Shared responsibility for workforce health, safety and wellbeing forum.

“It’s the first time since joining the DoE that I felt a sense of “us’ or “we” instead of feeling like we are in combat.”

The NSWPPA executive recently hosted a workshop focused on workforce health safety and wellbeing with 14 Senior DoE Executive including The Secretary and Group Deputy Secretary.

The workshop was intentionally designed to be a collaborative partnership, and included a range of data sets and research about wellbeing across the workforce, including strong research about principal wellbeing.

The focus of the workshop was making the Quantity of Workload Achievable and Sustainable across the system.

The workshop activities were developed around clear intentions:

As a result of this workshop, we will develop effective ways of working together, with codesign and collaboration, to grow a more positive work culture for ALL who serve the students of NSW.

We will develop a shared understanding of:

• Key issues and research
• What is working well & why
• Barriers to success at all levels
• Actions forward

The workshop was incredibly successful and was highly valued by the participants. It is the start of a series of workshops, a new way of working and we look forward to reporting back about the impact across the system.