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Dave Wells

Dave Wells

General Manager at Coastwide Community Care (NSW Central Coast) and co-author of *Future-Proofing You*, appearing on the SILosophy NDIS podcast.

Sep 16, 2026

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22:27
right?
22:28
And people are going to get on my case about untrained people, right? But she came in and she didn't know much of my answers, but she knew about, there's several different types of autism, there's several different types of dementia.
22:40
She actually researched the company, all that sort of stuff.
22:42
So for me, The conversation is about me working out what else I can give her to make her job easier.
22:51
So when they start, I have a set of, I think, eight things we ask them to do through our NGO.
22:57
And then I sit with the lady, Danielle, who's my advisory HR person, and we work out their training structure.
23:06
because she worked out who they can and can't work with what where their knowledge gap is and then we tailor their training to that person especially around uh there's a lot of we've got a couple of young fellas autistic young really young eight nine year old boys right and they need specific type of people they need calm they need People that understand.

12 MINS LATER

35:26
Is there anything else you think we need to talk about when it comes to training and managing a SIL workforce?

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