Workforce sustainability in regional and rural networks

NGO Regional Quarterly Forums, August/September 2010 round

Purpose of workshop

1. Provide a brief overview of the Compact Workforce Development Initiative

2. Introduce you to representatives from:– Health and Community Services Workforce Council– Community Services Skilling Plan

3. Work together to identify:– priority workforce capability and sustainability issues in the

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Queensland Compact Goals

Working together to:

• Build strong working relationships

• Improve engagement in planning and policy

• Improve the sector’s capacity and sustainability

• Continue to improve service quality and innovation

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Compact Action Plan Commitments

Working together to: ‘Support the development of a sustainable

human services workforce focusing on attracting, retaining and training a high-quality workforce’

(item 3.1.1)

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Compact Governance Committee (CGC) Priorities 2010

‘Give priority to analysing the range of existing state and national workforce development and volunteering initiatives to identify gaps impacting Queenslanders, and to support the development of strategies which address these gaps’.

Compact Annual Report 2009

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Compact Workforce Development Initiative

Joint Govt and Sector

Strategies

Government led Strategies

Sector led Strategies

DoC Strategies

Statewide consultations-Workforce challenges

- Priorities -Possible solutions

Literature Review- Profile of the sector

- Supply and demand issues -Recommendations

for future

Mapping and analysis of

existing initiatives

August – October 2010 November 2010 2011 - 2015

CGCReport and

Recommendations

Report synthesising: consultation data literature review

map of existing initiatives recommended responses

Other Strategies

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Peak body role: lead workforce development & innovation in Community Services and Health

industries

• Statewide Strategies– Skills Alliance– Health Skills Formation Strategy– Community Mental Health Skills

Formation Strategy

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• Regional Projects– Integrated Skills Development

Strategy– Disability Sector Training Fund– Professional Support Coordinator

QLD

The Community Services Skilling Plan

1. Statewide VET Delivery

2. Indigenous Mentoring Program

3. Cross Cultural Practice Development Strategy

4. Vocational Training Assistance Grant

5. Service Practitioners’ Development Grant

6. Educators’ and Trainers’ Fellowship Grants

7. Sector Engagement & Service Development

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Utilises a community development approach and provides:

A range of strategies to supportVocational Education and Trainingopportunities (VET) in the communityservices sector.

Initiatives that are available through VET (TAFE institutes & other Registered Training Organisations)

A suite of grants and scholarships to enhance industry capacity

Encourages sector workers to form communities of practice to respond to individual, community, regional and statewide needs

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10 workforce issues (draft)• Recruiting, retaining and training

qualified paid staff • Increasing effective service

provision to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) populations

• Recruiting, training, managing and retaining volunteers

• Increased demand for assistant and advanced practitioner roles

• Labour shortages in rural and remote areas

• Need to build management and leadership capacity

• Increased complexity of client need • Focus on integrated service delivery models

• Increasing effective service provision to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

• Shift towards service models that emphasise prevention, primary, community and home based services

Workshop

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Issues Strengths and opportunities

Action required to address the priorities identified

Provide an example(s) which demonstrates the impact of the issues on

the region

Describe existing strengths that could be

harnessed to respond to these issues

Local

Identify what can be done across the region and within

existing resources to respond to these

issues

Bigger Picture

Propose additional actions that need to

occur to further respond to the issues (this may be at a statewide and

system level).

Priority 1:Example (s)

Priority 2:Example (s)

Priority 3:Example (s)

Workshop ActivityIn small groups (4-6 people)• review the draft list of 10 workforce issues*, and comment on whether

they reflect the priorities for this region• prioritise the top 3 issues that impact most significantly on services in

the region• for the top 3 issues work as a group to:

– Provide an example(s) which demonstrates the impact of the issues on the region– Describe existing strengths that could be harnessed to respond to these issues– Identify what can be done across the region and within existing resources to respond

to these issues– Propose additional actions that need to occur to further respond to the issues (this

may be at a statewide and system level).

• Sharing ideas: group feedback and wrap up

* The draft list of ‘10 workforce issues’ was developed using national literature and consultations via the South West intersectoral forum in May 2010 10

Next steps• Your input from today’s session will:

– inform regional workforce planning activities– inform the drafting of a report: Seven regions’

workforce development challenges and priorities – possible regional and state-wide solutions

• This draft report will be tested and finalised in consultation with regions

• The final report will be presented to the CGC in November 2010, to inform decision making

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Thank you

• Further Information is available through the Compact Knowledge Hub. Go to: www.communities.qld.gov.au and enter ‘Compact’ and go to the ‘Consultations’ page.

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