Nationally accredited unit of competency
First aid course for aged care and disability workers
HLTAID011 Provide First Aid, delivered for the people who work in residential aged care, home care, SIL and community disability support. One day, CPR included, with extra time on the emergencies that actually happen in care settings.
$165
per person
1 day
5–6 hrs face to face
CPR
HLTAID009 included
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Aged care and disability support workers in Australia are almost always asked for HLTAID011 Provide First Aid. ANATE delivers it at its Revesby centre in Sydney for $165: a short online component, then five to six hours face to face in a single day. The CPR unit is included, and you receive a nationally recognised Statement of Attainment through our partner RTO, ETEA (RTO 5089).
It is the same accredited unit anyone else would sit. What is different here is the room: sessions with care sector participants spend their time on choking, falls, seizures, and recognising a client who is going downhill, because those are the calls these workers actually make.
Training a team? Group bookings for facilities and providers are arranged around your roster. Jump to team bookings.
It is the same accredited unit anyone else would sit. What is different here is the room: sessions with care sector participants spend their time on choking, falls, seizures, and recognising a client who is going downhill, because those are the calls these workers actually make.
Training a team? Group bookings for facilities and providers are arranged around your roster. Jump to team bookings.
Last updated: 6 November 2026. Course content is delivered through our partner RTO, ETEA (RTO 5089).
Is first aid actually required in aged care and disability work?
Short answer: there is no single unit code written into law that every aged care or disability worker must hold. Any provider who tells you otherwise is overselling.
What exists instead is a chain of obligations that lands on your employer, and lands on you through them. That is why the job ad asks for it even though no statute names it.
What exists instead is a chain of obligations that lands on your employer, and lands on you through them. That is why the job ad asks for it even though no statute names it.
Why this page says that plainly: most training providers imply first aid is legally mandatory in these sectors because it sells courses. It is not. It is employer-required, for reasons that are real and worth understanding before you book.
Aged care: what the Standards expect
The strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards were introduced under the Aged Care Act 2024, which now applies alongside the Aged Care Rules 2025. There are seven standards, and two of them put first aid capability squarely on the provider.
Standard 5 — Clinical Care
Covers the safety of clinical care services. A service that cannot respond to a collapse, a choking episode or a sudden deterioration is not meeting it.
Standard 6 — Food and Nutrition
Choking sits here as well as in clinical care, because in residential aged care it is a mealtime risk, not a rare accident.
The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has written to residential services specifically about managing choking risk, and advises maintaining first aid capability around the clock, not only during day shift. That is the sentence behind most aged care rostering policies on first aid.
None of this names a unit code. In practice the sector has settled on HLTAID011, because it is the national first aid unit and it includes CPR.
None of this names a unit code. In practice the sector has settled on HLTAID011, because it is the national first aid unit and it includes CPR.
Who in aged care is usually asked for it
Personal care assistants
Assistants in nursing
Home care and support at home workers
Residential care staff
Lifestyle and activities officers
Kitchen and hospitality staff
Care managers and team leaders
Kitchen staff appear on that list for a reason. In a residential service the person closest to a choking resident at mealtime is often not a carer.
Disability and NDIS: what is actually required
There is no blanket NDIS requirement that every support worker holds a first aid certificate. The NDIS Practice Standards do not name one.
What the framework does expect is narrower and, for most roles, amounts to the same thing in practice:
What the framework does expect is narrower and, for most roles, amounts to the same thing in practice:
Workers must be able to respond to emergencies
Each worker supporting a participant is expected to be trained to respond to the emergencies that participant could reasonably have.
Providers hold participant-specific protocols
The response is meant to be planned per participant, not improvised on the night.
The NDIS Code of Conduct applies
Supports must be delivered safely and competently. Training is how a provider demonstrates that.
The employer decides
Responsibility sits with the provider to be satisfied each worker is adequately trained for the role they are rostered into.
Being exact about what this course is not: this is HLTAID011 Provide First Aid, a nationally recognised first aid unit. It is not training assessed against the NDIS high intensity support skills descriptors, which are a separate framework with their own requirements. We do not claim it is. If your role covers high intensity supports, ask your provider what they need you to hold.
Who in disability support is usually asked for it
Disability support workers
SIL and supported accommodation staff
Community access and day program staff
Support coordinators doing face to face work
Respite workers
Allied health assistants
Which course do you need
For aged care and disability roles the answer is almost always HLTAID011. The one exception worth knowing is the annual CPR refresh.
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HLTAID011 Provide First Aid
$165 5–6 hours
Full first aid including CPR. This is what aged care and disability employers ask for, and what you book the first time and every three years after.
HLTAID009 Provide CPR
$100 2 hours
CPR only. Book this for the annual refresher in the two years between full first aid renewals, not as a replacement for it.
HLTAID012 is the education and care version of the unit. It is for childcare and school settings and is not the one aged care or disability employers ask for. For the full three way comparison, the assessment detail, USI requirements and renewal rules, see our main HLTAID011 first aid course page.
What matters most in a care setting
HLTAID011 covers the full first aid syllabus and the unit does not change between providers. What changes is where the session time goes. In a room of aged care and disability workers, these are the ones that get worked hardest.
Choking and airway
- Mealtime choking in residential settings
- Working with a client who has swallowing difficulty
- Back blows and chest thrusts on a seated or chair-bound person
- When to escalate and when to call
Falls and the unresponsive client
- Assessing a client found on the floor
- Head, neck and spinal caution in frail clients
- Recovery position and airway management
- CPR on a bed, on the floor, and the move between them
Seizures and sudden deterioration
- What to do during and after a seizure
- Recognising a client who is going downhill
- Stroke, cardiac and diabetic emergencies
- Escalation and clear handover to paramedics
Responding under real conditions
- Responding to a client with dementia or communication difficulty
- Working alone, on night shift, or in a client’s home
- Incident reporting and accurate record keeping
- Debriefing after an event
The practical assessment is the same nationally set assessment everyone sits, including uninterrupted compressions on a manikin at floor level.
Upcoming course dates
Public sessions run on Saturdays, 9:00 am to 2:30 pm, at our Revesby training centre.
Sat 14 Nov · 9:00 am – 2:30 pm
Sat 28 Nov · 9:00 am – 2:30 pm
Sat 5 Dec · 9:00 am – 2:30 pm
Admin: dates must drop off automatically once they pass, and the same list must be mirrored in the Course schema.
Unit code
HLTAID011
Price
$165 per person
Duration
5 to 6 hours face to face
Delivery
Blended, online plus face to face
Includes
HLTAID009 Provide CPR
Certification
Statement of Attainment
Accreditation
ETEA, RTO 5089
Renewal
3 years, CPR annually
Training a team of care staff
Most enquiries from this sector are not one person. They are a facility manager or a provider with a roster to cover and a compliance date approaching.
Group bookings for aged care facilities, home care providers and disability providers run at our Revesby centre, with the date set around your roster rather than ours. Delivery at your own site can be arranged by special request. Sessions run in small groups, so every person gets real time on the manikin instead of queuing for a turn.
Group bookings for aged care facilities, home care providers and disability providers run at our Revesby centre, with the date set around your roster rather than ours. Delivery at your own site can be arranged by special request. Sessions run in small groups, so every person gets real time on the manikin instead of queuing for a turn.
Full detail on numbers, scheduling and invoicing is on our group and workplace first aid training page. [PLACEHOLDER — link this once that page is built.]
Where the training is
Address
Getting here
Revesby station and parking are both about a one minute walk away. Staff travel in from across the Canterbury-Bankstown and St George areas.
Full travel detail, including bus stops and nearby suburbs, is on our main first aid course page.
Aged care and disability first aid FAQs
There is no single unit code written into aged care law that every worker must hold. In practice almost every provider requires one, because the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards hold the provider responsible for safe clinical care, and the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission advises residential services to maintain first aid capability around the clock. HLTAID011 Provide First Aid is the qualification employers in the sector ask for.
There is no blanket NDIS rule that every support worker must hold a first aid certificate. What the NDIS framework does expect is that workers can respond to emergencies, that providers hold participant-specific emergency protocols, and that supports are delivered safely and competently under the NDIS Code of Conduct. The practical result is the same: most providers require first aid, and the employer decides.
HLTAID011 Provide First Aid in almost every case. It covers CPR as well, so one course satisfies both. HLTAID012 is the education and care version and is for childcare and school settings, not aged care or disability.
Yes. Choking and airway obstruction are part of HLTAID011, and we spend extra time on them in sessions with care sector participants because choking is the risk the Commission has specifically written to residential aged care providers about.
No, and no provider should tell you it does. This is HLTAID011 Provide First Aid, a nationally recognised first aid unit. It is not training assessed against the NDIS high intensity support skills descriptors, which are a separate framework. If your role requires high intensity supports, check with your employer what they need you to hold.
Industry practice is a full first aid refresh every three years, with a CPR refresher every twelve months in between. Many aged care and disability employers track the twelve month CPR date closely, because that is the one that lapses first.
Yes. HLTAID009 Provide CPR sits inside HLTAID011, so you do not need to book both. If you already hold current first aid and only need the annual CPR refresh, book the CPR course on its own instead.
Yes. Group bookings for aged care facilities, home care providers and disability providers run at our Revesby training centre. Delivery at your own site can be arranged by special request. Tell us how many staff and your preferred window when you enquire.
Our scheduled sessions run at Revesby. On-site delivery at your facility is by special request rather than a standard option, so ask when you enquire and we will tell you what is possible for your numbers and location.
This is the most common scheduling problem in the sector. Public sessions run on Saturdays. For a team on rotating rosters, a group booking is usually the better answer because the date is set around your roster rather than ours.
$165 per person. Five to six hours face to face, plus a short online component you complete beforehand at your own pace. The face to face session runs in a single day.
Yes. A USI is required for all nationally recognised training in Australia. It is free and takes a few minutes online. Without one, a Statement of Attainment cannot be issued.
Yes. Many people book before applying for aged care or disability roles, because employers often ask for first aid at the application stage. The course assumes no background.
At ANATE's training centre, Unit 18/4-10 Selems Parade, Revesby NSW 2212. Revesby station and parking are both about a one minute walk away.
Why train with ANATE
ANATE is a Sydney based training provider working almost entirely with the healthcare and care sectors. Accredited courses are issued through our partner RTO, ETEA (RTO 5089), and sessions are delivered by experienced senior Registered Nurses and clinical educators rather than general trainers working from a script.
That matters in a room of aged care and disability staff, because the questions are not textbook questions. They are about a specific resident, a specific shift, and what you are allowed to do when you are the only person there.
That matters in a room of aged care and disability staff, because the questions are not textbook questions. They are about a specific resident, a specific shift, and what you are allowed to do when you are the only person there.
Book your first aid certificate
HLTAID011 Provide First Aid, $165 per person, completed in a single day at our Revesby training centre. Group bookings available for facilities and providers.
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