Our Mentoring Programs

We support your leaders to THRIVE through our range of online mentoring opportunities. We offer both small group mentoring and 1:1 individual mentoring for both clinical and non clinical leaders in the health, aged and disability sectors.

Our mentors have experience in working in leadership roles within the health aged care and community care sectors. We provide practical guidance and support to develop your leaders, assisting to grow and retain your workforce.

More than ever it is so important to support your leaders to develop an innovative culture and to attract and retain talent. Mentoring is a cost effective way to deliver these outcomes, preparing future, increasing workforce productivity and assisting to develop and embed a desired workforce culture.

For further information on our Mentoring Packages click HERE.

A Practical Approach to Clinical Governance - On Demand Leadership Program

We’ve been in your shoes! We know what its like to be a clinician one day and a leader the next, transitioning into new roles quite often with little formal support, learning as we go. That’s why we’ve developed this practical program, to give you an introduction to clinical governance and how to drive quality and safety in your role as a leader in the health aged care, community or disability sector.

This practical program (did we mention that its practical?) has been developed based on our own experience working across health, aged care and the community sector in clinical, people management, program and project management and in quality and policy development roles. We know that your time is precious so we have created four x 90 minute online sessions that you can watch in your own time to get an understanding of the following key aspects:

  • What is Clinical Governance and what is my role in driving Clinical Governance?

  • Data: Using Data to monitor performance and drive improvement ( We promise that this won’t be dry!)

  • Continuous Improvement - Using the PDSA model to practically make improvements

  • Communicating for change - Getting your team onboard to support and drive improvement initiatives

We will also allocate you with a mentor for this program. Your mentor will check in with you after each session and will be available to answer any questions. Check out our mentors and their experience below.

Please note that this program is not just for clinical staff - It is for both clinical and non clinical leaders in the care sectors.

For more information on this program check out our FLYER. To register for the program please email kathy@thriveaged.com.au

Does this program sound like something you would like us to run for your organisation? We can tailor this program to meet your organisation’s needs, including supporting your staff to put their learning into practice by implementing a small change project and presenting this change project to your leadership teams. Send us an email to chat more about this kathy@thriveaged.com.au

Our Mentors

  • Kathy Kirby

    Kathy is a Registered Nurse, with 20 years’ experience. Her speciality is working with nursing leaders in community, health and aged care to build their capability in the following areas:

    • People Management – including performance management

    • Clinical Governance

    • Quality and Safety

    • Continuous Improvement

    • Developing healthy teams and culture

    Qualifications:

    Bachelor of Nursing: Registered Nurse

    Grad Cert Management and Healthcare Leadership

    Certificate in Coaching

    Check out Kathy’s Bio

  • Kate Lamont

    Kate is a registered occupational therapist with over 20 years’ experience working across the healthcare and policy continuum. Her speciality area is supporting staff new to quality, project or program management roles to build capability in:

    • Clinical governance

    • Project Management

    • Program Management

    • Continuous Improvement

    • Co-design

    Qualifications:

    Bachelor of Occupational Therapy

    Master Health Services Management

    Certificate IV Training and Assessment

    Check out Kate’s Bio

  • Anita Panayiotou

    Anita is a registered clinical neuropsychologist with experience as working as a clinician, healthcare manager, project manager and researcher. She specialises in supporting new leaders in the following areas:

    • Team and organisational culture

    • Understanding personality and communication styles

    • Clinical governance

    • Project management & evaluation

    • Program Management

    • Continuous Improvement

    • Co-design

    Qualifications:

    Bachelor of Behavioural Neuroscience

    Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology

    Doctor of Clinical Neuropsychology

    Diploma of Management

    Certificate IV Health Administration.

    Currently completing: Master of Health Administration (La Trobe University).

    Check out Anita’s Bio

  • Jo Spence

    Jo is an experienced manager with over 15 years working in the community and healthcare sector. Her specialty area is supporting leaders in community, health and aged care organisations with the following portfolios:

    • Volunteer recruitment and management

    • Community Partnerships

    • Consumer Advisors and Co-design

    • Leisure and Lifestyle

    • Non Clinical Service Management

    Qualifications:

    Associate Degree Community Development

    Associate Diploma Professional Counselling

    Check out Jo’s Bio

  • Melissa Angelone

    Melissa is a Mental Health Nurse Consultant with extensive experience working in Older Person’s mental health as a nurse consultant and clinical educator. Her specialty is supporting clinicians to build their capability in the following areas:

    • Clinical expertise in Older Person’s mental health and dementia

    • Clinical Education and supervision

    • People Management

    • Continuous Improvement

    • Project Management

    Qualifications:

    Bachelor of Nursing: Registered Nurse

    Graduate Diploma Mental Health Nursing

    Check out Mel’s Bio

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What our clients are saying

  • My future direction in all facets of my life from personal to professional development was definately something I had put on the back burner. Through the Mentor program I have been able to refocus, make short and long term goals that are not only achievable but specific to my needs. In times of uncertaintly throughout the aged care sector, this has given me the confidence I needed to make some future plans, both personal and professional, and by doing so not only do I benefit but so does the organisation.

    Aged Care Quality Manager

  • Working with Thrive provided our team with the support and drive to achieve our goals and develop an education and learning strategy for our aged care workforce. Working with Thrive increased my confidence as a leader and manager.

    Health Care Education Manager

  • NCN Health is proud of the high quality of health care it provides to our community and the support we provide to our staff to assist them to learn and grow. Over the past 6 months THRIVE have facilitated a multidisciplinary middle managers leadership program for approximately 30 staff. Their communication with executive in planning the course and after each session has been timely and beneficial and course content relevant and engaging. Most importantly feedback from attendees has been incredibly positive. I would highly recommend. Thank you Kathy and Kate!

    Michelle Butler, Director of Quality, Risk and Performance, NCN Health

  • By engaging Thrive Consultants, Dhelkaya Health experienced an energetic team which thoroughly engaged aged care staff across the organisation. Thrive’s leadership and drive resulted in a collaborative, productive process which progressed key changes and produced standardised processes and procedures. The education and support provided to the teams was practical and sustainable.

    Executive Director Quality, Development and Improvement

  • Thrive consultants provided Dhelkaya Health Residential Aged Care with invaluable support, guidance and resources establishing a Community of Practice which allowed us to implement positive change, education and growth.

    Nurse Unit Manager of 43 bed RACS facility

  • I engaged the Thrive mentoring to support three aged care managers who were all developing and emerging as leaders, and I felt needed some additional support. I think it helped them provide leadership to their teams, and gave an offsite sounding board for how to manage complex situations, and supported them how to have hard conversations.

    Director of Clinical Support, Public Sector Health Service, Regional Victoria

  • The NCN New Leaders Mentorship Program was an incredible experience and a significant success. The course materials were highly relevant, with the Clinical Governance session standing out as particularly informative. Kate and Kathy were exceptional mentors, providing me with real-life experiences and the skill sets necessary to transition into the workforce with confidence and motivation. My experience with the mentorship program was nothing short of amazing. I highly encourage others to participate in this program if you're aiming to become a new leader within your organization.

    Quality Coordinator, NCN Health

  • It was great to speak with someone who has worked in role and could understand the difficulties being faced. Kathy was able to use her experience to give me ideas to be a better leader and to help promote a positive work environment for all. Thanks for the great mentoring sessions Kathy!

    Aged Care NUM

  • This program works very well. It was lovely to have the support of Kathy as I was transitioning into a leadership role. The mentoring sessions were tailored to my own individual needs and I was able to put into practice some very useful strategies suggested by my mentor. I would highly recommend this mentorship program for those transitioning into management.

    Aged Care NUM

  • It helps build confidence in our own skills, working with someone else and sounding out ideas with someone was really helpful, great course.

    Aged Care NUM