TRACS Clinical Facilitator Resthaven Inc Care Workers Student Participation Facilitator Helping Hand Aged Care Student Placement Coordinator Eldercare Student Liaison Officer – to manage student placements at site/service level ACH Group Centralised Student Placement Coordinator ACH Group, Helping Hand Aged Care, Resthaven Inc Mentor – supporting students on placement in aged care services ACH Helping Hand Aged Care, Resthaven Inc, Juniper-Annesley, Mt St Vincent, Queen Victoria Home, Masonic Homes, St Catherine’s, Rosary Gardens Peer Support and Assessor RSL LifeCare NSW; St John’s Village Evidence Practice Leaders Allambee, Cabrini, Montgomery & Namarra sites working with Deakin University Facility educators – using a approach Deakin University CHART Liaison Nurse IRT, Calvary Retirement Community, Banksia Village, St Andrew’s Village Academic Mentors IRT, Calvary Retirement Community, Banksia Village, St Andrew’s Village Research Champion IRT Wollongong Research Fellow Anglicare Southern Queensland Research Liaison – to support Research Fellows, liaise between USQ & ASQ Anglicare Southern Queensland Innovation Leader – to support a learning culture and embed TRACS Project Juniper (WA), Queen Victoria Home (Tas), Masonic Homes (Tas) A number of Projects have also provided valuable learnings for the wider sector that challenge traditional assumptions about which disciplines should be considered part of the ‘core’ workforce and which can be contracted in as needed. These Projects, in particular, the Southern NSW Local Health District led Project, and the Helping Hand Aged Care led component of the ReSeE Project, have embedded allied health professionals in work teams. This has enabled a significant and ongoing transference of their knowledge and skills to the direct care workforce, enabled clinical education that normally is difficult to provide due to a lack of supervisors from these disciplines, and produced a range of improved care outcomes for clients. This model of embedding with associated education and support has been extremely successful and
opportunities to share learnings with peers has been valuable and contributed to further innovation. The extent to which an evolving Community of Practice is becoming apparent was apparent at the second National Evaluation Workshop and has been increasingly evident with a number of collaborations including: The Deakin led project and the UniSA led project collaborated to present a seminar on the TriFocal Model. The UniSA led project provided a seminar to ACSA members on the TRACS model with specific reference to clinical education. The Helping Hand Aged Care partner in the UniSA led project is mentoring Southern Cross Care SA&NT to apply their workforce education model and the broader TRACS model. The Deakin led project and the University of Canberra led project have collaborated to provide information the TriFocal Model in southern NSW and the ACT. The University of Canberra led project hosted a Practice Education Roundtable in 2013 which involved other TRACS Projects and focused on issues facing the aged care sector and strategies to address them. The Southern NSW LHD led project is providing mentoring and support to other TRACS Projects interested in replicating the model and enhancing the development of clinical education for psychology students: ACH Group led Project The University of Wollongong led Project The Helping Hand Aged Care component of the led Project. Staff from Helping Hand indicated that they have had difficulty identifying psychologists who are suitably qualified to supervise Provisional Psychologists on placement in their facilities. ACEU staff have offered to train and/or supervise an interested psychologist and support them in their supervision of students on placement. ACEU staff also work with the NHMRC Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, and through this with WA aged care provider Brightwater, who have also reported difficulties with finding specialist supervisors for psychology students in their program. The TRACS psychologists are providing ongoing advice and support to them on this issue. The University of Tasmania led project is collaborating with the QUT led project to deliver dementia education to the aged care sector. The University of Wollongong TRACS Project Lead, Professor Richard Fleming, has provided guidance on how to make the environment at IRT Kangara Waters more appropriate for people with dementia. This service is one of the four aged care services supported by the CHART Project. Feedback from staff at this service shows a direct impact on care provision as a result of the CHART Liaison’s research project which was designed to make the facility’s environment more appropriate for people with dementia.