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42 Listening to our Stakeholders: Analysis of interviews regarding competency-based education and training & competency-based career frameworks. Competency-based career frameworks That HWA notes the potential benefits in developing and implementing a competency-based career framework for the Australian health workforce. That HWA notes the case studies and lessons profiled in this report. That HWA undertakes further analysis regarding the juncture between development of a competency-based career framework (a ‘workforce project’) and implementation of a competency-based career framework (an ‘industrial project’) and that these frameworks are fully explored and understood to optimise successful outcomes for any proposed development activity. That HWA notes the New Zealand Let’s Get Real case study as an example of a competencybased career framework that has been implemented as a health workforce project without industrial adjustments. That HWA notes the Australian experience in reform of the Engineering Industry Award as a possible example of a competency-based career reform project implemented through aligned industrial adjustments (see Annex 6). That HWA notes the concept of levels contained within the notion of a competency-based career framework and collaborates with other key national initiatives (for example, Australian Qualifications Authority) to ensure optimal whole-of-government coordination in any developments going forward, so as to avoid frameworks with varying number of levels that do not match. Further research A suite of supporting papers, and a literature review, is being prepared to supplement this report, which together will help to inform ongoing work in the Australian health workforce context. The research team maintains that further research is necessary to provide a stronger evidence base for this work, and recommends further work in the following focus areas. Work to develop and enhance common understanding and an agreed glossary of terms associated with competency-based education and training and competency-based career frameworks. Interrogation of data describing the full profile of the Australian health workforce as per the categories outlined in this report. Work to gauge the full extent of the emergent workforce categories, including consultation with key stakeholder groups regarding actual workforce and health service demand, with a view to forming a strategic framework to guide increasingly emergent innovations and developments. Analysis and exploration of the juncture between development and implementation of a competency-based career framework in order to optimise successful outcomes for any proposed development activity. In addition, the research team believes that significant gaps exist in the contextual literature informing health workforce debates, and has suggested a series of additional research. These are detailed in section 11.6 (Brownie, Bahnisch, et al., 2011a). .
43 The full citation for the report within which these recommendations are included is as follows: Brownie, S., Bahnisch, M. & Thomas, J. (2011) Competency-based Education and Training & Competency based Career Frameworks: Informing Australia health workforce development. Report on NHWPRC Projects 4 and 5 regarding frameworks for competency-based education, training and health career frameworks. University of Queensland Node of the Australian Health Workforce Institute in partnership with Health Workforce Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
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