Keeping Our Sector Strong – Victoria’s Workforce Plan for the NDIS

Keeping our sector strong: Victoria’s workforce plan for the NDIS is Victoria’s plan to build the disability workforce of the future: a workforce that is skilled, diverse and dynamic, delivering high-quality, innovative support to achieve the best possible outcomes for people with disability.

Identified Priorities:

1. Understanding workforce needs – Work with the disability sector to build a comprehensive picture of the Victorian disability workforce, training and skill needs, and how the NDIS will affect the workforce over time.
2. Supporting regions to be NDIS-ready – Resource Victoria’s communities to develop place-based responses to local workforce challenges and opportunities.
3. Supporting staff through transition – Support the current workforce to transition and thrive in the NDIS context with access to relevant training opportunities, information and resources they need to understand what the NDIS means for them.
4. Targeting quality training – Undertake a range of projects to ensure quality in the content and delivery of accredited training, and better student outcomes in disability-related courses.
5. Achieving excellence in research and education – Funding for the new Future Social Service Institute to drive world-leading education, training and research for the disability and broader social services sector.
6. Promoting best practice support – Work with the disability sector and across service systems to promote best practice support for participants with high and complex needs and behaviours of concern.
7. Building allied health capacity – Build capacity and capability in the Victorian allied health workforce to meet growing demand for allied health services for people with disability.
8. Promoting the sector – Deliver targeted strategies to attract and retain people from a range of backgrounds to careers in the disability sector.
9. Measuring our progress – Measure and monitor the impact and effectiveness of the plan to meet our objectives.

The ‘plan’ and other relevant information can be accessed by following the weblink provided.