Posted on June 28, 2023 • No Comments

Regardless of your setting, building strong connections with clients is a vital role of community services workers like you. Establishing trust and rapport with clients is crucial in delivering effective care and support. So whether you work in hospitals, health assessments, advocacy and outreach, health education, or other fields, you have to forge meaningful connections […]

Posted on June 13, 2023 • No Comments

In supporting individuals living with chronic diseases, self-management plays a vital role. As a community worker in chronic disease care, you can empower and educate these individuals about the importance of self-management. Help them gain a sense of control over their conditions by promoting active participation in their own healthcare. Improve their overall quality of […]

Posted on August 16, 2022 • No Comments

Guest blog from Julie at Doula Connections Doulas are more commonly known to help women during the birthing process, but did you know there are doulas who assist people at the end of life too? Death doulas or end-of-life doulas can be engaged to help people navigate anything associated with end of life. Death can […]

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 […]

Posted on September 11, 2018 • No Comments

What is the no.1 most overlooked thing in aged and community care? Dignity.   There – I didn’t even make you work for it! It might be the biggest thing that gets overlooked in aged and community care, but dignity is one of those words that doesn’t always mean a whole lot to us in […]