Introducing a new report – “Background to the Development of the Health and Disability Kaiāwhina Workforce Action Plan”

September 10th, 2014

We are pleased to introduce a report summarising activity to date on the Kaiāwhina Workforce Action Plan. “Background to the Development of the Health and Disability Kaiāwhina Workforce Action Plan”. The document brings together the stages of phase one: i.e. the purpose and vision, how the action plan came about, framework, domains and outcomes. It…

Kaiāwhina Workforce Action Plan moves into next phase

August 6th, 2014

Following the successful introduction of the Kaiāwhina Action Plan at the Careerforce Workforce Development Conference in May 2014, the domains and outcomes from the Kaiāwhina Action Plan framework have now been endorsed by the Boards of Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ) and Careerforce. HWNZ and Careerforce are working together to develop the Kaiāwhina Workforce Taskforce…

Careerforce Workforce Development Conference – See the Video Presentation

July 1st, 2014

The Kaiawhina Workforce Action Plan was introduced at the Careerforce Workforce Development Conference. It was presented by Richard Westlake, Dr Graeme Benny and Cathy Cooney and can be viewed below:

Kaiāwhina Workforce Action Plan gets thumbs up at the Careerforce Conference

May 25th, 2014

The Health and Disability Kaiāwhina Workforce Action Plan was introduced at the Careerforce Workforce Development Conference, held at Te Papa, Wellington 20-21 May 2014. Presented early in the conference programme, the plan was well received with other conference presenters often making reference to the plan and confirming their support. The Action Plan was introduced by…

Profile of the kaiāwhina workforce

May 7th, 2014

Careerforce commissioned BERL (Business and Economic Research Ltd) to profile the non-regulated health and disability workforce. The resulting report gives insight into the numbers and demographics of the workforce as reported in the 2013 New Zealand census. The information contained in this report has been prepared to inform the development of the Health and Disability…

The next steps for the Action Plan

February 12th, 2014

A 20 Year Horizon and a 5 Year Action Plan As outlined in a briefing paper, circulated in January 2014, the Boards of Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ) and Careerforce have agreed to work in partnership to develop an action plan that will focus on workforce development for the health and disability Kaiāwhina care and…

An introduction to the Action Plan

January 31st, 2014

Stakeholder briefing for engagement workshops Introduction Across New Zealand over 12,000 support and care workers are undertaking workplace training annually. This is small percentage of the estimated number of non-regulated workers in the health, mental health, aged care, public health and disability services sector. We now need to plan for the development needs of this…