QA7, QA4, And QA2
Staff Induction
Welcome to NERPSA. This induction introduces the key information, expectations, and responsibilities that support your role.
Welcome To North East Regional Pre-school Association
Welcome to the North East Regional Pre-school Association. As a NERPSA employee, you are joining a team committed to providing high-quality, inclusive, and play-based early childhood education and care across North East Victoria.
NERPSA is the Approved Provider and employer for our services. This means NERPSA is responsible for strong governance, child safe systems, safe staffing, quality practice, compliance, employment processes, and supporting staff to understand their responsibilities.
This induction introduces NERPSA’s values, child safe commitments, policies, procedures, workplace expectations, systems, and support structures. It sits alongside your Letter of Employment, Position Description, Staff Handbook, Code of Conduct, NERPSA policies, service procedures, the Staff Resources website, and the NERPSA App.
Our Highest Priority
Children’s safety, wellbeing, dignity, rights, and best interests are paramount.
They are central to every decision, interaction, routine, and environment.
Your Role Matters
Every employee contributes to safe, respectful, inclusive, and high-quality services.
Your actions help shape children’s safety, belonging, learning, and wellbeing.
Ask Early
You are not expected to know everything on your first day.
You are expected to ask questions, follow NERPSA policies and procedures, and seek guidance when needed.
Look For The Teal Required Action Boxes
Teal Required Action boxes show the practical activity for each induction section. These activities help connect the induction information with your role, your service, and your day-to-day practice.
Education Managers may discuss induction content with staff during probation visits, staff meetings, service visits, reflective conversations, or professional learning discussions.
Induction, Service Orientation, And Local Practice
This induction gives you the NERPSA-wide information that all staff need to understand. It introduces NERPSA’s child safe expectations, key policies, legal and quality frameworks, reporting responsibilities, professional conduct, systems, employment expectations, and practical responsibilities connected to your role.
It does not replace your service orientation. Service orientation happens at your service and shows you how NERPSA’s expectations apply in the local environment, routines, team, children, families, and procedures where you will be working.
NERPSA-Wide Induction
Introduces organisation-wide expectations, responsibilities, systems, policies, and child safe practice.
Service Orientation
Shows how NERPSA expectations apply in your actual service environment, team, routines, and local procedures.
Probation And Professional Growth
Continues learning through support, feedback, reflective practice, and professional development.
Your service orientation is recorded separately using NERPSA’s Service Orientation Form, which is available on the Staff Resources website.
During service orientation, you should be shown:
- the layout of the service;
- emergency exits, evacuation routes, emergency equipment, and assembly areas;
- where first aid kits, emergency medication, medical management plans, risk minimisation plans, and communication plans are kept;
- where children’s attendance records, enrolment information, authorised nominees, court orders, and collection information are accessed;
- supervision zones, bathroom and personal care areas, outdoor areas, sleep and rest spaces, blind spots, and higher-risk transition points;
- the process for signing in and out, breaks, staff movement, and handover;
- who the Nominated Supervisor, Responsible Person, person in day-to-day charge, Educational Leader, and direct service contacts are;
- where the current Responsible Person display or record is kept;
- local routines, children’s individual needs, family communication processes, and service-specific procedures;
- how to raise a concern, ask for help, or escalate an urgent matter.
Service orientation helps connect NERPSA’s organisation-wide expectations with the actual children, families, team, environment, routines, and risks at your service.
Induction Is One Part Of Starting Safely
This online induction gives you the organisation-wide information. Your service orientation records how that information is introduced and applied at your service.
Where This Induction Fits
Recruitment
Recruitment includes your application, interview process, referee checks, suitability checks, and NERPSA’s decision to offer employment.
Onboarding
Onboarding happens after an offer of employment and before, or at the start of, your role. It includes employment paperwork, payroll information, Staff Record documentation, required certificates, screening checks, registration information, Code of Conduct acknowledgement, and any role-specific information required by NERPSA. Most onboarding paperwork is completed through the NERPSA App.
Induction — You Are Here
This NERPSA-wide induction introduces the organisation, child safe responsibilities, policies, legal and quality frameworks, workplace conduct, systems, practical employment information, and core expectations that support your role.
Service Orientation
Service orientation happens at your service. It introduces your team, physical environment, routines, children’s needs, emergency procedures, local expectations, and service-specific processes.
Probation
Probation is a supported review period and part of NERPSA’s child safe and quality system. During probation, NERPSA may check how you are settling into your role, what support you need, and whether key expectations are being applied in practice.
This may include active supervision, educator-to-child ratios, professional boundaries, Code of Conduct expectations, reporting pathways, privacy, record keeping, service orientation completion, and confidence using NERPSA policies and procedures.
PDP And Professional Growth
Child safety does not finish when induction is completed. Staff continue to build their knowledge through service orientation, probation, supervision, team discussions, staff meetings, policy updates, professional learning, reflective practice, and the annual Professional Development Plan process.
Three Sources Of Truth
Main NERPSA Website
The main NERPSA website provides public information about NERPSA, services, families, enrolments, communities, governance, and current NERPSA service policies.
Staff Resources Website
The Staff Resources website is where this induction is completed. It is also the staff-facing reference point for the Staff Handbook, Position Descriptions, PDP information, EAP Policy, staff resources, and staff forms.
https://www.nerpsa.orgNERPSA App
The NERPSA App is used for onboarding, staff links, quick forms, document submission, contact information, and practical staff resources.
Where NERPSA Service Policies Are Located
Current NERPSA service policies are located on the main NERPSA website, not the Staff Resources website.
The service policies page includes policies such as Child Safe Environment and Wellbeing, Code of Conduct, Compliments and Complaints, Supervision of Children, Determining Responsible Person, Incident, Injury, Trauma and Illness, Inclusion and Equity, Privacy and Confidentiality, Safe Use of Digital Technologies and Online Environments, and Participation of Volunteers and Students.
Policy links are included in later sections where they are directly relevant to the topic.
Completing This Induction
Who Completes This Induction
This induction is required for NERPSA employees as directed, including permanent and casual staff.
Work through each section carefully, complete the required induction activities as you go, and ask questions whenever something is unclear.
Induction Is One Part Of Starting Well
This induction provides NERPSA-wide information. Your service orientation, recorded separately through NERPSA’s Service Orientation Form on the Staff Resources website, shows how these expectations apply at your service.
What This Induction Covers
Safety, Supervision, And Reporting
You will learn about NERPSA’s child safe commitments, supervision expectations, ratios, reporting pathways, reportable conduct, mandatory reporting, privacy, confidentiality, digital safety, and the importance of escalating concerns promptly.
Systems, Conduct, And Responsibilities
You will learn about workplace conduct, NERPSA contacts, policies, procedures, leave, Additional Hours, OHS, wellbeing, EAP, health and medical requirements, emergency procedures, inclusion, reflection, and professional growth.
Need Help?
If you have questions about the induction, onboarding requirements, employment paperwork, Staff Records, or probation, please contact the Human Resources Manager.
Email: hr@nerpsa.com.au
You Are Supported
You are not expected to know everything immediately. You are expected to ask questions, follow the correct process, and keep children’s safety, wellbeing, dignity, rights, and best interests paramount.