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ACH Group’s Student Placement Team won the Team Innovation category of the 2019 HESTA Aged Care Awards in recognition of its strategy to improve the experience students have during their university placements at ACH Group. Read more >

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Welcome to the ACH Group student placement information web page that supports communication regarding student placements for both educators and students.

ACH Group values a learning culture and we use an Interprofessional Learning (IPL) approach for student placements, which is when two or more professions (eg: a nurse and a physiotherapist) work together to learn and reflect about their professions’ similarities and differences. ACH Group believes an IPL approach to learning improves communication, collaboration, reduces risk of practising in isolation and ultimately improves the quality of care.

More than 900 students participate in work placements each year, and in 2018/19, 20 per cent of care staff employed came from student placements.

Information for Educators

Please click here for more information about our Student Placement program and how to submit a request for a placement.

Information for Students

If you are seeking a placement with ACH Group, your training provider will need to complete a request directly via this link. ACH Group does not accept student placement requests made by individuals at this time.

 

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What is the best experience you've ever had on your birthday?

Dianne and Brian had an encounter like no other when they were invited on stage with Dame Edna back in 1999, on what happened to be Dianne’s birthday.

Brian shared this story as part of an intergenerational project between Tatachilla Lutheran College students and Perry Park Residential Care Home residents. In this project, students get to know the residents by creating videos about what they learned about them.

Here's what Brian recalls:

“The kids bought us the tickets, and we loved it. What we didn’t know was that they had bought tickets for the front row. So we made it through the first half, and then the second half began. They announced they wanted a couple to come on stage.

And they picked the two of us, for whatever reason, I do not know. It was Dianne’s birthday, so we got up on stage, with twelve hundred people looking at us. I was thinking, 'I hope there’s no one in this crowd that knows me.' We were served a meal; Dame Edna ordered spaghetti Bolognese. Whatever you do, do not eat spaghetti Bolognese in front of twelve hundred people!

We stayed on stage for the second half of the show. It was fun because Dianne ended up with a kiss on her cheek from Barry Humphries, everyone wished her a happy birthday. After the show, we went for a coffee, and everyone kept recognising us, asking if we had been on stage. Needless to say, it was a night to remember, and we got home quite late, at 1am.”

What a story! Thanks, Brian and Dianne, for sharing. We’re sending our Happy Birthday wishes to Dianne at Perry Park today. 🎂🥳 🥂
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What is the best experience youve ever had on your birthday? 

Dianne and Brian had an encounter like no other when they were invited on stage with Dame Edna back in 1999, on what happened to be Dianne’s birthday.

Brian shared this story as part of an intergenerational project between Tatachilla Lutheran College students and Perry Park Residential Care Home residents. In this project, students get to know the residents by creating videos about what they learned about them.

Heres what Brian recalls:

“The kids bought us the tickets, and we loved it. What we didn’t know was that they had bought tickets for the front row. So we made it through the first half, and then the second half began. They announced they wanted a couple to come on stage.

And they picked the two of us, for whatever reason, I do not know. It was Dianne’s birthday, so we got up on stage, with twelve hundred people looking at us. I was thinking, I hope there’s no one in this crowd that knows me. We were served a meal; Dame Edna ordered spaghetti Bolognese. Whatever you do, do not eat spaghetti Bolognese in front of twelve hundred people!

We stayed on stage for the second half of the show. It was fun because Dianne ended up with a kiss on her cheek from Barry Humphries, everyone wished her a happy birthday. After the show, we went for a coffee, and everyone kept recognising us, asking if we had been on stage. Needless to say, it was a night to remember, and we got home quite late, at 1am.”

What a story! Thanks, Brian and Dianne, for sharing. We’re sending our Happy Birthday wishes to Dianne at Perry Park today. 🎂🥳 🥂