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Case Studies

Vacenti is a quality aged care and senior living provider based in South-East Queensland for more than 40 years. The Aged Care sector faces many workforce challenges in the attraction, training, and retention of staff often reliant upon recent graduates of government funded training programs. The sourcing and onboarding of staff is often a continuous process faced with quality and retention issues.

Redland Hospital is the major health centre for Redland City and Brisbane’s southern bayside suburbs. Care is provided across a number of specialties including general medicine and surgery, cardiology, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, orthopaedics, renal dialysis and paediatrics.

Queensland Health developed a school-based traineeship program for Logan area high schools to provide an avenue to non-clinical career opportunities and alternative school to employment pathways into the health sector for year 11 and 12 students.

QEll Jubilee Hospital found it time-consuming and challenging to find good candidates for entry-level Operational Support Officer roles.

UnitingCare Queensland is a health and community services provider, and one of the largest charities in Australia.

CentacareCQ is a social services agency with a considerable geographical coverage area, including areas of socio-economic disadvantage.

Counties Manukau in South Auckland is the fastest growing district in New Zealand. It is multi-ethnic, but minorities are severely under-represented in the health workforce.

Strawberry farmers in the Moreton Bay and Sunshine Coast regions were at risk of not being able to access a reliable, sustainable and capable workforce.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities experience poorer health and subsequently have a shorter life expectancy than non-indigenous populations in Australia.

Liverpool Clinical Laboratories was experiencing recruitment and retention difficulties with appointments of Biomedical Science post graduates into Support Worker roles.

Logan is a metropolitan area in South East Queensland facing a number of workforce and health delivery challenges. Globally we are facing a rise in chronic disease which could be considered the largest healthcare challenge of the 21st century.