Federal funding for rural staff training
Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliot, has announced $2.6 million to provide training for 4,000 staff working in rural and regional aged care homes.
“Distance in rural and regional Australia can create challenges for staff and providers in accessing training courses,” she said.
“This training will support staff in smaller homes in rural areas attend training courses by paying for the course and the associated costs,” she said.
The Support for Aged Care Training (SACT) short courses focus on specialised areas such as wound management, diabetes care, medication management, falls prevention and manual handling.
This training will assist personal care workers to build on or work towards certificate level and enrolled nurse qualifications.
SACT funds education and training for personal care workers to increase the availability of highly skilled personal care staff in more isolated aged care homes to free up registered nurses so they can focus more of their time on clinical care.
