Promoting Participation in the National Immunisation Program

This course is open to all on application. Recommended professional roles include:

• Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners
• Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Workers 
• Allied Health Professionals
• Other Health Professionals
• Pharmacists
• Practice Managers
• Social and Emotional Wellbeing Workers

The course has been designed to provide students with a deeper understanding of how to communicate with and support change of practice within their workplace, encouraging colleagues and peers to support practices to be changed or modified and make immunisation activities more conducive to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

On completion of the course students will have the skills and knowledge to work directly with patients, clients, families and communities to provide advice and encouragement to ultimately improve immunisation rates for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. 

The course is designed to provide students with a deeper understanding of how to communicate with and support change of practice within their workplace, encouraging colleagues and peers to support practices to be changed or modified to make immunisation activities more conducive to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

All materials are delivered online, via the learning management platform ‘accessIQ’ . Included are all the learning materials.

There are no associated formal assessments with this course. All learning is completed online with real time learning feedback provided via theory questions covering essential knowledge and skills. This style of feedback is known as a ‘formative assessment’, a self-marking process that provides immediate results and feedback.

Becoming an effective communicator in healthcare is critical to ensuring we deliver good advice and therefore health outcomes to patients, families, and communities. The course provides a deeper understanding of how to encourage immunisation activity to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.

Students enrolled in Benchmarque Group courses should adhere to the following principles:

• Display a commitment to learning and to achieving success
• Be responsible and accountable for their own learning, behaviour and decisions
• Actively participate in all workshop activities and learning experiences
• Attend all scheduled sessions and be punctual at all times
• Complete all online assessments and workplace practice activities
• Work in harmony and respect the rights and opinions of staff and other students
• Treat others as they themselves would like to be treated
• Use acceptable language at all times.

Yes, you will will receive a Certificate of Attendance which you will find in your accessIQ account, under My Achievements. 

You will need access to a computer with a stable internet service.

No. This course is only available as e-Learning.