Health Workforce Australia (HWA) has called for tenders to undertake a case study on the delivery of the HWA Workforce Innovation and Reform: Caring for Older People (CfOP) program, as an example of the delivery of a national change program in workforce reform.

 

The Caring for Older People Program aims to demonstrate and evaluate major shifts in the aged care workforce to improve the future supply and adaptability of the workforce for the care of older Australians. The project aims to enhance the capacity and capability of the workforce to improve older peoples’ health service experience and outcomes. Twenty organisations were awarded grants under the program in September last year.

 

The study will analyse the process of delivering a national workforce change program, and compare that analysis to other international evidence of what works and the apparent gaps and make recommendations for strategy improvements and further research requirements in future programs of this nature.

 

The primary foci of this case study are how the program has built individual, organisational and program team capacity and capability to deliver the program goal and the evidence used and hypotheses tested to deliver sustainable reform.

 

 The closing date for submissions is 15 June 2011. More information is at http://www.hwa.gov.au/rft/cfop.