Rochelle is a workforce development and talent professional passionate about strengthening the aged care sector through meaningful career pathways, strategic workforce planning, and a people-centred approach to recruitment and retention. Her work focuses on supporting aged care providers to attract, develop and retain talent in ways that respond to workforce needs while creating positive outcomes for communities.
With a particular interest in regional, rural and remote aged care, Rochelle is passionate about exploring practical, sustainable approaches to workforce development that recognise the unique challenges and opportunities of delivering care outside metropolitan areas. Through her work with the Rural, Regional and Remote Home Care Workforce Support Program, she is committed to helping regional communities build the skills, confidence and workforce capacity needed to support older people to receive quality care at home.
Regional, Rural and Remote Home Care Workforce Support Program
Motherhood statements about attracting, training and retaining workforce are easy to say and harder to implement. Overlay the ‘thin market’ complexities of Regional, Rural and Remote areas and to many, this can seem best filed in the “too hard basket”. Three innovative organisations – Ageing Australia, Crest NT and Skills Generation/Skills Hubs are delivering the Regional, Rural and Remote Home Care Workforce Support Program, funded by the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. Rochelle (Ageing Australia), Renee (Crest NT) and Rose (Skills Hubs) will present an engaging, “out of the box” session on the stories and insights learnt from the Program rollout so far.
Rose, Renee and Rochelle all come from passionate positions in their work, life and community to support people into careers and training to join the aged care sector with a deep drive to change the face of aged care workforce attraction.
They will provide grass roots insights, case studies and approaches from the three-year program, having just entered the second year of operation. Starting and ending with community at the centre, the power of connection in an overwhelmed world of aged care, building local collaborative partnerships are just some of the themes emerging.
Leaving a sustainable legacy and adopting an approach that values lived experience, transferrable skills and mining for the right people in the right role at the right time are key shared goals across the program delivery.
The “Three Rs” (Rose, Renee and Rochelle) will provide some practical strategies from the other “Three Rs” (Regional, Rural and Remote) when it comes to local aged care workforce growth and development.
Rochelle delivers the program in eligible regions of Victoria and Tasmania, Renee delivers throughout the NT and Rose’s organisation has select regions throughout QLD, NSW, SA and WA.
This is isn’t your average conference presentation, this is guaranteed to engage the audience though the power of story, presenting a real life, in-progress funded program providers in eligible regions can immediately become involved in and shining a light on a few of the nutty issues – like alignment of training availability in the regions and the complex challenge of a largely part time workforce in a solo environment. This is about more than just re-affirming the already-known issues, it offers a chance for Providers to immediately link in and be a part of the solution the RRR HCWSP offers. Are you brave enough for this?