Sarah Barter
Community Care Consultant
Sarah is passionate about supporting a vibrant, purpose-driven care sector in Australia that supports people to live the best life they can in their home and community.
Having worked for more than 15 years in diverse roles across the health, aged and social care sectors in Australia, Sarah supports smaller organisations to deliver and oversee high quality, coordinated, person-centred care. Sarah’s skillset is at the interface of strategy, governance, stakeholder engagement and quality management. Sarah is most at home speaking with diverse stakeholders to inform strategic direction and identify opportunities to improve care delivery. She loves facilitating workshops having further developed her skills teaching primary ethics at her son’s Primary School!
Capabilities
People, culture and wellbeing
- resilience and trauma prevention
- psychological safety at work training
Strategy, risk and governance
- strategic planning / review / retreats
- constitution and governance reviews
- risk management strategy / implementation
- risk review / audit
- stakeholder management
Stakeholder engagement
- stakeholder management
- community engagement
Insights and impact
- market research
- data collaboration
- evaluation
- community Needs Assessment
Transformation and change
- organisational change management
- stakeholder analysis
- workshop facilitation
Clients
GoCo Community Care
Carexcell
Health Consumers NSW
Myrtle Cottage
Shine for Kids
Qualifications and recognition
BA (Psych)/ LLB, MPH
GAICD
Certified Quality and Occupational Health and Safety
Management Systems Lead Auditor
Board Director, Sydney North Health Network
Consumer Advisor, Northern Sydney Local Health District
Independent Advisor, Karitane
