NDIS Practice Standards
Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities
m1-3.3 Complex bowel care: participant-specific training to the skills descriptor
Clause and reference m1-3.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Every worker supporting a participant with complex bowel care is trained in that participant's needs, their type of bowel care and the high intensity support skills descriptor for complex bowel care, by an appropriately qualified health practitioner or a person who meets that descriptor.
Our wording of the requirement: our statement of what the clause asks, not the instrument verbatim. Source: NDIS Practice Standards on the compliance desk.
The evidence to bring
- Training records naming the participant and type of bowel care, signed by the trainer
- Trainer qualifications or evidence the trainer meets the skills descriptor
- Competency assessments mapped to the complex bowel care skills and knowledge list
- Annual competency review schedule
What assessors commonly find
- Training generic and not specific to the participant
- Trainer's qualification or skills not documented
What evidence do I need?
For m1-3.3 Complex bowel care: participant-specific training to the skills descriptor, the evidence to bring is: Training records naming the participant and type of bowel care, signed by the trainer; Trainer qualifications or evidence the trainer meets the skills descriptor. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me training records naming the participant and type of bowel care, signed by the trainer, and tell me who owns it and when it was last reviewed.
That is the question a quality assessor opens with for this requirement. Have the record on the desk and the date it was last reviewed to hand.
Read your own evidence against this clause
Paste your policy or evidence pack and the reading marks, line by line, whether a phrase from this requirement appears and quotes your own words when it does. It is a reading of your text, not a compliance result; a quality assessor decides whether a requirement is met. Read your pack, free See the paid reading