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YANQ's CPLAN announced as finalist in Workforce Innovation Awards

30/7/2013

 
2013 Workforce Innovation Award Finalists Announced

The Health and Community Services Workforce Council has announced its annual shortlist of Queenslanders who are taking innovative approaches to dealing with workforce issues.

A total of 24 organisations and individuals, from the Gold Coast to Cape York, and spanning services including childcare, disability, youth services and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health have been recognised as finalists for the 4th annual Health and Community Services Workforce Innovation Awards.

This year’s finalists have been selected from over 120 nominations across a total of eight categories.

Workforce Council Executive Director Laura Barnes said she is honoured to have the privilege of recognising this year’s best and brightest.

‘Every day millions of Queensland families rely on the care and support offered by the health and community services industry, so it’s incredibly important that we celebrate the efforts of those working hard to improve outcomes for our communities,’ Ms Barnes said.

‘Health and community services employs some 290,000 Queenslanders, which is more than any other industry, and in addition to this is expected to contribute one in every four new jobs created within the state over the next five years. However, it is an industry in which services are often challenged to meet the needs of communities with limited resources which means strategic and creative approaches to workforce planning and development are crucial.

Workforce planning and development typically involves understanding the workforce that is needed to support services into the future - creating effective attraction and retention strategies for organisations, clear training and career progression for employees and developing sustainable partnerships to improve service delivery.

‘The efforts of this year’s finalists serve as excellent examples of innovative workforce practices for all industries.  They demonstrate how combining passion and dedication with a strategic approach to workforce and resourcing challenges can enable services to achieve great outcomes for employees, their organisations and communities.’

Approaches taken by 2013 Award finalists include using advances in technology to overcome issues unique to regional areas, creating successful partnerships with expert groups and facilities, and by building worker capacity through tailored educational programs.

Winners of the 2013 Health and Community Services Workforce Innovation Awards will be announced at a Gala Dinner on Thursday 12 September at Brisbane City Hall.

2013 HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES WORKFORCE INNOVATION AWARD FINALISTS

Category:            ABORIGINAL AND/OR TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER ORGANISATION

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Organisation category recognises innovative efforts by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations to improve their workforce’s capacity to deliver services to their community.

Finalists:              • Apunipima Cape York Health Council
• Institute for Urban Indigenous Health

Category:            COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES

The Collaborative Practices category recognises collaborations between organisations or individuals which lead to more efficient or effective workforce practices. In most cases these improved practices will impact on more than one organisation.

Finalists:              • gr8 START Early Year Partnership - Embedding PEDS in Gold Coast Childcare Centres: A common tool for early identification of developmental delays and parental engagement
• Centacare- Community Services - Brisbane Hoarding and Squalor Working Group
• Lives Lived Well Amalgamation
• Youth Affairs Network of Queensland - Communities of Practice Leaders Action Networks   (CPLAN)

Category:            EDUCATION OR TRAINING PROVIDER 

The Education or Training Provider category recognises innovative approaches to building workforce capacity undertaken by a university, registered training provider or other professional development agent who is working in direct partnership with industry organisations.

Finalists:              • Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland
• Family Planning Queensland and Sunshine Coast TAFE
• Griffith University School of Nursing and Midwifery

Category:            HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Human Resource Management category recognises organisations who have adopted effective human resource practices to attract, retain and skill their staff to achieve positive outcomes in service delivery.

Finalists:              • Department of Justice & Attorney General, Youth Justice Services
• Flexi Queensland
• The Townsville Hospital

Category:            LEARNING CULTURE

The Learning Culture category recognises organisations that promote a culture of learning in the workplace and generate ongoing enthusiasm for discovering and sharing knowledge and practice.

Finalists:              • Charters Towers Neighbourhood Centre Inc.
• Community Solutions Group Ltd
• Department of Justice and Attorney General, Youth Justice Services

Category:            MICHAEL KIRBY AWARD FOR INCLUSIVENESS

The Michael Kirby Award for Inclusiveness category recognises workforce strategies that actively promote principles of equal opportunity and reject discrimination on the grounds of age, race, culture, gender, sexuality, disability or any other basis immaterial to the work in question. This award is named after the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, former Justice of the High Court of Australia, in thanks for his support of the Awards and his role in promoting diversity and advancing social justice.

Finalists:              • Flexi Queensland
• Lives Lived Well (QLD Drug and Alcohol Council Inc.)
• Tropical North Queensland TAFE

Category:            RURAL AND REMOTE SETTING

The Rural and Remote Setting category recognises organisations which are operating in a rural or remote setting and are taking innovative approaches to workforce planning, workforce development and/or workforce management.

Finalists:              • Apunipima Cape York Health Council
• Flexi Queensland
• The Townsville Hospital

Category:            WORKFORCE CHAMPION

The Workforce Champion category recognises an individual for their outstanding contribution to the development and/or implementation of strategies which have improved the skill, quality and/or capacity of their organisation’s workforce.

Finalists:              • Bernadette Lee (Blue Care)
• Brenda-Anne Parfitt (Flexi Queensland)
• Tony Jamison (Department of Justice and Attorney General, Youth Justice Services)

MEDIA ENQUIRIES

For more information on the 2013 Health and Community Services Workforce Innovation Awards including details of the organisations and practices being nominated, please contact the Workforce Council Marketing and Communications Team:  07 3405 6771.


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