Glen Innes has been selected as a pilot site for a community-led project to attract and retain healthcare professionals.
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'Attract Connect Stay' is an initiative mobilising the passion, knowledge and practical skills of residents, community groups and local organisations.
The ACS solution involves community establishing a locally funded, recruited and managed Healthcare Workforce Recruiter Connector (HWRC).
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The overall aim of the HWRC's position is to build and strengthen the local healthcare workforce by identifying and attracting out-of-area healthcare professionals to relocate and then to support them and their families to encourage them to stay.
The program is based on a successful model operating in a rural community in Canada and is the research initiative of local Dr Cath Cosgrave.
As a pilot site the Glen Innes community will inform the development of evidence based tools and resources available for other rural communities through access to the ACS website which is in development.
We have had wonderful support from the community with over 100 people joining the organisation in its first weeks.
- Sheryn Nourse
Sheryn Nourse is the chairperson of a new community organisation which has been formed to implement the project in the LGA. The group held its first meeting in February and is developing a robust work plan to take the project forward.
"We were pleased to have the opportunity to submit an expression of interest to the Attract Connect Stay project team to be considered to be a pilot site, and of course, we were delighted to have been selected to implement this important initiative in our community" Ms Nourse said.
"Our involvement arose from a community meeting held as a Glen Innes 'think tank' in 2021 at which members of the community identified healthcare workforce shortages as an issue of highest concern," she said.
"We have had wonderful support from the community with over 100 people joining the organisation in its first weeks and putting up their hand to serve on the healthcare workforce group or the community support group," Ms Nourse said. "We hope to engage a local Healthcare Workforce Recruiter Connector in the near future."
You can contact Attract Connect Stay - Glen Innes Inc at attractconnectstay.gleninnes@gmail.com or call Sheryn Nourse on 0408 682 802.
