Buddy Training for Staff Supporting Overseas Care Workers

DETAILS FOR COURSES RUNNING IN 2025 TO BE ADDED SOON

Trainer: Elizabeth Beh, CEO, Tresacare

Format: Two 90-minute online workshops over two consecutive weeks

Online Workshops

  • 09:30 – 11:00 AM, Wednesday, 27th November 
  • 09:30 – 11:00 AM, Wednesday, 4th December

Overview

These workshops are designed to prepare experienced care workers to become effective buddies for newly arrived international recruits.
The training will provide practical tools and strategies for offering emotional support, workplace orientation, and day-to-day guidance.

Content: Includes communication skills, conflict resolution, leadership, and wellbeing support

Places Per Course: 10 participants

Outcome: Buddies will be fully prepared to support international recruits through ongoing check-ins, helping with short-term integration and long-term retention.

Additional Learning Resources

  • Buddying checklist: a step-by-step guide
  • Access to wellbeing resources & stress management toolkits
  • Information on where to signpost in case of issues
  • Customised onboarding plans 

About the Trainer

Elizabeth Beh is the CEO and founder of Tresacare, an award-winning social enterprise that cares for care workers. After a personal health crisis during the pandemic, Liz saw firsthand how vital yet unsupported care workers are. This experience led her to establish Tresacare in 2022, addressing a sector filled with compassionate but burnt-out workers.

With over a decade of HR and business consulting experience at Morgan Stanley, Aon, and UBS, Liz brings best practices that shape Tresacare’s innovative approach to retention and workforce transformation. Living with multiple hidden disabilities and having been both a caregiver and care recipient, Liz uniquely understands the challenges on all sides of care.

She openly shares her health journey on the Tresacare blog, fueling her passion for change in the sector. Together with co-founder Krystle Wong, who shares an overseas background, Tresacare is especially attuned to the needs of international care workers, focusing on intercultural integration and wellbeing.

Tresacare is the 2024 winner of the Entrepreneur’s Award for Social Innovation and the 2023 Care Innovation Challenge by the National Care Forum.

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