Employment

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 […]

  HealthWest Partnership, Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY) and Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH) are pleased to release the Community Conversations Report Highlights. In 2020, we asked twenty young people and women from migrant and refugee backgrounds in Melbourne’s west about their experiences of finding work in Australia. The Report Highlights shares some of […]

“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 […]

In a time when much of the public health sector’s efforts have been centred around topics such as testing, contact tracing and ICU capacity, let’s not forget the important role the primary prevention sector will need to play in the coming months.   HealthWest has a strong history of working alongside many of our members […]

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

We welcome MAX Employment to the HealthWest Partnership. MAX Employment is a national provider of Australian Government employment services, with over 250 offices across every state and territory. They are active in their local communities and seek to empower job seekers, connecting them to support, opportunities and sustainable employment. MAX Employment builds an individualised schedule of […]

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 […]

Thank you to one of our newer members, Campbell Page for writing this guest post introducing their services to you. To move people out of poverty, everyone must have access to the opportunity of sustainable employment. We partner with government and the community to help individuals to join the pathway to employment stability. We believe […]