Human Capital Alliance/HCA is proud to announce our partnership with HealthWork International (HWI) (https://healthworkinternational.com/) . HWI, as the name suggests is like HCA a specialist health workplace consultancy. It has a number of divisions that complement and supplement HCA’s capabilities. These include a unique focus on allied health professional workforces, a population and workforce mapping proficiency, and a publishing arm (which HCA hopes to use to distribute some of its intellectual capital). HCA’s already outstanding health workforce planning capability will be enhanced through the partnership especially by HWI’s data analysis and mapping expertise
The Director of HWI is Dr Susan Nancarrow (pictured), who has collaborated with HCA on many projects over the last 7 years. This includes the further development of HCA’s innovative method to workforce planning using a competency-based approach, the most recent use of the method has been to explore workforce solutions to mental health support needs in small rural towns. We have posted a number of blogs on this project over the last few years.
The HCA / HWI partnership has several current collaborative projects that include the review and profiling of the Occupational Therapy workforce within the Tasmanian Health Service (here), and the Illawarra LHD Development of an Allied Health Workforce Plan 22-27 (here). These projects highlight the strengths our partnership will bring to provide leading workforce thinking, methodology and data analysis
Another project completed in 2022 perhaps even better demonstrates the synergistic benefits of the relationship between the two companies. In the ‘Rural Mental Health Project’, which has been the subject of several previous blogs over the last few years (see our articles), a highly innovative approach to mental health workforce demand and supply in resource scarce environments was developed and successfully concept tested in a small rural NSW town. A ‘Guideline’ document was developed to support this approach in other similar contexts and will be published by the NSW Mental Health Commission in 2023.
Towards the conclusion of the project HWI’s Susan and HCA’s Lee facilitated a two day seminar in Bourke in partnership with local organisations and stakeholders. Susan and Lee are shown pictured with some of those stakeholders.
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