The oppor­tu­ni­ty

Excel­lence is found in organ­i­sa­tions that are seri­ous about adopt­ing a sus­tain­able approach to improv­ing work­place well­be­ing through mean­ing­ful, and data informed engage­ment with employees. 

We have part­nered with the Women’s and Chil­dren’s Health Net­work (WCHN) to deliv­er a col­lab­o­ra­tive applied research work­place well­be­ing project, aim­ing to improve employ­ees’ expe­ri­ence and well­be­ing at work. 

This part­ner­ship pro­vides the oppor­tu­ni­ty for the CEIH and WCHN to con­tribute to nation­al and inter­na­tion­al research and lit­er­a­ture through evi­denc­ing the effec­tive­ness of imple­ment­ing a mul­ti-modal co-design inter­ven­tion approach as out­lined in CEIH’s Build­ing Sus­tain­able Health­care Work­place Well­be­ing framework.

Our Approach

The part­ner­ship between project WCHN and CEIH involves the imple­men­ta­tion of CEIH’s Build­ing Sus­tain­able Health­care Work­place Well­be­ing framework with­in two WCHN clin­i­cal divi­sions through­out 2024 and 2025.

A Steer­ing Com­mit­tee will over­see the applied research project, con­sist­ing of four key phases:

• Assess­ment of work­place well­be­ing fac­tors util­is­ing organ­i­sa­tion­al per­for­mance met­rics and staff per­cep­tion sur­vey measures. 
• Deliv­ery of ​‘Ask & Lis­ten’ ses­sions for staff to share what mat­ters to them and impacts their expe­ri­ence and well­be­ing at work.
• Co-design and imple­men­ta­tion of solu­tions to work-relat­ed fac­tors iden­ti­fied in phase 1 and 2.
• Sus­tain­abil­i­ty and eval­u­a­tion of project out­comes and impact.

This excit­ing ini­tia­tive aligns with CEIH’s 2024 – 2027 Strate­gic Direc­tion, focus­ing on build­ing work­force sus­tain­abil­i­ty and advo­ca­cy for safe, healthy, and thriv­ing workplaces.

Part­ners

• Wom­en’s and Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal Net­work (WCHN)

Out­comes

Phase 1 and 2 of the project has been suc­cess­ful­ly deliv­ered between Novem­ber 2024 and Jan­u­ary 2025. The project has engaged with over 150 WCHN employ­ees to date across two clin­i­cal divi­sions. Prepa­ra­tions are now under­way for the co-design phase to design impact­ful work ele­ments aim­ing to reduce job stress and burnout.

The project has already yield­ed valu­able data and insights and iden­ti­fied key learn­ings for future health­care work­er ini­tia­tives and will offer the oppor­tu­ni­ty to eval­u­ate the effec­tive­ness of imple­ment­ing our Build­ing Sus­tain­able Health­care Work­place Well­be­ing frame­work in an acute health­care setting.

The project is due to con­clude in Novem­ber 2025 and research find­ings will be shared more broad­ly. Watch this space! 

Have a question?

For details about our work, con­tact ceih.​workplacewellbeing@​sa.​gov.​au.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion about our approach to health­care work­place well­be­ing, please vis­it Strength­en­ing Work­place Well­be­ing.