Leading Quality Dementia Care
By Dementia Australia
- Enhanced Practice
- 5 weeks
- Blended: Online Course and Virtual Classroom
This program explores the benefits of self-leadership to thrive in an organisation, by supporting people living with dementia, in partnership with families and staff. The four learning modules in this program cover self-leadership, communication, trust and stress management. The benefits include:
- An ideal short starter course for staff with potential to become leaders in dementia practice.
- Participants strengthen confidence in their abilities and building colleagues’ capacity.
- Creates opportunities for further leadership programs.
Aged care, disability care, home and community care, hospitals, diversional therapists, facility managers/ coordinators, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, registered nurses, residential care workers, speech therapists.
Domains:
Communication and Connection
Location:
nationally
Cost:
fully-subsidised
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) :
5 hours
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this program, staff should be able to:
- Build a deeper understanding of self-leadership and its application to self in the workplace.
- Identify the impact of communication across the support relationship, and how self-leadership skills can improve communication.
- Recognise the importance of trust in building relationships.
- Gain self-leadership skills to identify and manage stress.
- Gain the confidence to lead and work collaboratively with staff, by developing these internal tools.
- Engage in a self-reflection session to identify key ‘take aways’ and how these skills can be applied in their workplace.
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