Figure 4: Four focus areas
- Focus area 1: Growing the workforce – attracting and recruiting skilled workers when and where they are needed
- Focus area 2: Supporting strong organisations and workforce culture – making work in family violence and sexual assault services a career of choice, where workers are valued, culturally safe and supported in their roles and in seeking out new experiences throughout their careers
- Focus area 3: Building capability – ensuring workers across the service system understand how their roles support family violence and sexual assault prevention and response, and that they are equipped to perform these roles effectively
- Focus area 4: Building a system that works together – ensuring all workforces work together to prevent and respond to family violence and sexual assault.
The focus areas include activities that build on workforce reform work already under way. They also include new actions that respond to emerging workforce challenges and priorities.
Together, these initiatives seek to secure and maintain a pipeline of skilled workers into the sector. This includes addressing vacancy rates and building better career pathways to retain them.
The actions also respond to the consultation themes and industry feedback, and the evidence of what the first RAP has shown as working.
The scope of focus areas 3 and 4 includes broader community services, health, justice and education workforces, as well as family violence and sexual assault.
A number of reform activities under these focus areas include these broader workforces. This is particularly the case for implementing the Family Violence Prevention and Response Capability Frameworks (Capability Frameworks) and MARAM.
In general, actions apply to all parts of the specialist family violence and sexual assault workforce. However, they may need to be tailored for different workforces in primary prevention, victim survivor response services and perpetrator services.
The initiatives reflect our vision for a worker career journey, as depicted in Figure 5.
Figure 5: Future worker journey
Career awareness
Awareness of family violence, sexual assault and broader community services as a career option for secondary school students and career changers.
Education pathways
Mapping and establishing education pathways through VET and higher education to specialist family violence, sexual assault, primary prevention and broader community services work.
Attraction
Addressing immediate vacancies and attracting potential candidates to the vast variety of roles in family violence, sexual assault and primary prevention services.
Recruitment
Supporting organisations to recruit new graduates, early career, career changes, diverse and multidisciplinary workers.
Onboarding
Establishing better onboarding and work readiness capability.
Professional development
Delivering coordinated and quality training and continuing to build and improve MARAM capacity.
Retention
Supporting leadership development, best practice supervision, health, safety and wellbeing and culturally safe workplaces.
Career progression and mobility
Building career options and pathways and exploring mobility across like service types.
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