For everyone

  • The Australian Government Department offer a program of experience in the palliative approach (PEPA). To build on your capacity in delivering person and culture-centred care PEPA offer two separate workshop’s that can be attended either individually or both in addition to. PEPA provide a unique opportunity of a supervised observational placement (two to five days) that is intended for you to incorporate the palliative care principles that you have learned into your day to day practice. They also offer a reverse placement which involves a specialist palliative care staff member travelling to your workplace to facilitate learning.
  • If you belong to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community that would like to know more about palliative care for your community, PEPA offers a workshop program and a learning guide to support health care providers who predominantly care for indigenous people.
  • To understand more about experiential learning to increase palliative care competence among the indigenous workforce, read this article.
  • For more courses in palliative care, visit the CareSearch education section which has a range of courses for health professionals, eLearning, for care workers, carers and volunteers and workforce development. Also visit the CareSearch short courses section where you will find a range of courses that run nationally and are continuously enrolling.
  • For those that wishing to learn more about palliative care within the aged care context, visit palliAGED. This website offers a range of evidence and practice information resources for the Australian aged care sector. The information is trustworthy and aims to support health and care practitioners as well as resource developers. Visit the training and education section to see arrange of courses available.
  • The Australian Institute for Loss and Grief offer a Bi-Cultural awareness, safety and inclusion program that aims to enhance service provider’s bi-cultural awareness and confidence. Their aim is to assist others to create a culturally safe environment and improve access to mainstream services in the absence of Aboriginal organisations.
  • Advanced Care Planning Australia offer a range of free online courses to help you to develop your advance care planning skills. Some of the modules relate to those with specific needs such as cultural diversity, those with dementia and decision making-legal implications. You must register to complete the modules and they take around 60 minutes to complete.
  • If you would like to learn more about diverse population groups, End of Life Directions for Aged Care (ELDAC) provide a good overview of various diverse population groups. They give particular consideration to diversity consideration in the context of palliative care.
  • The ELDAC: working together toolkit is a tool that can be used to integrate services between aged, primary and palliative care. This resource places the individual at the centre of care and guides you to plan, do, check and act. There are various resources available to create the best possible palliative care and advance care planning services for older people in your care, with some focus on revising your services to continuously improve.
  • An important part of palliative care is spiritual care. Spiritual Health Association offer professional development opportunities. The aim to educate others on the integration of evidence-based spiritual care in providing holistic care.

Reports:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Care leavers

Cultural and linguistically diverse people

Training resources:

Homelessness

  • The Homeless Palliative Care Toolkit is a set of resources designed for health professionals working with people who are homeless to use to recognise deterioration and help to get access to and plan person centred care.
  • palliAGED: Homeless People provide useful resources such as policy and management considerations and research papers.
  • To help you get started at having discussions with homeless people about anxiety and depression, Beyond Blue: tune in now modules have four modules for homelessness workers to improve their skills.

Intellectual disability

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex

Older people

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Rural and remote areas

  • If you are an allied health professional and are looking into establishing practice in the rural and remote setting, Services for rural and remote allied health (SARRAH) offer an online toolkit that consists of five modules to help with the transition.
  • Life in Mind provide information relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and their priority for suicide prevention in Australia. Visit their website to learn more about best practice guidelines and social and emotional wellbeing and mental health services in Aboriginal Australia.
  • For healthcare related resources relating to rural and remote populations visit PalliAGED: Rural and Remote Populations.
  • Mental health training is available for health professionals working in drought and bush fire affected remote communities through CRANA Plus. Their resources include webinars, podcasts, resources and workshops.

Veterans

  • To access resources that are relevant to people working with veterans who have mental health issues and training programs, visit Phoenix Australia.

Last updated 02 August 2021