Sector Expert Partners

DCM Institute’s inaugural Lunch & Learn event a success

100% of the 100+ NSW Village Managers who attended agree: this is one initiative not to be missed: the DCM Institutes first Lunch & Learn. The DCM Institute held an exclusive event for NSW participants in their professional development program...

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Ian Horswill

17 Feb 2025

Sector Moves & People

Uniting Vic.Tas CEO Bronwyn Pike AM to depart after six years in role

Bronwyn Pike AM has decided not to renew her contract that expires later this year, the workforce was informed on Friday. The former Victorian Health Minister became Uniting’s inaugural Board Chair in 2016 when Wesley Mission Victoria merged with...

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Ian Horswill

03 Feb 2025

Sector Moves & People

Eureka’s Chief Financial Officer and Joint Company Secretary resigns

In a statement to the ASX on Friday, the only pure-play seniors’ rental village operator announced Laura Fanning had left the business ”to pursue new opportunities”. Laura will remain the role she has held for six-and-a-half years until late...

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Ian Horswill

27 Jan 2025

Sector Moves & People

38 newly qualified aged care staff seek job opportunities in Australia

Labour hire and recruitment firm Labour Solutions Australia (LSA) has trained 100 aged care workers in Honiara, the Solomon Islands, this year, and has a pool of workers with Cert III qualifications seeking employment as soon as January.

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Caroline Egan

28 Nov 2024

Sector Expert Partners

Register now for the StewartBrown Retirement Living Performance Report

The widely respected aged care benchmarking accountant will now provide an independent survey and report for the retirement living sector advocacy. Operators can join the survey now. This is a significant new initiative in that StewartBrown is the...

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Ian Horswill

10 Nov 2024

Sector Expert Partners

East Coast sellouts as VILLAGE SUMMIT 2024 kicks off in Adelaide

Internationally recognised high performance expert and keynote speaker Lisa McInnes-Smith had the audience gripped as DCM Institute’s premier event began in the Crowne Plaza, Adelaide, this morning. High performance is the theme of DCM Instutute’s...

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Ian Horswill

12 Nov 2024

Sector Moves/People

Robotics pioneer Lee Martin, CEO of Lutheran Homes Barossa, SA, forced to step down

Lee had been CEO of the Not For Profit operator of three residential aged car homes and two retirement villages in South Australia’s Barossa Valley for more than a decade, was appointed in October 2014. He said he was “devastated” by the decision of...

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Caroline Egan

30 Oct 2024

Sector Moves & People

National Aged Care Workforce Alliance pilots skills passport and standardised induction for care workers

Providers can use the skills passport to post jobs and identify suitable candidates, significantly streamlining current recruitment processes. It’s intended for the training to be rolled out across NSW and Victoria with other foundation partners...

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Caroline Egan

22 Aug 2024

Sector Moves & People

Jenni Allan retires as CEO of Not For Profit home care provider ADSSI after 20 years

Not For Profit home care provider ADSSI has announced the retirement of CEO Jenni Allan after 20 years of dedicated leadership with the NSW Central Coast-based organisation. Jenni joined the provider, which operates under the names Adssi In-home...

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Caroline Egan

22 Aug 2024

Sector Moves & People

Catherine Nance and Adjunct Professor Alan Lilly appointed to The Mayflower Group board

Victorian Not For Profit aged care provider The Mayflower Group has appointed two new board members, Catherine Nance and Adjunct Professor Alan Lilly, effective 1 July 2024. Catherine Nance has more than 20 years’ experience in the financial sector...

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Caroline Egan

08 Aug 2024

Sector Expert Partners

“Everyone works in sales”: the DCM Institute’s next series of Professional Development Days start in two weeks’ time

Village Management and sales both carry KPIs and legal obligations. This series of workshops will explore the mindset of ‘everyone works in sales,’ focusing on the customer journey and process operators must have in place for success…and...

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Ian Horswill

09 Jul 2024

Sector Expert Partners

The answer every retirement village operator has to prepare for the children of village residents: Westpac Conversations at the Wharf

Hear Daniel Aitchison, CEO of Palm Lake Care; Sean Graham, CEO of retirement village operator Aura Holdings; Jason Eldering, CEO of Southern Cross Care Queensland (pictured right); Kaizaad Mehta, and Adam Crombie (pictured left), Relationship...

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Ian Horswill

09 Jul 2024

Sector Moves & People

Carinity appoints Kevin Griffiths as its new Chief Executive Officer

The Queensland Not For Profit operator of residential aged care, retirement villages, home care, disability support, chaplaincy, alternative education, and youth and family services including counselling, has appointed a new Chief Executive Officer...

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Ian Horswill

30 May 2024