Target-sector: Allied Health

Online Training
Palliative Care Training for Care Workers working with people living with Dementia

Palliative Care Training for Care Workers working with people living with Dementia Initiate conversations about advance care planning with people living with different stages of dementia. Empower and prepare families…

Online Training
Infection Prevention and Control eLearning Modules

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has developed a suite of eLearning modules to provide information on the principles of infection prevention and control in Australian healthcare…

Attraction, Case Study, Learning, Recruitment, Toolkit
The Allied Health Assistants Good Practice Guide

An evidence-based guide for employers on introducing Allied Health Assistants to the workforce to deliver quality NDIS services. The Allied Health Assistants Good Practice Guide is here to help your…

Attraction, Recruitment, Retention, Toolkit
Allied Health Workforce Resource

NDS offers a wide range of useful workforce resources that support disability services to respond to challenges in the disability workforce. These Allied Health Workforce Resources have been developed to…

Attraction, Learning, Recruitment, Retention
RecruitAble: A pilot for the employment of people with disability

The goal of RecruitAble is to create a successful model for the employment of people with disability through mainstream recruitment companies and industry. The goal is to reduce the employment…

Attraction, Learning
Indigenous health scholarships

The Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship Scheme (PHMSS) is designed to encourage and assist undergraduate students in health-related disciplines to complete their studies and join the health workforce. The scheme provides…

Case Study, Learning, Research, Retention, Toolkit
WorkWell Toolkit: Helping workplace leaders create mentally healthy workplaces

WorkSafe's WorkWell Program supports workplace leaders to prevent mental injury and promote safe and mentally healthy workplaces by providing access to tools and resources, funding and networking opportunities. The WorkWell…

Research
Findings from the sector: The Human Services Workforce Forum report

The HSSO mandate is to find sector solutions to attracting and skilling a pipeline of potential employees to meet the needs of the nation’s employers as and when they need…

Attraction, Learning, Recruitment, Retention
School-based traineeships in human services

This case study illustrates the way school-based traineeships can attract young people to human services and help employers to build their future workforce. Mabel Park State High School, itself an…

Attraction, Learning, Recruitment, Retention
Building a Skilled Workforce: A guide to VET for Human Services Employers

The challenge of building a skilled workforce is a pressing one for the human services. The HSSO has designed this guide to help employers and managers in these industry sectors…

Learning, Online Training
Understanding Dementia

The Understanding Dementia is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), offering university-quality education about the latest in dementia research and care. This free course provides an opportunity to engage with…

Research
Tasmanian Allied Health Disability Workforce Project

NDS in Tasmania received NDIS Sector Development Funding from the Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services to develop and implement strategies to increase the supply, utilisation and capability of…

Research
ASQA's Regulatory Risk Priorities for 2021-22

This online resource outlines ASQA’s Regulatory Risk Priorities for 2021–22. ASQA updates these priorities regularly to ensure they are responding to the most current issues in the sector. ASQA uses…

Attraction, Recruitment
Community Services Gateway to Industry Schools Project

The Community Services Gateway to Industry Schools project aims to provide schools the resources to inform students about the range of careers and pathways in the Community Services Sector. Purpose…

Attraction, Recruitment, Research
Allied Health Assistants Workforce Development Project

The Allied Health Assistants (AHA) Project is delivered by Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect).  Aspect is Australia’s largest autism-specific service provider.  A not-for-profit organisation, Aspect work in partnership with people of…

Research
Developing Allied Health Assistants in a rural area using a hub and spoke model

The 'Hub & Spoke Model' project was developed and delivered by Anglicare Tasmania.  Anglicare Tasmania provides disability services for people across Tasmania.  Anglicare Tasmania based this project in the Derwent…

Research
The Allied Health Rural Generalist Pathway | Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health

The Rural Allied & Community Health Team in Gayndah (Wide Bay HHS) has participated in state-wide trials since 2014 of the Allied Health Rural Generalist Pathway, including redesign of existing…

Check Up - Grow your Own Workforce

The Grow Your Own web-based resource is part of a collaborative partnership between CheckUP Australia and Queensland Health’s Workforce Strategy Branch (WSB). It forms part of a broader health education to employment pathways project which…

Attraction, Recruitment
Community Services Job Match

Job Match is a Community Services Industry Alliance project. The Job Match site provides an online meeting place for Community Services Industry employers and Job Seekers. The site enables: those…

Research
National Workplace Initiative (Mental Health)

In the 2019-20 Federal Budget the Government announced an investment of $11.5 million over four years for the National Workplace Initiative (NWI). The NWI provides a nationally consistent approach to…

Attraction, Recruitment
Allied Health Capability Framework: Disability and Complex Support Needs (Vic)

'The Allied Health Capability Framework: Disability and Complex Support Needs (Vic)' provides allied health professionals with guidance about working ethically and collaboratively across professions and service systems. With this guidance,…

Attraction, Research
Victoria’s Health Workforce Knowledge Bank

Victoria’s Health and Human Services Workforce Information Portal brings together a range of information about Victoria’s health and human services workforce. This information can be used by stakeholders for planning,…

Learning, Research, Retention
Mental Health Professional Online Development (MHPOD)

Mental Health Professional Online Development (MHPOD) is an online professional development resource for Australia’s broad public mental health workforce. MHPOD provides access to various learning and development resources through the…

Research
Credentialing, Competency and Capability Framework

The Allied Health Credentialing, Competency and Capability Framework (Vic) provides guidance to allied health managers and clinicians in developing structures and processes needed to build an effective workforce through: appropriate…

Attraction, Case Study, Recruitment
IAHA National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Academy

The IAHA National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Academy is an Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA) initiative. The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Academy is an innovative,…

Attraction, Research
Industry Skills Advisory (ISA) program – Health (QLD)

CheckUP has been engaged by the Department of Employment, Small Business and Training (QLD) as the Industry Skills Advisor (ISA) for Health. As the ISA for health CheckUP will engage…

Attraction, Learning, Research, Retention
Emerging Leaders’ Framework

The ACT Council of Social Service (ACTCOSS) Emerging Leaders Framework is for emerging leaders, their organisations and system leaders. For emerging leaders, it defines who emerging leaders are, offers an…

Research
The Impact of COVID-19 on industry Innovation and need for skills

The 'Impact of COVID-19 on Industry Innovation and Need for Skills Report' was produced by National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). Innovation can offer a pathway to economic recovery…

Research
Industry's role in VET governance: using international insights to inform new practices

The 'Industry’s role in VET governance: using international insights to inform new practices' summary was produced by National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). Industry representation and governance in the…

Research
Innovative workforce growth in thin markets

The Monash University Project titled 'Innovative workforce growth in thin markets: Piloting use of mixed digital and face-to-face workforce development to scale capacity building supports with NDIS participants in Tasmania' was…

Retention, Toolkit
Allied Health Workforce Resource

NDS have developed a range of Allied Health Resource to assist the sector to meet the challenge of ensuring a sustainable Allied Health Workforce. Resources Include: Skills and knowledge Benchmark…