WorkSafe Communities of Practice

About the Communities of Practice

Inspired by previous WorkSafe Learning Networks, the Communities of Practice take a collaborative partnership approach to help workplace leaders to take action to create psychologically healthy and safe workplaces.

Communities of Practice are now live

The Victorian Government has invested $1.6 million in two new Communities of Practice in Victoria’s residential aged care and disability service sectors.

Led by the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association and the National Disability Services, the Communities of Practice are supporting workplace leaders to collaborate with peers, discuss challenges and identify practical solutions to prevent mental injury in their industry.

Each Community of Practice will create practical tools and resources to improve the psychosocial safety climate within Victoria’s residential aged care and disability service workplaces.

Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association

Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association is leading a consortium of partners to co-design an approach that focuses on the practical application of psychosocial safety climate.

The Community of Practice known as the Aged Care Improvement Collaborative is working with workplace leaders from across Victorian residential aged care homes including public, private and not-for profit facilities.

Leaders are participating in peer-to-peer workshops and tailored coaching sessions to build their capacity and help them embed psychosocial safety climate learnings into their workplaces.

Project tools and outcomes will be promoted across industry to influence policies and standards, driving broad reaching and sustainable change in the sector.

Visit the project webpage to learn more, or to Express Interest for your Residential Aged Care service to participate.

National Disability Services

National Disability Services are using a co-design process to develop a shared understanding of workplace psychological health challenges within the disability sector.

Over twenty large providers are participating as sector champions, improving psychosocial safety climate within their own organisations and then providing support to others across the industry.

The Communities of Practice is delivering multi-layered engagement including seminars and facilitated sessions to supporting peer to peer experiential learning and connections.

National Disability Services are developing, testing and refining actionable tools and resources that build the capability of workplace leaders to improve psychosocial safety climate in their workplace.

Visit the project webpage to learn more about the project and access project resources.