Probity in procurement training

Our probity courses are designed to support health services maintain good probity practice.

Ethical decision-making and appropriate probity strategy supports health services to:

  • avoid risks through accountability and transparency
  • promote objective, documented and defensible procurement decision-making
  • identify potential issues early and pre-empt probity issues, minimising complaints
  • promote good financial management and achieve best value outcomes.

Probity courses by function 

Our probity courses are tailored to three employee groups within health services, including:

  • procurement professionals - training for employees whose primary role is to manage sourcing events, and/or manage contracts and suppliers.
  • clinical, operational and non-procurement professionals - training for employees who are involved in sourcing processes or have regular contact with suppliers as part of their broader role.
  • board, executives and chief procurement officers - for employees who are responsible for the governance of their organisation's procurement function and/or manage procurement related risk.

Course duration

Each course takes approximately 90 minutes to complete and comprises three modules:

  1. Probity fundamentals
  2. Practical application
  3. Case study

Certificate of completion

Once training has been completed, participants will receive a certificate of completion.

We will also record the outcome in our eLearning platform, ECHO.

Continuing professional development

To maintain registration, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency requires all registered nurses and midwives to participate in annual continuing professional development (CPD). 

Our probity training meets CPD requirements and counts toward annual CPD.

Access probity training

Training is provided via our ECHO eLearning platform. To access ECHO:

If you already have an HSV website account

  1. Log into the HSV website via the 'Log in' option in the main navigation.
  2. From your My Dashboard home page select 'ECHO'.
  3. Once inside ECHO, select ‘My Learning’ from the menu to access courses.

If you don’t have an HSV website account

  1. Select the 'Register' option in the main navigation
  2. Within the registration form, select 'Health Service' as your user type.
  3. Within the registration form, check the box for access to ECHO training.

Read the ECHO user guide for more information on the ECHO eLearning platform.

 

 

 

Content reviewed: May 2025