A Courageous, Connected and Capable Workforce – Co-creating our Strategic Workforce Plan

Across Queensland, the domestic and family violence, sexual violence, and women’s health and wellbeing sector is driven by passionate, skilled, and deeply committed people. Every day, this workforce shows up  — working in solidarity to support safety, justice and healing.

Now, we have an opportunity to build on our strength.

We are engaging in Strategic Workforce Planning, designed to support and sustain a workforce that is courageous, connected, and capable. This inclusive process will see the co-creation of the Strategic Workforce Plan for our sector – responding to workforce needs, building capability and capacity, and ultimately supporting meaningful outcomes for service users. This is your opportunity to help shape our workforce, so it reflects the values, realities, expertise, and aspirations of our sector now and into the future.

STRATEGIC WORKFORCE PLANNING  face-to-face WORKSHOPS

WorkUP is facilitating face-to-face workshops across the state to enable the sector to come together and help shape the future of our workforce. Come along to contribute to our collective understanding of current workforce issues and hopes for our future workforce.  These workshops allow us to co-create strategies that support individuals, teams, and organisations to thrive.  We will reflect on the previous workforce plan and workshop our sectors best way forward together.

The face-to-face workshops are a great opportunity to connect and collaborate with peers, provide feedback and share your valuable insights and experiences. It is vital that we hear from as much of the sector as possible to capture its diversity and ensure our workforce development offerings are truly representative of the sectors’ values, realities and aspirations.

Join us for the three-hour workshops at the following locations:

Venues to be confirmed.

Strategic workforce planning is about imagining the workforce we want, recognising the strengths we already have, and putting in place purposeful, achievable steps to grow, connect, develop, and sustain it.

Your insights, experience, and leadership are not just welcome, they are critical and will guide our work for years to come.

2025 WORKFORCE SURVEY INSIGHTS RELEASE – STRATEGIC WORKFORCE PLANNING

The launch of our Workforce planning process will commence with the release of our workforce survey insights.

WorkUP’s workforce survey provides valuable insights from the sector to support us to better understand our workforce, the strengths and the challenges. This is a vital component of strategic workforce planning. WorkUP’s John Turrisi and Alisa Hall will be sharing these survey insights alongside Dr John Chan from Infinite Potential who together with Ronan Analytics designed the surveys with us.

Our fourth workforce survey tells the story of a workforce that is value and purpose driven. It shows a workforce that works hard to create exceptional workplaces that are deeply engaged, where teams work well together and workers are resilient. The survey insights provide important data to bring into our workforce planning. We will also explore the vital role of strategic workforce planning in building upon these strengths, addressing the challenges and developing our sector’s pathway forward.

Register here: 2025 Workforce Survey Insights Release – A compelling story of a courageous, connected and capable workforce

Get involved. Lead the change. Let’s shape the future of our workforce together.

Every conversation matters.

We look forward to collaborating with you.