Right People, Right Skills DHS workforce design strategy

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Right People, Right SkillsDHS workforce design
strategy
Jennifer Colbert Service Workforce Planning
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Human services workforce Key challenges

• Factors impacting workforce supply
• Changing workforce demographics
• Changing working patterns mobility
• Shrinking pool of workforce entrants
• Increasing specialisation entrenched
  professional silos lead to fragmentation of
  care
• Factors influencing workforce demand
• Increasing service demand
• Changing technology and evolving models of care
• Increasing client complexity

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Human services workforce Enablers for change

• Getting national/state/local approaches
  outcomes
• Engaging with the VET, tertiary post tertiary
  education sectors
• Overcoming professional/industrial legacies
• Adjusting workforce expectations
• Acceptance of learning from overseas
• Getting investment in workforce development
• Willingness to embrace change

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National workforcestrategic framework

• Established to guide national investment in
  health workforce
• Allows better identification of workforce
  priorities that would benefit from national
  approaches
• Provides capacity to promote collaboration
  between jurisdictions and reduce duplication
• Work plan for 2004-05 includes
• Nationally consistent medical registration
  project
• AMWAC Studies in surgical specialties
• Alternative workforce planning approaches
• Improving workforce data

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Developing a Victorian action plan

• Key areas to be progressed include
• Increase workforce supply
• Improve workforce distribution
• Improve workforce data analysis
• Explore opportunities for role redesign
• Combination of short, medium and long term
  strategies required

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Health workforceStrategies solutions
Short term
Medium term
Long term
Attract locally trained international students
Improve
Supplement existing overseas recruitment
strategies
workforce
Expand strategies to encourage re
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entry
supply
Increase funding for clinical placements
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Fund growth in early graduate positions
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Improve
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Establish alternative approaches to management

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workforce
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allocation of early graduate

vocational training positions
distribution
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Expand recruitment

retention strategies in priority services

occupations
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Fund projects to design
influence curriculum
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Redesign
Support skills mix projects
the
Expand training utilisation of certificate
trained staff
workforce
Fund local workforce innovation projects which
pilot
work roles /or design
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Workforce StrategiesIntegration
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Role review designPrinciples

• All role changes should improve the patient
  journey through the health care system
• Ideally, follow on from service review
• Allow professional staff to work at their
  training level delegate technical and
  irrelevant work
• Expand use of trained support staff
• Maintain safety and quality

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Role review designEducation training

• Improve liaison with higher education VET
  sectors tailor curricula to roles
• Explore alternative education models deliver
  skilled workers more efficiently
• Encourage articulation between VET higher ed
  career paths and career flexibility

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Role review designSkills mix projects

• Undertake statewide pilots to identify effective
  approaches and tools
• Support local innovation, existing and proposed
• Priorities for 2004-05
•          Extended roles for allied health
  assistants
•          Support roles in acute care
•          Support roles in rehabilitation
•          Extended roles in eye care (building on
  the VictorianOphthalmology Services Service
  Planning Framework
•          Support and professional roles in
  mental health
•          Extended allied health professional
  roles.

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Role review designMethodology
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Role review designGovernance
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Role review designGoing forward

• More information please forums, visits to
  services
• Call for expression of interest from health
  services for redesign pilots
• Communication, consultation ongoing liaison
  with stakeholders
• Formation of reference groups teams
• Development of redesign tools

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DHS workforce design strategyInterested?
Questions?
Contact Email jennifer.colbert_at_dhs.vic.gov.au Ph
one 03 9616 7872