Priority 4 - Enabling our staff
We will support staff to deliver great care, empowering them to learn, grow, innovate and lead.
Staff make an essential contribution to the health of communities across country WA. We are proud of the care, commitment, and passion that staff bring to their work. It is our ambition to establish WACHS as an employer of choice by fostering a distinct WACHS culture, supporting staff to grow, learn, innovate and achieve their potential. We will empower staff to be leaders internally and externally. By doing so, we will ensure we attract and retain the best and brightest from country communities, the city and from outside of WA.
Actions
Foster a distinctive WACHS culture that embodies our values
We are an organisation of more than 10,000 people, working across hundreds of facilities. While each site and region is unique, staff are united by a distinct culture that is underpinned by our core values. We will define what our values mean in practice and empower staff to hold themselves and others to account for their behaviour.
Enable all staff to make informed decisions and to perform at their best
We have outstanding staff across our organisation that are accountable for leading our services, facilities and teams at all levels on a day-today basis. We will support all staff to make informed decisions, by providing access to the right information, ensuring that our internal systems make their job easier, not harder, and there are accessible opportunities to identify and progress innovation. We will ensure that staff have access to training and development opportunities, including development of their leadership capabilities.
Provide a safe and secure workplace
The safety, wellbeing and health of staff is paramount. We will commit to achieving a safe and secure place to work where all staff are free from discrimination and violence. We will foster a culture of respect and embed policies, procedures and proactive programs that enhance staff safety and wellbeing.
Continue our journey to a sustainable workforce built on ‘growing our own’
To deliver the best outcomes for country communities we will create a more sustainable, flexible, and adaptable workforce that reflects the diversity in each of our regions. This will take time however we will define what the future workforce will look like and work in partnership with educational institutions and country communities to establish training and employment pathways that inspire and empower local people to pursue a career in WACHS. We will implement contemporary workforce roles and scope of practice to achieve better health outcomes and service sustainability. Internal training and development pathways will support an innovation and continuous learning culture within the organisation to enable all staff to achieve their growth potential.
Measures of success
- ↑ Participation in targeted leadership management and professional development programs
- ↑ Staff satisfaction and wellbeing measures
- ↓ Staff vacancy rates
- ↑ Teaching and training capacity
- ↑ Visibility of WACHS values
- ↑ Staff safety metrics