Workforce Planning

Workforce Planning

Workforce planning is a powerful tool organisations, sectors and regions can use to make sure they have the workforce they need now and for the future.

Workforce planning ensures the right people, with the right skills, in the right numbers are in the right location at the right time. It also ensures staff are organised and interacting in the right ways and ready to deliver the right services for better well being and care for the community.

Local services, in partnership with WorkUP Queensland, have developed a statewide workforce plan. This plan will help shape the workforce of the future and what WorkUP Queensland delivers. 

Strategic Workforce Planning 2026-27

WorkUP is engaging in Strategic Workforce Planning, to co-create a workforce plan to develop and sustain a workforce that is courageous, connected, and capable. We are began the planning process with an online launch, followed by local, in-person workshops and focus groups, culminating in a symposium in early 2026 to share and finalise the Strategic Workforce Plan. 

Strategic Workforce Planning Workshops

Your insights are needed to guide our work.  

WorkUP Queensland is hosting face-to-face workshops across the state. These workshops are a chance to share insights, explore challenges, and co-create initiatives that build workforce capability and capacity. 

Upcoming workshop locations include:  

We also invite you to join us at the Courageous, Connected and Capable Workforce Symposium on the 18th of March 2026. We will present the high-level strategic workforce plan informed by what we heard across the state through workshops, focus groups, consultations and our workforce survey.

Statewide Workforce Plan

Workforce plans guide our work and outline how we will deliver impact. These plans have been co-designed with the sexual violence, women’s health and wellbeing and domestic and family violence sector.  The workforce plans have a broad focus that is themed across the following workforce spectrum: 

  • Growing the workforce
  • Retaining the workforce
  • Developing the workforce
  • Supporting the workforce
  • Connecting the workforce, and
  • Sustaining the workforce

This workforce spectrum highlights the sectors commitment to building a strong and sustainable workforce and the need for a diverse range of strategies and actions to achieve these goals. 

The current implementation plan was co-designed with the sexual violence, women’s health and domestic violence sector for 2024-2025.

View the current implementation plan here:

View the 2024-25 Implementation Plan

For more information about Workforce Planning please contact us at workforce@healingfoundation.org.au

View the previous Statewide and regional implementation plans here:

Statewide and regional implementation plans were developed to highlight our delivery focus for the 2020-21 period. View the Statewide Implementation Plan and regional implementation plans: South West South East, Central Queensland, Northern Queensland, and Moreton