This guide provides a step-by-step explanation of how to interpret an allied health workforce modelling fact sheet.
Workforce modelling is the process of mapping the current and forecasted labour pool for a specialty or award-based workforce against projected health service workforce demand.
This section provides a brief description and scope of practice for the allied health workforce and the assessment and treatments provided by the profession. It may also cover the value the profession brings to the people of NSW.
This section provides a profile of what the NSW Health profession is projected to have in 2040 based on the workforce model.
Estimated headcount
Estimated hours worked per week
Estimated average age of workforce
Estimated percentage of workforce that are female
Estimated percentage of workforce aged 60+
Target percentage of the workforce that are Aboriginal
This is the estimated workforce demand (low to high) for the workforce in 2040 and is represented by a percentage growth.
Demand scenarios outline if any additional allied health workforce are required to achieve projected 2040 requirements.
They are listed as headcount.
These icons represent the anticipated career opportunities for the relevant workforce. This is useful for career advisors and prospective students.
Career opportunity rating are based on the required increase to junior entrant positions:
This section provides information on estimates for workforce demand growth required to meet future service requirements based on current models of care. It provides a profile of the workforce utilising a low and high demand scenario. This creates a window that local health districts and specialty health networks could use to project and conduct workforce planning.
This section provides a profile of what the NSW Health profession has at October 2021.
Headcount
Hours worked per week
Average age of workforce
Percentage of workforce that are female
Percentage of workforce aged 60+
This is the 2021 workforce characteristics for metropolitan Sydney – this covers the Sydney geographical basin.
Average age of the workforce
Percentage of the workforce aged 60+
This is the 2021 workforce characteristics for non-metropolitan Sydney – this covers local health districts other than those in the Sydney geographical basin.
Practitioners may work across both metropolitan and non-metropolitan local health districts and will be shown in both sections. This means that adding metropolitan and non-metropolitan headcounts will double count these practitioners and result in a figure higher than the state total.
These are the junior entrant positions into NSW Health from all universities across Australia. Graduate entry positions are based on the award classification/terminology as per award.
This section provides the geographic distribution of the public workforce across local health districts and specialty health networks.
The map also includes geographic distribution of the public workforce compared to the population within local health districts and specialty health networks (per 100,000 population) and by facility across NSW Health.
A health facility is defined as any location where healthcare is provided by NSW Health.
0 1-25 26-50 51-75 76-100 100+
0 1-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 20+
Additional information about potential workforce issues:
These are some assumptions that need to be considered when making conclusions about the modelling.
