional development.

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Multiple Licenses

Organisation Enrolments

We partner with organisations such as:

  • Aged Care Providers
  • NDIS Providers
  • Allied Health Providers
  • Hospitals

You are able to enroll your team in two ways:

  • via our LMS
  • via a SCORM package (for your current LMS)

Please contact us for bulk license pricing.

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Our Manual Handling Instructors

Our online manual handling course is instructed by Emily Steel (B Physiotherapy):

  • Operations Manager (Community Therapy)
  • Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) Member

Emily is an experienced Physiotherapist who developed a passion for delivering manual handling training to carers supporting residents in residential aged care facilities.

Emily led the development of our manual handling training alongside a team of our experienced Physiotherapists who came together to create and film the training.

Anyone that has the pleasure to work alongside Emily is truly blessed as she is always as happy and approachable as in the picture that you see of her!

Outside of work, Emily spends time with her beautiful family and has a passion for leading an active lifestyle.

Manual Handling Training Video Module Example

It is always important to try before you buy so we have enabled access to one of our videos.

The following video details the safe manual handling practices around supporting someone to roll in bed.

Online Manual Handling Training Certification

On completion of our course, you will receive a certificate of completion.

We are able to provide organisations that bulk enroll their team with compliance reports for their mandatory training records.

FAQs about the Manual Handling Training Course

  • Is this course suitable for disability support workers?

    Yes, our online manual handling course is suitable for disability support workers and NDIS providers.

    Our manual handling course covers a range of tasks, such as hoists, which you will find in our syllabus.

  • Is this course suitable for aged care workers?

    Yes, our online manual handling course is suitable for aged care workers.

    It is suitable for people working in residential aged care and community aged care.

    Our manual handling course covers a range of tasks, such as hoists, which you will find in our syllabus.

  • Is this suitable for NDIS providers?

    Yes, we partner with many NDIS providers around Australia from small organisations to enterprise level.

    There is no limit to the amount of staff that we can enrol with our system.

    Organisations also have access to our compliance reporting tool to monitor completions and activity.

    You can enquire for bulk license pricing.

  • How do I know if my employer will accept a Manual Handling certificate from Community Therapy?

    Each organisation is responsible for meeting the training needs of their organisation and any industry mandatory standards.

    Online training is a mainstream method of meeting mandatory training needs now.

    We partner with aged care and NDIS providers with our online manual handling training course and have experienced no issues with the acceptance of our certificate or course.

  • Is this suitable for Aged Care providers?

    Yes, we partner with many Aged Care providers around Australia from small organisations to enterprise level.

    There is no limit to the amount of aged care staff that we can enrol with our system.

    Organisations also have access to our compliance reporting tool to monitor completions and activity.

    You can enquire for bulk license pricing.

  • Do you provide additional manual handling services?

    Yes, we support organisations with consultancy to review:

    • manual handling policy and procedure
    • manual handling safe work method statements
    • manual handling charts
    • manual handling risk management
  • How long is my certificate valid for?

    Your certificate expires 365 days after completion.

  • I'd like to sign up my organisation. How does this work?

    Please contact us with your request and we will provide a bulk-license quote.

    We organise bulk enrolment of your team, all we require is a spreadsheet of your staff’s names and emails.

    Staff are then granted access to our training.

    We are able to grant access to compliance reports for your mandatory training reporting needs.

  • Do you support SCORM?

    Yes, we can provide SCORM packages for you to use in your current LMS. We offer annual subscriptions and a discount for upfront payments.