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 strategy

Support 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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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?