Charitable Grants Help Take Aged Care Training To The Next Level

Leading aged care in-home
support service, Enliven, has invested around $55,000 in
specialised training equipment and established a new
training base in Hamilton – significantly lifting the
standard of training available to its NZQA-qualified support
workers in Auckland and Hamilton.

In a groundbreaking
agreement, Enliven will share its new training equipment
with Visionwest Waka Whakakitenga in Rotorua, expanding
access to high-quality training resources for both services,
and will share Visionwest’s training room in
Tauranga.

Made possible through charitable grants and
supportive suppliers, the training equipment includes
hospital beds, full-body hoists, slide transfer sheets,
mesh-padded leg slings, power-lift sit-to-stand mobile
hoists, and patient-handling manikins. This enables hands-on
training in safe moving and handling, complex care
techniques and advanced in-home support
skills.

“This is an investment in quality and
dignity that has been made possible by charitable grant
funding and suppliers who want to make a difference and
believe in what we are trying to achieve,” says Enliven GM
Wendy Hoskin.

“Our new equipment and training rooms
will help to better prepare our support workers for the
changing realities of in-home care.

“Increasingly,
older people want to remain in their own homes for as long
as possible. That includes people with complex needs,
multiple health conditions, mobility challenges, and those
choosing to receive end-of-life care at home. This shift
demands higher-level skills, deeper clinical understanding
and greater sensitivity from our support
workforce.

“Our new training rooms and equipment
will help us meet those needs and raise the bar for in-home
care,” she says.

“More than 3300 Enliven clients
receiving care at home are expected to directly benefit from
the enhanced training capability we can now provide for our
support workers.

“Strengthening our support
workforce capability also creates a clear pathway for
ongoing professional development and helps attract new
talent into the aged care sector, future-proofing essential
home and community services for the years ahead,” says
Hoskin.

Enliven is grateful to the Freemasons
Foundation, the Snowden-Watts Charitable Trust (administered
by Perpetual Guardian), and the Pageo Charitable Trust for
supporting the purchase of specialised training equipment in
Auckland; to the Peter and David Picot Charitable Trust for
the Rotorua training equipment; to the Glenice and John
Gallagher Foundation for funding the Hamilton training
equipment; and to the St Joans Trust (administered by
Perpetual Guardian) for contributing to equipment in
Hamilton and Rotorua.

About Enliven

Enliven is
a leading and innovative provider of at-home and community
services for older people and people with disabilities. Most
people want to stay at home as long as they can, so a key
focus for Enliven is to work alongside people to achieve
their independence goals. Enliven is the health and
disability arm of Presbyterian Support Northern, a charity
that also provides the well-known and trusted social
services of Family Works, Lifeline, and
Shine.

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