We are developing a new workforce strategy to support our current workforce and develop our workforce of the future.
As the experts in what works for you and your teams, you provided fantastic feedback and helped us shape a plan for our people.
We are already taking action to support this plan in several ways while we continue to craft future actions.
Delivery underway with our first-year actions
As we work to understand more and shape our workforce and workplace for the future, we are also taking action now.
Here are just a few of the actions we’re already undertaking this year:
- Review and develop policies and guidelines supporting flexible working.
- Develop safety and wellbeing initiatives that make Monash Health a happier, safer and healthier place to work through the ‘BeWell’ program and the health, safety and wellbeing strategy.
- Implement the ten targeted workforce initiatives focused on retention (as below).
Initial and targeted workforce initiatives
10 initiatives focusing on recruitment, retention, education, and helping people grow and progress their careers will help professional groups with significant workforce needs. They include:
Allied Health:
- New clinical educator roles, leading to increased allied health workforce education to stabilise and expand the workforce pipeline, retain recruits, and create additional career pathways.
Pharmacy:
- An enhanced clinical educator program for the development of early career pharmacists and pharmacists transitioning from community pharmacy.
- An aseptic compounding educator role.
- Developing an advanced training residency program.
Nursing and Midwifery:
- A bespoke frontline leadership development program to upskill over 700 associate nursing and midwifery managers.
Mental Health:
- Recruitment and retention of mental health workforce; implement strategies to retain, train and develop early career medical, nursing, allied health and psychology workforces.
Junior Medical Staff:
- Improving attraction and retention of IMGs by improving visa sponsorship practices and individual learning programs for IMGs
Imaging:
- Robust clinical education delivery enabling high quality throughout care delivery, improving employee satisfaction and retention, and creating growth pathways for our people.
Monitoring of benefits and outcomes for these initiatives will occur quarterly. Stay tuned over the coming months as we share the stories and details about these initiatives and how they are testing new ideas and models, which may be applied more broadly.
We know you have more to say
This year, your answers in the People Matter survey will feed into our Workforce Strategy and its future initiatives, so stay tuned and have your say from 16 October.
Approved by Chris McLoughlin, Executive Director, People and Culture