ACET proactively supports HLA’s mission to improve the health and well-being of older people and their communities, whether in metropolitan, outer-metropolitan, rural, or remote settings. ACET specifically focuses on facilitating access to quality continuing professional development, education and training and associated support services for nurses and associated health sector workers serving in or planning to work in residential or home-based aged care settings, and for the organisations that engage their services.

ACET engages a team of highly competent, qualified and experienced nurse and doctor educators and trainers in the design and delivery of high-quality aged care focused professional development education and training experiences and learning outcomes for nurses, doctors, and other healthcare professionals. They are also experienced in providing policy and organisational strategies, designed to ensure the provision of accessible, cost-effective quality education and training services for aged care sector focused health care workers and their workplaces.

Our education and training programs and associated modules and resources are designed and delivered to support continuing professional development (CPD) needs, through engaging ‘experiential learning and teaching experiences, and directing them to useful information resources. Learning and teaching processes deployed involve ‘learning by doing’, action research, and by reflecting on the learning experience and outcomes. Learners are facilitated to take initiative, make decisions, monitor for and manage risks, and to be accountable for the results of their services. Personal and workplace risk assessment and mitigation practices for safe practice and rewarding career outcomes are vitally important elements underpinning the learning and teaching experiences and achievement of planned outcomes that are facilitated by our skilled educators and trainers.

Our educators and trainers help learners organise and connect their learning needs, personal experience, and reflections on the subject knowledge and skills applicable to each learning and teaching activity. They engage their learners’ experience and teach by example, modelling and stimulating critical thinking.

Our ACET educators and trainers have expertise in facilitating the identification of learning needs, and in customising education and training programs to meet the learning needs of their students and of their health services providing organisations.

Our education and training modules and associated Programs differ from others on the market, in that each session has been cost-effectively designed to guide the participants in their clinical decision-making, by considering each of the following factors:

• Career development aspirations;
• The interrelationship and differing perspectives on quality, cost, and time, from the needs of the consumer, the health professional, and the facility/agency;
• Communication as if affects contextual and clinical competence;
• Removal, mitigation, or management of risk; and
• The relationship between quality indicators and clinical practice.