Healthy Workforce

Aim:

To ensure our workforce continues to be responsive to local, national and international workforce pressures we have appropriate workforce planning tools to be able to prepare and respond to future workforce demands.

A strategic workforce plan has been developed to address health workforce issues, and aims to ensure that workforce shortages are minimised, opportunities are provided for training and professional development and that a high standard of knowledge and skills is achieved and recognised.

We Commit To:

• Developing and deploying a statewide strategic workforce plan.
• Establishing a vibrant and positive workplace and system culture.
• Attracting and retaining people in our public health system through:
  
  
  • Reducing / eliminating competition between health services; and
  • Improving rewards, benefits, recognition, incentives and working conditions.
• Promoting workforce innovation through:
  
  
  • Workforce redesign – doing healthcare differently;
  • Job redesign – new types of healthcare workers;
  • Deploying new technology in new workforce design;
  • Investing in workforce development and training; and
  • Developing integrated clinical networks across the health system.