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RMIT Industry Forum. Kim Sykes Director Service and Workforce Planning 2007 Partnerships for World Graduates Conference. 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
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RMIT Industry Forum Kim Sykes Director Service and Workforce Planning 2007 Partnerships for World Graduates Conference
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+54per cent
Workforce strategy Short term Medium term Long term Support increased capacity for high quality training across acute and non-acute settings 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 Health workforce 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
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.