Consultancy

Ageing Australia

Consultancy services

Consultancy helps you to build capacity through coaching and mentoring, as well as offering adaptable advice to ensure sustainable business improvements.

We provide professional, evidence-backed guidance to support aged care providers deliver safe and high-quality care that older people can trust.

This expert Ageing Australia team has the capability to provide a range of consultancy services from a detailed review of business operating models to providing continuous improvement advice centred around culture, leadership, governance, quality and risk management and building a capable workforce.

We understand the day-to-day challenges faced by providers and the impact this has on frontline operations and partner with you to develop practical solutions.

Our team offers tailored fee-for-service consultancy services that is highly responsive to emerging issues and trends and the changing needs of providers in a fast-paced environment.

Discounted rates for Ageing Australia members

Some of the ways we can support you through our consultancy services

quality review

Our independent external review and gap analysis against the Aged Care Quality Standards demonstrates assurance and supports your leaders to optimise performance and prioritise continuous improvement actions. In the case of adverse compliance outcomes, we can assist you to navigate and respond to the identified issues and provide guidance to drive systemic improvements.

Support at Home Business Model Review

An assessment of your current business model and internal systems including workforce and pricing will ensure you remain sustainable under Support at Home funding and optimise the opportunities this presents.

Care Minutes System Review

A review of your rostering, policies, position descriptions, resident mix and reporting processes will ensure you are achieving targets, maximising financial outcomes by reducing the reliance on agency staff and prepared for the Care Minutes Performance Statement audit.

Governance and Leadership Development

We provide bespoke training and support to build director and leadership capability. This focuses on ensuring knowledge and systems drive good corporate and care governance and a positive workplace culture that embeds continuous improvement. Our coaching and mentoring approach supports the development of leaders based on strong relationships and sharing of skills and knowledge that enable learnings from formal training to be transferred to the workplace.

Clinical Systems Review

We have extensive experience in developing robust care governance frameworks based on quality and risk management including the timely identification and response to incidents and complaints. This can be paired with a review of your care management software to ensure configuration enables compliance in line with the framework.