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Become a Life! facilitator
*Please note that we are undertaking a comprehensive program content update and will not run Facilitator training for another 12 months while this is underway.
More than 150 health professionals across Victoria are taking extra steps to improve their community’s wellbeing by delivering the Life! program.
Apply to become a facilitator today!
Who can apply to become a Life! facilitator?
Our Life! facilitators come from a variety of allied health backgrounds and include exercise physiologists, physiotherapists, nurses (div 1 and 2), dieticians and other eligible professions. To become a Life! facilitator, health professionals need to have:
- Current and appropriate qualifications
- Professional experience in group facilitation
- Established relationships with primary health care, community health and allied health practitioners
- Demonstrated capacity to engage participants who may be eligible for the Life! program
Health professionals must have an affiliation with a Life! provider (organisation), or be registered as a private provider with a supporting ABN number.
Are you passionate about preventing type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke?
We are now taking expressions of interest from health professionals to be trained to deliver the Life! program group course. The Life! program group course includes 7 sessions with participants over 12 months to support them to achieve their health goals. In Metro Victoria group courses are delivered fully online due to COVID-19. In rural and regional locations facilitators may deliver the program face-to-face providing Diabetes Victoria’s requirements for face-to-face delivery have been met.
We accept applications from registered health professionals from a range of backgrounds, including dietitians, nurses (Div. 1), exercise physiologists and physiotherapists amongst others. Applicants will be required to have completed core training with Health Change Australia. Relevant experience and skills in group facilitation applied behaviour change and motivational interviewing would be highly regarded.
Looking for provider and telephone health coaching information? Check out the provider application and telephone health coaching application here.
Express your interest to become a Life! facilitator
For more information please contact the Life! team
A Life! Facilitator Success Story
The Life! program is a fantastic and rewarding program for participants and is very fulfilling to run.
Say hello to Luke a Life! program coach
