Consulting

Consultancy for Quality, Safe and Person-Centred Health Support

Jayne Lehmann supports disability organisations to strengthen the way they plan, govern and deliver health and diabetes support. Drawing on more than 40 years of nursing and diabetes experience, together with extensive expertise at the intersection of health and disability, Jayne helps organisations translate clinical requirements into practical, person-centred systems that work in everyday support environments.

Through consultancy, education and service review, Jayne can assist organisations to identify health-related risks, clarify roles and responsibilities, strengthen policies and documentation, build workforce capability and improve communication between support workers, health professionals, participants and families. Her specialist expertise includes diabetes support, high intensity supports, complex health needs, cognitive disability and the development of individualised systems that promote quality, safety, dignity and choice.

Jayne’s approach goes beyond compliance. She works with organisations to create sustainable governance structures and practical support systems that reduce preventable harm, improve staff confidence and help people with disability receive equitable access to safe, responsive and high-quality healthcare.

Consulting Skills

  • More than 40 years of nursing and diabetes experience
  • Specialist expertise at the intersection of disability, diabetes and healthcare
  • Health governance, clinical governance and organisational risk management
  • Development of quality and safety systems for health-related supports
  • Diabetes assessment, planning and management for people with complex support needs
  • High intensity support assessment and implementation
  • Person-centred health and diabetes support planning
  • Translation of clinical recommendations into practical disability support strategies
  • Identification and management of preventable health risks
  • Policy, procedure and practice guideline development
  • Workforce capability assessment and development
  • Education and training for support workers, nurses, health professionals and organisational leaders
  • Review and improvement of health documentation, incident reporting and escalation processes
  • Development of clear roles, responsibilities and accountability frameworks
  • Support to meet NDIS Practice Standards and quality and safeguarding requirements
  • Collaboration across participants, families, support teams, clinicians and service providers
  • Accessible communication and low-literacy health resource development
  • Trauma-informed, rights-based and culturally responsive practice
  • Strategic advice informed by clinical expertise, lived experience and disability advocacy
  • Service review, gap analysis and practical improvement planning
  • Mentoring and capability building for nurses and Credentialled Diabetes Educators
  • Design of sustainable systems that improve consistency, confidence and continuity of support
  • Strong advocacy for health equity and the rights of people with cognitive disability to receive quality and safe healthcare
2017 Jayne presenting

Here’s some of the organisations Jayne has worked with in the past. 

You can read a profile on Jayne’s work the Flinders University of South Australia published in November 2017! 

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Jayne is a NDIS Provider in all states and territories except for (WA and NT) as a Community Nurse.

NDIS eligible services include:

Preparation of a Diabetes Management Plan

Education of support workers via the online Diabetes Care in the Community course for disability support workers, including the support and administration of insulin injections. Click here to find out more.

Who should use these services?

  • Aged care and residential care organisations
  • Community pharmacy and retail pharmacy groups
  • Credentialled Diabetes Educators in private practice
  • Diabetes care and support organisations
  • Disability care and support organisations
  • Diabetes Technology companies
  • Exercise industry
  • Government and non government instrumentalities and organisations
  • Health care professional staff education businesses
  • Print and social media publications
  • Pharmaceutical organisations
  • Universities and higher education organisations.

Email Jayne to find out more.