Maintain Mental Health as a Community Worker | Essential Skills

Posted on April 24, 2023 • No Comments

Community workers play an important role in supporting their communities and improving people’s well-being. However, given the challenges, the demands of the job can take a toll on their mental health. So as a community worker, you have to prioritise maintaining your mental and physical health and well-being. You cannot take care of others if […]

Posted on March 31, 2023 • No Comments

Importance of Disability Support Services If you have patience and a caring heart to help persons with disabilities, there are also skills and knowledge that are critical in providing the best care and support for them. Disability support workers play a significant role in empowering individuals with disabilities and helping them achieve a greater sense […]

Posted on March 29, 2023 • No Comments

Benefits of Leadership and Management Training Mastering the skills that are critical for successful leadership and team management is not easy. Many aspiring leaders and managers struggle to develop these necessary competencies. But by undergoing leadership and management training, companies and organisations can reap the benefits of managers who are effective communicators, great decision-makers, productive […]

Posted on February 16, 2023 • No Comments

What’s on your mind? A staple of the human service sector is the idea of understanding a person’s cognition. Cognition has been described as, the mental processes that happen in the brain, Including. Where our attention is focused, what we think about, the use of language, how we learn, our memory and our unique perception […]

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Burnout Alert! Most of us are aware of the ideas behind Professional Boundaries. Ideas like avoiding conflict of interest, (when we stand to gain personally including family, friends, socially or financially from a decision made in the workplace). Or we might think about our conduct at work, (no inappropriate actions that can cause harm and […]

Posted on August 16, 2022 • No Comments

Workplaces right across Australia are dealing with the bullying and harassment epidemic – with aged care and disability services no exception. This unseen and under-reported phenomenon is costing the aged care and disability industries dearly through personal loss of well-being, and corporate loss of skilled and passionate human resources. Having an in-house problem with bullying […]

Posted on December 16, 2020 • No Comments

Three simple ways to get your team onside again. Do you employ people in community services? If so, do you also find it interesting that in such a people-focussed industry, communication culture is often not functioning at the level it could be? It’s ironic, but people working in areas where client communication skills are at […]

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How to handle negative emotions and behaviour in myself and others. During October Australians have observed both National Mental Health Week and National Carers Week. And while mental health is always an important issue, this year it’s taken on all new significance, especially for those involved in caring roles. People everywhere are stopping to really […]