Build Wellness and Reablement into Everyday Practice – A guide to empowering CHSP and Support at Home frontline workforce

Build Wellness and Reablement into Everyday Practice – A guide to empowering CHSP and Support at Home frontline workforce

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Workshop overview

Wellness starts with how we care. Embedding a ‘wellness and reablement’ approach into service delivery starts with a mindset shift – from doing for clients to working with them. This is often challenging for aged care workers from cultural backgrounds who assume responsibility for others in their role within their family dynamic.

This bootcamp provides CHSP & Support at Home managers and team leaders an approach to upskilling their teams in understanding the importance of older people maintaining health, wellbeing and independence. Doing so, is supporting older people to remain confident and capable contributing to the care that they receive.

Discover simple strategies to boost wellbeing, including holding caring conversations that unlock interests and stimulate motivation for an older person to reconnect to activities that improve their physical and mental health and foster positive relationships with others.

Participants are provided a ‘Train the Trainer’ toolkit to deliver an ‘in-house’ training session for their teams, at their convenience.

Who should attend?

This workshop is ideal for care managers, team leaders and managers

The outcomes are:

  • Gain clarity over wellness, reablement and restorative care and how to support older people
  • Explore how the CHSP/Home care frontline workforce is key to maintaining older people’s health and wellbeing
  • Learn practical tips, tools and strategies to build wellness conversations into everyday service
  • Participate in unpacking a scenario and learn how to replicate this with your team as a training exercise using the Train-the-Trainer Toolkit
  • Understand how diversity and intersectionality influence personal choice

 

The CHSP provider ticket price is subsided by sector support and development and is only available to participants directly involved in delivering CHSP services. The toolkit is subsidised by sector support and development (SSD) funded by the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care and is available to all participants.

Date: 20 November 2025

Time: 1-2pm AEDT

Cost details:

Ageing Australia members
$225 incl. GST each

Non members
$315 incl. GST each

CHSP ticket
$50 incl. GST each

 

Note – Registration is one ticket per participant and all participants are required to access training on individual devices.


Disclaimer: The CHSP provider ticket price is subsidised by sector support and development (SSD) funded by the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care. Although funding for this session has been provided by the Australian Government, the material contained herein does not necessarily represent the views or policies of the Australian Government.

Who is facilitating?

Soula Houndalas

Soula Houndalas

Soula is a seasoned aged care professional, accomplished sector educator, and sociologist with postgraduate qualifications. Her work is driven by a passion for evidence-based positive ageing, and she is dedicated to equipping service providers to ultimately improve the lives of older people.

Her career spans key roles, including aged care assessment with the Department of Health, over a decade with COTA Tasmania, and as Diversity Educator with OPAN in Tasmania. While at COTA Tasmania, her core mission was “taking the complex and making it simple.” For over ten years, she successfully guided the aged care workforce, older people, and stakeholders across health and government through systemic change.

As a Sector Support and Development expert, Soula created the Aged Care Know Program to inform older adults about their wellness and available care options. Crucially, she also designed and led parallel training for service providers to ensure Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) aligned with the Aged Care Quality Standards. Nationally recognized for her skill in developing plain English tools that facilitate effective consumer-provider conversations, Soula is an awarded finalist for the Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing and has presented at national conferences, including the Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG).

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Payment terms

It is a condition of registration that participants pay full payment at the time of booking via credit card or by invoicing by prior arrangement.  All payments must be finalised prior to commencement. Registrants who have outstanding payments will not be able to participate. Upon registration, a tax invoice will be emailed to the person making the booking.

Aligns to the following strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards

  • Standard 1 - The individual
    • 1.1 Person-centred care
      • 1.2 Dignity, respect and privacy
        • 1.3 Choice, independence and quality of life
        • Standard 2 - The organisation
          • 2.8 Workforce planning
          • Standard 3 - Care and services
            • 3.1 Assessment and planning
              • 3.2 Delivery of funded aged care services
                • 3.3 Communicating for safety and quality
                  • 3.4 Planning and coordination of funded aged care services
                  • Standard 4 - The environment
                    • 4.1a Environment - services delivered in the individual's home
                      • 4.1b Environment - services delivered other than in the individual's home