Department of Health

Appendix 3: Long-term strategy outcomes

Increase supply of priority roles

  • Increase supply of priority roles and close projected workforce shortage gaps.
  • Increase retention of health workers in priority roles by 20% at 10 years post qualification.
  • Increase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representation equal to the Victorian population.
  • Increase university places, clinical supervisory capacity, and clinical placements through a more integrated education pipeline.

Strengthen rural and regional workforces

  • Improve workforce supply and distribution for equitable service delivery to rural and regional locations.
  • Increase clinical placements and supervision capacity in rural and regional locations by 20% for increased local talent pipelines.
  • Develop innovative funding and employment models that enable increased service delivery to rural and regional locations.

Improve employee experience

  • Reduce the public health service staff separation rate by 10%.
  • Reduce public health service WorkSafe claims by 10%.
  • Improve public health sector employee sentiment by 20% in psychological and physical safety, wellbeing, workload, learning and development, and leadership.

Build future roles and capabilities

  • Establish 9 future roles to create additional capacity in the healthcare system, support new models of care, and improve pathways.
  • Develop innovative education models for career agility including re-skilling pathways across professions.
  • Increase supply of 20 standardised advanced roles to improve the ability of existing roles to operate to the top of scope.
  • Increase cross-skilling programs for integrated and person-centred transdisciplinary care.

Leverage digital, data and technology

  • Enable modern digitally enabled workplaces supported with guidance on digital best practice.
  • Increase data-led public-sector workforce planning and policy for Victoria, and contribute to improved national healthcare workforce planning.

Reviewed 11 February 2024

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