Championing South Australian wellbeing at ANMF's Workplace Culture and Safety workshop

At the CEIH, we con­tin­ue to col­lab­o­rate and part­ner with the health­care sys­tem on build­ing sus­tain­able work­force sys­tems to strength­en work­place well­be­ing. We know peo­ple are crit­i­cal to the effec­tive­ness and sus­tain­abil­i­ty of our health­care sys­tem and, ulti­mate­ly, our patient out­comes. To deliv­er on our vision of improv­ing the health­care sys­tem we have made work­force sus­tain­abil­i­ty one of the pil­lars of our Strate­gic Directions. 

Our nurs­es and mid­wives are a crit­i­cal work­force to our health­care sys­tem. The oppor­tu­ni­ty for CEIH to con­tribute to the Aus­tralian Nurs­ing and Mid­wifery Fed­er­a­tion (SA Branch)​’s Work­place Cul­ture and Safe­ty Work­shop on 8 Novem­ber 2024 was one we couldn’t miss. 

Our Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Con­sumer and Clin­i­cal Part­ner­ships, Katie Billing, spoke about the impact of pos­i­tive work­place cul­ture on cre­at­ing bet­ter expe­ri­ences and out­comes for every­one and the work the CEIH is lead­ing across our health sys­tem to influ­ence change. 

Isla Woidt and Jodie Bow­man from our Work­place Well­be­ing Part­ner­ships team shared their insights on estab­lish­ing the foun­da­tion­al struc­tures and process­es nec­es­sary to opti­mise work­place well­be­ing and team effec­tive­ness. This includ­ed a dis­cus­sion on the impact of good work design and the role we can all play in cre­at­ing excel­lence in work­place well­be­ing and culture. 

If you are look­ing for guid­ance on how to effect change in your work­place, you can:

• reach out to our Work­place Well­be­ing Part­ner­ships Team at CEIH@​sa.​gov.​au.

• check out our evi­dence-based resources, designed specif­i­cal­ly for the SA health­care con­text — Strength­en­ing Work­place Wellbeing