RMIT Industry Forum Kim Sykes Director Service and

RMIT Industry Forum Kim Sykes Director Service and Workforce Planning 2007 Partnerships for World Graduates Conference Department of Human Services

RMIT Industry Forum • Why workforce planning? • What should we be doing? • Why should we be doing it together?

Victoria in 2016 • Total workforce +18 per cent • Health and community services workforce +37 per cent • Health service demand +54 per cent

Workforce strategy Short term Medium term Long term Support increased capacity for high quality training across acute and non-acute settings Health workforce Improve workforce supply Expand strategies to encourage re-entry Expand overseas recruitment and use of locally trained international students Better align clinical placement funding to activity Fund growth in early graduate positions Improve Workforce distribution Establish alternative approaches to management & allocation of early graduation & vocational training positions Expand recruitment and retention strategies in priority services and occupations Fund projects to design and influence curriculum Redesign the workforce Support skills mix projects Expand training and utilisation of certificate trained staff Fund local workforce innovation projects which pilot work roles and/or design

Changes • Education • Regulation - Health Professions Registration Act 2005 • COAG communiqué • National Health Workforce Taskforce • Service delivery

Diversity • Generational - Veterans - Baby boomers - Generation X - Generation Y • Language • Cultural

Future focus

Government priorities • Changing care in a changing world • Chronic disease management • Diabetes • Cancer • Mental health • Prevention and early intervention

Future 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 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.

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