A FREE passport developed by education provider Ausmed to reduce staff training costs for aged care providers is rolling out across Australia, reported Pulse IT.
The digital certificate for the Australian aged care workforce is an onboarding tool that allows new staff to show providers the training modules they have completed, enabling them to avoid repeating training when moving between providers.
By reducing onboarding duplication, the tool may be able to reduce upfront employment costs by about $128 for each new starter.
The training solution aims to fast-track mandatory training and enable sector-wide standardisation of eight mandatory training areas.
Workers can carry it with them from one employer to the next to prove they have completed core training relevant to and recognised by the sector.
The tool was launched at the Aged and Community Care Providers Association conference in Oct last year with more than 50 aged-care providers from residential and home care signing up.
There are now more than 60 at various stages of rolling it out with more than 1,500 individual passport holders using the app.
According to Ausmed, the industry's high turnover can lead to a burden of onboarding costs with new employees.
The estimated spend on repeated mandatory training in the Australian aged-care sector was $8.02m in 2018.
This avoidable cost is expected to jump nearly 300% to almost $32m by 2030, Ausmed concluded.
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