Diversity

Workforce Mutuality remains a public health challenge COVID-19 reminds us why Prior to COVID-19 the health and community sectors were becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of Workforce Mutuality. Evidence demonstrates diverse and inclusive workplaces are more effective, innovative, efficient and have greater employee satisfaction. Workforce Mutuality highlights the importance of having a diverse workforce […]

HealthWest Partnership, Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY) and Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH) launched our full report of Community Conversations: Talking about finding work in Australia on 16 March 2021. The report focuses on the experiences of twenty young people and women from migrant and refugee backgrounds in Melbourne’s west finding work in Australia. Get […]

“I’ve been looking for work for a while. I finally got offered a job right before the lockdown and pandemic actually happened. I worked for 3 days before everything shut it down… Because I was only doing trial shifts technically I’m not in the system so there probably won’t be a job for me when […]

Find out more about HealthWest’s Workforce Mutuality project By Tanya Sofra, Systems Integration Manager July 2019 Workforce Mutuality project page

March 21st is Harmony Day in Australia, known internationally as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Harmony Day is a good time to celebrate the huge cultural diversity of Melbourne’s west, with around 40% of residents speaking a language other than English at home, and almost as many born overseas. However it’s important […]

Australian society is often described as diverse and multicultural, and this is especially evident in Melbourne’s West. Dr Martin Plowman has been working in the diversity space of public health and most recently on HealthWest’s soon to be released Standards for Workforce Mutuality. Martin shares with us a little about his background, his passion about […]

Workforce Mutuality     What is “workforce mutuality”? Workforce mutuality is a new way of looking at diversity and inclusion that we’ve adopted here at HealthWest Partnership. Workforce mutuality describes how much the diversity of an organisation or a sector’s workforce reflects the actual diversity of the community. As a starting point we will be […]