New training platform targets aged care reform pressures
Aged care providers are facing growing pressure to demonstrate workforce capability as the sector moves deeper into the implementation phase of the new Aged Care Act and strengthened Quality Standards.
Against that backdrop, Altura Learning has launched Altura Essentials, a new compliance learning suite aimed at helping providers standardise workforce knowledge and simplify training requirements across residential and home care.
The suite includes 10 short video-based modules, each around 15 minutes long, alongside audit toolkits, facilitation resources and Recognition of Prior Learning functionality for experienced workers.
Separate pathways have been developed for residential and home care environments.
In an interview with The Weekly SOURCE, Altura Learning Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshmeen Azam said providers were increasingly focused on how to operationalise reform requirements in day-to-day care delivery.
“The real challenge is not understanding the legislation but translating it into everyday practice,” Dr Azam said.
“Organisations are being asked to embed new standards into day-to-day care, often with very stretched teams and limited time for training.”
Moving beyond compliance
Altura Essentials was developed in consultation with sector experts including outgoing Inspector-General of Aged Care Natalie Siegel-Brown.
Altura said the platform was designed to move beyond traditional compliance-focused education by emphasising practical application, consistency and audit readiness.
Dr Azam told The SOURCE that the reforms had changed expectations around workforce capability and accountability.
“We are moving from a system that has historically measured compliance to one that demands capability, accountability and demonstrable outcomes,” she said.
“In practical terms, that means training can no longer be treated as a transactional exercise that is completed, recorded and set aside.”
She said providers remained exposed where care delivery varied between sites, teams and individual staff.
“The Act implicitly demands consistency,” Dr Azam said.
“Yet across many providers, care delivery still varies significantly between sites, shifts and individual staff. That variability is a clinical risk.”
Altura Learning – which is owned by the sector’s largest Not For Profit aged care provider Bolton Clarke – supports more than 150,000 learners globally across aged and social care sectors.
