CPD Webinar: Configured for Success – Clinical Seating Strategies for Safer Transfers

What You’ll Learn

• How to configure seating for optimal transfer safety using real-world OT principles
• When recliner style seating is appropriate, and how to adjust it for sit-to-stand, hoist, or assisted transfers
• The latest updates to the Configura Chair range, including transfer enhancing features
• Seating strategies for clients with decreased core strength, reduced mobility, or cognitive challenges
• How to support pressure care, postural support, and mobility with an all in one seating system
• Practical examples and a live demo with sit-to-stand aids, hoists, and manual handling tools
• Interactive Q&A and case study discussions

Why This Webinar Matters

In transfer focused care, seating is often the make-or-break factor. When configured well, it promotes independence, safety, and dignity, but when overlooked, it increases fall risk, manual handling strain, and functional decline.

This webinar is designed to give OTs the confidence and clinical clarity to prescribe recliner seating that works, tailored to both the environment and the client’s transfer capabilities. Whether you're managing high care clients or early mobility, you’ll walk away with real solutions.

What We’ll Cover

• Key considerations for seating that supports transfers
• How recliner chairs can be adapted to assist or enable transfer methods (e.g., hoisting, sit-to-stand, independent transfers)
• Understanding how seat height, depth, tilt, and armrests impact transfer technique
• Clinical updates to the Configura Chair and what’s new in function and fit
• Strategies for configuring seating for clients with reduced trunk control or fatigue
• Use of transfer aids to demonstrate technique, safety, and positioning

See It in Action

You’ll get a practical demonstration of the updated Configura Chair in transfer scenarios:

• With a manual sit-to-stand transfer aid
• Supporting clients with decreased core strength or sitting balance
• Using a hoist for dependent transfers
• Chair setup adjustments to align with client transfer capacity and caregiver safety

🔍 Interactive Case Studies + Live Q&A

We’ll share real OT-led case scenarios across aged care, rehab, and community, showcasing practical applications and measurable outcomes. Then, stay for the live Q&A with Enable Lifecare’s clinical team.