The Sector development team meet regularly to ensure collaborative responses to realising
the broader sector development and change management priorities and expectations.
This strengthens the capacity of the team to feedback to both levels of government about
local issues.
The team has strong relationships with the broader community care sector and participates
in networking activity and partnerships to inform their work and feedback to government.
Local, State and National work priorities and direction are developed by DoHAC to support
a coordinated and consistent approach to change management and sector support . These priorities emerge from organisations’ annual wellness and reablement (previously ASM) and diversity plans, aged care reform and transition issues, feedback from the Hume Region Alliance and networks, government priorities and directions, local intelligence and barriers/successes experienced in implementing previous actions.
Wellness and Reablement Consultant - Paul Bennett
Wellness and Reablement Consultants (WRCs) support CHSP and HACC-PYP organisations to implement the wellness and reablement approach. More specifically the role:
Is the key communication point for wellness and reablement developments and information,
Assists organisations to gain a consistent understanding of the wellness and reablement policy development work that the Commonwealth is currently undertaking,
Provides practical operational support on Wellness and Reablement as a broad sustainable
change management and quality improvement strategy, including planning.
Paul Bennett
0437 770 728
Paul.Bennett@gatewayhealth.org.au
REGIONAL Aboriginal Development Officer -
Vicki Walker (YORTA YORTA) - currently on secondment
RADO’s support CHSP and HACC-PYP staff and organisations to improve access to services for Aboriginal people through culturally responsive services. RADO’s also support Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCO’s) to provide services in their communities.
The RADO role includes:
Coordinating regular CHSP/HACC-PYP Aboriginal service provider regional network meetings and facilitating communication between the network and state-wide Victorian Committee for Aboriginal Aged Care and Disability (VCAACD),
Supporting the development of partnerships between ACCOs and mainstream CHSP
and HACC-PYP providers.
There are four RADO’s in Victoria: one for the BSW/Grampians region, one for the Hume/Loddon Mallee regions, one for the Gippsland region and one for the Melbourne metropolitan region. The RADO’s work closely with their regional networks, members of the VCAACD and the Sector Development Teams to connect their work to state and national policy initiatives.