Archive | January, 2017

Review of Competency Standards for Occupational Therapy Practice – Public Consultation NOW OPEN

The Occupational Therapy Board of Australia (the Board) is seeking feedback from the profession, stakeholders and the community on the proposed revised competency standards for occupational therapists. Please visit the Board’s website here for up to date information on the consultation. Public consultation commenced on 16 January 2017 and will be open until 30 March […]

Call for Applicants: Masters in Applied Epidemiology at ANU

The MPhil (Applied Epidemiology) run by the Australian National University (ANU) is a two-year research degree that emphases learning-by-doing. The program teaches scholars epidemiology in the field, through coursework and learning in a field placement, such as a health department. The MPhil (App Epid) is Australia’s only Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) and is part of […]

Applications Now Open: Go Rural

Go Rural is facilitated by Rural Health Workforce Australia (RHWA) in partnership with the national network of not-for-profit Rural Workforce Agencies. Northern Territory PHN (NT PHN) offers an exciting opportunity to six university students from across Australia to fly to the Northern Territory (NT) to participate in its 2017 Go Rural program and Pop-Up PHN. […]

Diabetes Pathway Survey for Aboriginal /Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Health Practitioners

The Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA) is aiming to help improve the access to and quality of diabetes education for Indigenous Australians. To do this the ADEA is developing a pathway to help determine the needs of the established health workforce in Indigenous communities and to set the standards for the health workforce in Indigenous […]

Release of National Health Workforce Dataset – Allied Health 2015 Data

The Commonwealth Department of Health recently released the National Health Workforce Dataset (NHWDS) Allied Health 2015 data in the form of: aggregate data accessible via the Health Workforce Data Online Data Tool (ODT), and; a series of Fact Sheets on each allied health profession, and on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practitioners across all registered allied […]

Volunteer with NASCA in Remote NT

NASCA (National Aboriginal Sporting Chance Academy)  is a dedicated Aboriginal not-for-profit focused on enriching the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people.   NASCA’s NT based program utilises skilled volunteers from a variety of fields to deliver sport, health and educational programs in 6 remote NT communities four times per year and is […]

National Aboriginal Wellbeing Conference: Call for Workshop Presenters

The National Aboriginal Wellbeing Conference (NAWC) wishes to invite Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal organisations or individuals, who successfully deliver programs or services to Aboriginal clients, to deliver a workshop to showcase their innovative programs to the conference delegates. This year’s conference theme will be “Healing & Beyond”.  The conference will focus on the issues related to […]