NDIS Practice Standards
Module 5A: Assistance with supported independent living
m5a-3.5 SIL supported decision-making: worker training and refreshers
Clause and reference m5a-3.5, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Relevant workers are trained, with refresher training, in supported decision-making, including how to build the participant's ability to make decisions about supports in their home and daily life and to understand the impact of those decisions.
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 register showing supported decision-making training and refresher dates for SIL workers
- Training content or learning outcomes covering capacity building for decision-making
- Supervision notes discussing workers' application of supported decision-making
What assessors commonly find
- Training given at induction only with no refresher
- Casual and agency workers not trained
What evidence do I need?
For m5a-3.5 SIL supported decision-making: worker training and refreshers, the evidence to bring is: Training register showing supported decision-making training and refresher dates for SIL workers. It sits under Module 5A: Assistance with supported independent living and our reference for it is m5a-3.5. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me training register showing supported decision-making training and refresher dates for SIL workers, 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