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Become a Life! provider.
Information for organisations
More than 100 health organisations across Victoria are taking extra steps to improve their community’s wellbeing by delivering the Life! program.
What is involved?
Life! providers commit their staff and resources to raising community awareness of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke prevention, as well as delivering the Life! program.
Delivering the program Life! providers:
- Must deliver the course to program standards
- Dedicate time to recruiting participants, administration and planning of the Life! program
- Encourage staff to promote the program in the local community
- They can also promote it to local GPs and health professionals to increase referrals
Once an organisation is a registered Life! provider, eligible health professionals within the organisation can apply to deliver the Life! program. Find out how your health professionals can become a Life! facilitator.
What your organisation will receive from us:
- $525 (+GST) for each eligible participant who completes the Life! group course
- Free resources to help you promote the Life! program
- Guidance and support to deliver the Life! program
- Yearly professional development
Who can apply to become a Life! provider?
To become a Life! provider, an organisation will need:
- An ABN
- Public liability and indemnity insurance
- To meet the required program standards
Health professionals can also apply to become a Life! provider if they meet the above requirements.
Become a Life! facilitator
More than 150 health professionals across Victoria are taking extra steps to improve their community’s wellbeing by delivering the Life! program.
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.
Become a Life! Telephone Health Coach
Health professionals across Victoria are helping to prevent type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke by delivering our Life! program through a flexible Telephone Health Coaching service.
The Life! Telephone Health Coaching Service gives participants an opportunity to complete the program at a time and location that suits them.
“It was really convenient for me as getting the calls on Saturdays meant that they didn’t disturb my working week.” – Shun, Life! Telephone Health Coaching participant.
Who can apply to become a Life! Telephone Health Coach?
Our health coaches come from a variety of allied health backgrounds and include exercise physiologists, physiotherapists, nurses (div 1 and 2) and dieticians, amongst other health professions.
Telephone Health Coaches need to demonstrate that they have:
- Qualifications and current registration/accreditation with their relevant peak body
- Proven ability to communicate sensitively and empathetically with people from a variety of backgrounds
- Appropriate counselling techniques (e.g. active listening, motivational interviewing, coaching, problem solving)
- Professional and program knowledge*All Telephone Health Coaches are required to complete training through Health Change Australia and a one-day training day in Melbourne.
What you will receive from us
Telephone Health Coaching providers will receive:
- $350 for each eligible participant who completes Telephone Health Coaching
- Free resources to help you promote the Life! program
- Guidance and support to deliver the Life! program
- Yearly professional development
Express your interest to become a Life! provider
For more information please contact the Life! team
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A Life! program provider success story
To date, the roll out of the Life! program has been our most popular and effective intervention for chronic disease prevention.
Say hello to Nicole French a Life! facilitator at Exercise for Rehabilitation and Health.
Express your interest to become a Life! facilitator
For more information please contact the Life! team
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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
Express your interest in becoming a Telephone Health Coach
For more information please contact the Life! team
