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Human Resources

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Human resources is the process of people management. Providing aged care services is all about people supporting people. Providers must have robust human resources systems in place to provide optimal service to the people they support.
Aged Care Quality Standard 7 requires aged care service providers to ensure they maintain a qualified and skilled workforce in all areas of service provision. This ensures the organisation can deliver safe, respectful, appropriate and high quality care and support to consumers and maintain supportive, positive workplaces for their staff.
Learning Objectives:
  • By satisfactorily completing this topic it is expected that you will be able to:
  • Review Standard 7 of the Aged care Standards.
  • Describe the relationship between Skills Mix and delivery of care.
  • Define your scope of practice within a legal and ethical context.
  • Recognise the importance of mandatory education and continuing professional development.
  • Explain the necessity of a performance review.
  • Realise the reason for and importance of organisational policies and procedures.
  • Differentiate between a policy, a procedure, a protocol, and guidelines.
  • Provide a brief definition of a policy framework.
  • Document policy and procedure.
Course Code: ESSHR
CPD Value: 0.45