Department of Human Services
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Kim SykesDirectorService and Workforce Planning
2007 Partnerships for World Graduates Conference
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• Why workforce planning?
• What should we be doing?
• Why should we be doing it together?
Victoria in 2016Victoria in 2016
• Total workforce+18 per cent
• Health and community services workforce+37 per cent
• Health service demand+54 per cent
Workforce strategyWorkforce strategySupport increased capacity for high quality training across acute and non-acute settings
Expand overseas recruitment and use of locally trained international students
Expand strategies to encourage re-entry
Better align clinical placement funding to activity
Fund growth in early graduate positions
Expand recruitment and retention strategies in priority services and occupations
Establish alternative approaches to management & allocation of early graduation & vocational training positions
Fund projects to design and influence curriculum
Support skills mix projects
Expand training and utilisation of certificate trained staff
Fund local workforce innovation projects which pilotwork roles and/or design
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Short term Medium term Long term
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ChangesChanges
• Education• Regulation - Health Professions
Registration Act 2005• COAG communiqué• National Health Workforce Taskforce• Service delivery
DiversityDiversity
• Generational- Veterans
- Baby boomers - Generation X - Generation Y• Language• Cultural
Future focusFuture focus
Government prioritiesGovernment priorities
• Changing care in a changing world• Chronic disease management• Diabetes• Cancer• Mental health• Prevention and early intervention
Future directionsFuture directions
• Service delivery settings• Community based partnerships• Referral patterns• Role of support staff• Innovation• Preventative health initiatives • Screening and early intervention• Use of technology• Team based interdisciplinary approaches
Future directionsFuture directions
• Thoughtfully make the case for change• Use evidence, understand the issue • Respond to:
health services - their issues and constraints, emerging trends, the Victorian community’s future needs,the potential workforce.
Who?Who?