Centre for Dementia Learning
Centre for Dementia Learning
Enhance dementia practice, strengthening your existing staff’s capacity to be dementia practice leaders. Across 14 units of competency, participants acquire advanced, contemporary knowledge and skills to become leaders in implementing changes to practice. This is to improve the lives of people living with dementia, by workers improving their engagement with them, as well as with their families and carers.
Graduates will contribute to the transformation of dementia practice.
This course can be found under Accredited training or Leadership training courses.
Duration
12 months
Cost
Fully Funded - No tuition fee
Course availability
Online
This program will provide participants with a range of knowledge and advanced skills to become leaders in implementing changes to practice through the engagement of workers, families, and carers to improve the lives of people living with dementia. With a focus on establishing collaborative networks, this will ensure the effective application of knowledge of changed behaviour, reablement strategies, cognitive assessment, and screening.
This program is suitable for people working in aged care, health care and community services. Eligible participants must be working with people living with dementia in a professional capacity to complete this program, with all work placement assessment requirements to be conducted in a suitable workplace.
To identify and ensure you have the right support to complete this nationally recognised program, applicants are required to complete pre-enrolment screening as part of the enrolment process.
As this is an online program, learning can happen from anywhere with an internet connection, using a desktop PC, laptop or tablet device. Participants must also have a computer camera, to engage in webinar sessions.
This Nationally Recognised program includes the following units of competency:
- Reflect on and improve own professional practice (CHCPRP003)
- Demonstrate leadership in the workplace (BSBLDR411)
- Lead team effectiveness (BSBLDR414)
- Apply concepts of dementia and contemporary practice (NAT10993001)
- Work legally and ethically (CHCLEG001)
- Contribute to dementia diagnosis through cognitive screening and assessment (NAT10993002)
- Deliver dementia support using enablement strategies (NAT10993003)
- Support independence and wellbeing (CHCCCS023)
- Optimise communication for people living with dementia (NAT10993004)
- Support changed behaviour associated with dementia (NAT10993005)
- Work with diverse people (CHCDIV001)
- Plan for and provide care services using a palliative approach (CHCPAL002)
- Facilitate wellbeing of carers and self in dementia care (NAT10993006)
- Develop and maintain dementia service networks (NAT10993007)
Students must successfully complete fourteen units of competency to attain the qualification. The qualification is delivered over a total of twelve months. It is a full time study load (approximately 20 hours per weeks in learning and assessment).
Benefits
- Advancing existing skills and knowledge in dementia while enhancing leadership skills, to implement sustainable practice changes and contribute to care using contemporary, evidence-based practices.
- Gaining a valued member of staff who can successfully lead and mentor staff.
- Empowering your workforce to tailor your dementia care practice, enabling people living with dementia to live well.
- Maximising engagement with participants in applying knowledge through weekly facilitator webinars and ongoing support.
Dementia Training Australia is a major funder of this program under the Australian Government Dementia and Aged Care Services Fund and delivered by Dementia Australia (RTO CODE 2512). Visit dta.com.au
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