Working with industry to strengthen home and community care
Industry collaboration is central to the work of the Centre. By working directly with care providers, employers, technology organisations and other sector partners, we can better understand the challenges facing home and community care and develop practical responses.
Partnerships can address immediate workforce needs as well as longer-term changes in how care is delivered. This includes new skills, technology-enabled care, changing service models and the growing need to support people to live independently at home.
The Centre provides a place for industry to share expertise, identify emerging needs and work alongside educators, researchers and technology specialists.
Building workforce capability with industry
As home and community care changes, workers will need a broader combination of human, practical and digital capabilities. They will increasingly need the confidence to use digital tools, adapt to new models of care and work across home, community and virtual environments.
The Centre will work with industry to identify current and emerging capability needs and translate them into practical workforce development. This can include targeted training, professional development, specialised care pathways and new approaches to learning.
Industry input can also help inform qualifications, microcredentials and other education and training solutions, keeping workforce development connected to the changing needs of care organisations, workers and communities.
Explore and test new approaches
New technology can create opportunities to improve care, but successful adoption depends on how well it works for the people receiving care and the workers using it.
Through the Smart Home Living Lab and Virtual Smart Home, industry can explore technologies and models of care in realistic environments before they are introduced more widely.
This may include assistive technology, remote care, digital health, smart home systems, automation and other technology-supported approaches to care. The Centre can bring together care providers, technology specialists, educators, researchers, learners, consumers and carers to understand how these solutions work in practice.
Co-design practical solutions
Some of the challenges facing home and community care cross traditional boundaries between care, technology, education, research and the built environment.
The Centre will create opportunities for organisations from these areas to co-design, trial and evaluate practical responses to real industry challenges. This collaborative approach can help identify what works, what needs to change and what skills workers need to adopt new approaches confidently.
The knowledge gained can then inform workforce learning, industry practice and further applied research, helping promising ideas move beyond testing and into practical use.
Partner with us
The Centre welcomes collaboration with care and service providers, employers, technology organisations, industry bodies and other organisations working across the home and community care ecosystem.
You might come to the Centre with a workforce challenge, an emerging technology, an opportunity to improve how care is delivered or an idea that needs to be explored in practice. We can connect you with expertise across education, research, technology and industry to determine how we can work together.