Aged Care Training

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Director

Aged Care Quality Association Inc.

Trish McReynolds CF JBI GCertBiometrics, BHltSc (Nursing). Trish is a self-employed Aged Care consultant who has been in aged care since 1998. She is a Registered Nurse, External Aged Care Assessor and is on the Advisor and Administrator panel for the Department of Health and Ageing. She provides support, training and mentoring in nursing, implementing quality management system, clinical auditing, evidence transfer and computerised clinical care systems. Trish is the Director of Quality Management Systems for the Aged Care Quality Association and Director of The Joanna Briggs Institute Aged Care Unit where she is support and promoting evidence based practice in aged care.

Speaking On:
Defining & ensuring quality
Strategies for effective benchmarking

Chris Robinson

Chief Commissioner

Australian Skills Quality Authority

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Chris Robinson is the Chief Commissioner of the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) and has extensive experience in vocational education and training and other areas of education, training and employment.

Chris has held numerous senior policy and leadership posts as the head of Education in South Australia; the Deputy Director General of Employment and Training in Queensland; the Managing Director of the National Centre of Vocational Education Research; senior training and education posts in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and in the education, training and employment portfolios in the Australian and United Kingdom governments.

Chris’s career has included more than 10 years as a researcher in the labour economics, education and training fields. Chris has published more than 100 books, chapters, journal articles and research monographs.

Speaking On:
Examining regulatory reform & meeting current needs
Strategies for effective benchmarking

Associate Professor Andrew Cole

Chief Medical Officer

HammondCare

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Andrew Cole graduated MBBS (Sydney) with first class honours in 1978.

After completing training in Rehabilitation Medicine, Andrew commenced work in community-based aged care and rehabilitation services in the St George area in Sydney in 1985 and then in central Taiwan between until 1996, with conjoint academic appointment at UNSW since 1985.

Since 1996, Andrew has been with Hope Healthcare and then HammondCare as a Senior Staff Specialist in Rehabilitation Medicine, coordinating aged care and rehabilitation education for UNSW medical students since 2002 and supporting specialist training in rehabilitation since 2007. He has developed new curricular approaches to training in these areas.

With clinical interests in neurological, cancer and community-based rehabilitation, Andrew has been the Chief Medical Officer of HammondCare since 2008. He is now based at the Hammond Village in SW Sydney, facilitating its development as a fully-fledged teaching and research aged care facility, and has driven the funding and recent establishment of new multidisciplinary Clinical Training Centres at Hammondville and Greenwich, with appointment of Chairs in Positive Ageing and Care, in Palliative Care and in Pain Medicine.

HammondCare recently attracted significant funding from the DoHA TRACS program, to develop distance and local teaching of aged care staff, both professionally registered and otherwise, in real time, using case-based discussion teaching methods. Topics were identified by staff in their annual development meetings as meeting real needs to enhance their ability to care for their clients, both in home and residential care settings.

Speaking On:
Distance learning for nursing & aged care qualifications
Cert III: Is it adequate?

Anne Lowe

Director Community Services, Health and Vocational Access

TAFE NSW Riverina Institute Wagga Wagga

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Anne holds qualifications in education – Dip Teach, Grad Dip Ed, M Ed – and has been involved in the VET sector for 18 years. In that time she has been involved in training, leadership and management and was appointed Director – Community Services, Health and Vocational Access – TAFE NSW Riverina Institute in July 2012. She leads a team of over 250 educational staff involved in the provision of a diverse range of programs – Aged Care, Dental Assisting, and Children’s Services, – in myriad locations including correctional centres, care facilities and workplaces – both real and simulated.

Speaking On:
Opening remarks from the Chair
Strategies for effective benchmarking
Opening remarks from the Chair

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Strategies to strengthen the quality of aged care services

What does the future of aged care training look like?

Residential Aged Care staff are projected to increase by around 14.1% by 2020 in contrast to 56.8% increase in demand. Whilst, the number of older people using community care services is expected to grow by 30%.

This conference will examine strategies for strengthening quality and meeting future needs of aged care training under the current regulatory reform. It will highlight key implementation strategies for registered training providers.

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