The news in TAS 31 July - 2019 ACSA Aged Care Awards (TAS)

Date: 31 July Time: 5.30pm – 7.30pm Location: Hotel Grand Chancellor, 1 Davey St, Hobart TAS 7000 Price: $50 per person for members

$90 per person for non-members The 2019 ACSA Aged Care Awards will celebrate the outstanding achievements and contributions made by organisations, teams and individuals in the aged care industry throughout the year. This year, there are seven award categories - with winners from each state and territory forming the list of nominees for ACSA’s 2019 National Aged Care Awards, to be presented during the organisation’s 32nd National Summit, being held in Melbourne from 8-10 October. Finalists:

• Community Care Tasmania • Community Transport Services Tasmania • Emmerton Park

• Glenview Community Services • Masonic Care Tasmania • Queen Victoria Care

Please register your team here

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UPCOMING EVENTS

7 August - Webinar: Dignity of Risk Date: 7 August Time: 3.30 – 4.15pm (Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Brisbane) Joseph is an experienced researcher with senior university appointments. His research is aimed at protecting residents from abuse and poor practices, and ensuring proper clinical and medical care standards are maintained and practiced. Joseph also has substantial real world experience as a Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine. Click here to register

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6 September - 2019 Tasmanian Training Awards Nominations for this year’s Tasmanian Training Awards - the awards for excellence in vocational education and training and workforce development - are now open. There are 14 categories, including seven individual awards, four business awards and three equity awards. Awards include:

• Apprentice of the Year • Trainee of the Year • Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Student of the Year • Vocational Student of the Year • School-based Apprentice/Trainee of the Year • VET Teacher/Trainer of the Year • VET in Schools Student of the Year* • Industry Collaboration Award • Small Employer of the Year • Employer of the Year • Training Provider of the Year • Equity Apprentice/Trainee of the Year* • Equity Vocational Student of Year* • Equity Employer of the Year*

*There are no national equivalents to the VET in Schools Student of the Year award or the three Equity awards. The awards will be presented at a dinner to be held at Wrest Point on 6 September, and winners (in aligned categories) will have the opportunity to represent Tasmania at the 2019 Australian Training Awards - to be held in Brisbane on 21 November. Nominations close on 7 June. More details will be available soon, so please check the Australian Training Awards website here. For further information visit the Skills Tasmania website or contact Jacqui Maclaine via email or by telephone on (03) 6165 6008.

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10 September - Workforce Symposium Date: Thursday, 10 September Location: Hotel Grand Chancellor Launceston, 29 Cameron St, Launceston Program sessions:

• Implementing the Aged Care Workforce Strategy • Unpacking Standard 7 of the Aged Care Quality Standards • Exploring funding opportunities • Five generations in the 2020 workforce – supporting the generations and attracting millennials • Injury prevention in aged care • Workplace mental health and wellbeing – how to manage disclosure and support your workforce • Performance management and employee relations • Checking the health of your payroll system

Click here to register. For questions please contact Emma Nash on 1300 856 904 or email emma.nash@acsa.asn.au.

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26 September – Dignity of Risk workshop Date: 26 September Venue: TBC Balancing staff and organizational responsibilities of duty of care with the residents’ rights and choice in Dignity of Risk. It is important for individuals to be supported in making choices – this requires identifying, providing and communicating the available options, the potential consequences and the nature of support a RACS is able to provide. Improving practice by using a systematic approach addressing the key steps should reduce the potential for adverse professional and legal repercussions. It also enables the resident, families and staff to better cope with respecting choices when a known harmful outcome eventuates. The capacity of aged care and health care professionals to apply the principles of “Dignity of Risk” into practice requires drawing on a range of components within multiple disciplines. Specifically, client centred care, risk management, clinical trajectories of diseases of older persons, communication with family and staff, understanding decision-making in cognitively impaired persons and working with organisational and societal policies and laws. It is preferable for those wishing to participate in this workshop to have a clinical and/or managerial experience in aged care. Click here to register.

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