Future-proof your workforce by reframing allied health roles.

Join Dr Susan Nancarrow to explore the practical facilitators of, and barriers to, task reallocation between health professional roles; and between health professional roles and the delegated workforce. This insightful online course is designed to help you navigate and expand your professional scope within healthcare.

Every health profession is currently grappling with shortages. Compounded by a complex health care system and a unique context of global circumstances, there is an imperative to look at solving existing workforce shortages with new and different solutions. Reframing Professional Boundaries will explore the individual and structural factors that unconsciously limit workforce capacity. By understanding these constraints, we can uncover opportunities and drivers for change. We will focus on sustainability, future challenges, and how to utilise our existing workforce and skills in order to more effectively meet patient needs.

What you'll get from this course:

Structured Process: Understand your professional identity and the factors shaping and reinforcing your boundaries.
Organisational Insight: Grasp how your role fits within your organisation and navigate relationships, governance, and power structures.
Practical Examples: Real-world scenarios illustrating how to drive change and improve healthcare delivery.
Role Redefinition: Explore possibilities for rethinking professional roles to enhance healthcare delivery.
Implementation Tools: Structured tools to help you initiate and implement changes.
Exclusive Online Access: Your learning will be supported with 6-months' access to all Reframing Professional Boundaries resources, plus an interactive online learning community, through The Allied Health Academy.

By the end of the 4-hour workshop, you will be empowered with the understanding and tools you need to redesign allied health professional roles. You will be equipped with an outline strategy which can be further developed and refined with peer support within the learning community, as well as via an online check-in with fellow course participants. Reframing Professional Boundaries is transformative, hands-on, and will ultimately allow you to optimise your knowledge and skills to deliver patient care in the best possible manner.

In addition to the Reframing Professional Boundaries course, you will receive 6 months of access to an interactive online learning community and a repository of key resources to support your continued learning and growth. You will also be invited to participate in a 1 hour online post-course 'check-in' session with Dr Susan Nancarrow.

This course is ideal for:

Individual Clinicians wanting to overcome organisational barriers and work to their full scope of practice.
Professional Groups seeking greater recognition for their roles and responsibilities.
Professional Groups aiming to expand their professional repertoire into new areas.
Team Leaders or Clinicians looking to redesign models of care to better meet patient needs.
Anyone interested in understanding how professional roles are constructed and reinforced within health organisations and systems.

Despite current healthcare challenges, including global workforce shortages, population changes, and technological innovations, healthcare systems are still primarily structured around outdated models and hierarchies rather than individual competence. Moreover, healthcare focusses predominantly on an illness model, rather than prevention and restoration. By joining Reframing Professional Boundaries, you'll be better prepared for future challenges, learn how to recognise and identify specific skills and expertise of allied health professionals, and focus on creating new career pathways for your existing healthcare workers.

Course Fees*:

Individual: $395 AUD ex. GST
Group* (up to 3 people): $995 AUD ex. GST (save $190) *For group bookings of more than 3 people, or if you would like to discuss bespoke organisational training packages, please contact meagan@hwitl.com for custom pricing.
Dual Course Deal - double your learning, double your savings! Reframing Professional Boundaries + Workforce Planning Made Simple online course bundle: $895 (save $125)

PLEASE NOTE - for all international attendees, please do not purchase your tickets here. Instead, email info@thealliedhealthacademy.com and we will send you a GST (tax) free invoice

*You are encouraged to select "pay on invoice" at the check-out, to automatically be supplied an invoice for your accounting and/or tax records

Meet your Course Facilitator:

Dr Susan Nancarrow, CEO HealthWork International & The Allied Health Academy

Susan is an allied health professional, health services researcher, recovering academic, and Director on the Board of the Allied Health Assistants' National Association (AHANA). Susan has more than twenty years' experience of international health services research, expertise and analysis, with a particular interest in the health workforce, models of health service organisation and delivery, and the sociology of the professions. She founded HealthWork International in 2021 to find new and innovative ways to shape the health workforce, to better meet the needs of 21st century health care.

Meet your Course Coordinator:

Meagan Kruger, Events Coordinator HealthWork International & The Allied Health Academy

Meagan brings over 25 years of experience in project management, events, office management, administration, research, and consultation across a diverse range of roles and industries. With a Bachelor of Business, Meagan is a critical thinker who applies evidence-based learnings to practical problem-solving. Most recently, Meagan’s work has been centred in regional economic development, managing a business mentorship program, supporting the growth and development of a regional women’s business network, and managing high-value local events across the Northern Rivers NSW footprint.

If you have any questions in the lead-up to the course, please don't hesitate to contact: meagan@hwitl.com

If you'd like to know more or discuss our corporate packages, please contact Meagan Kruger at meagan@hwitl.com

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