Albury Wodonga Health – Our Purpose and Commitments
We are excited to begin the future transformation of our Organisation, and with the 2024-2028 Strategic Plan (the Plan), we will build upon our strong foundations to ensure we are a trusted health provider for our community, our workforce, and our partners. We will focus on the long-term sustainability of our service by bolstering our digital capabilities, improving our efficiency, and embedding operational agility. To achieve our vision, we believe in and are guided by our values which determine our behaviours.
We will continue to advance the health and wellbeing of our community, with services that align to the needs and size of our region. We will deliver excellence in care and continue to improve the experience of both our patients and our workforce.
We will grow, develop, and support our people and embed a culture of safety, learning, and quality improvement. We will strengthen training, education, and research, and will develop the capabilities, integrated systems, and data driven processes that will strengthen our impact, now and into the future.
We will also lead a collaborative regional health system focused on delivering safe, quality, and sustainable services to our regional and rural communities. We will achieve this through the integration of care across our network of primary, community and acute health systems.
Our Purpose: Together, we advance the health and wellbeing of our community.
Our Commitments:
- We foster a unified culture of safety, inclusion, and learning.
- We are kind, compassionate and supportive of each other, our consumers, and partners.
- We are trustworthy, accountable, and transparent in our actions and communication.
- We are respectful of others, actively listen, and are collaborative, consistent and reliable.
- We are visionary, optimistic, and inspire solutions to support a healthier future.
Diversity
AWH is committed to having a diverse workforce through equal opportunity. We celebrate, support and stand in solidiarity with people of different ages, gender, ethnicity, physical ability, religious belief, work experience, educational background, and those who identify as a part of the LGBTQIA+ community. We consider it an incredible benefit to our organisation and community that we serve to have a culturally diverse workforce.
Disability
We are an inclusive employer welcoming people from all backgrounds, and are increasingly investing more time and efforts in creating a disability confident organisation, which ensures inclusion and enables employment for people with disability.
Aboriginal Employment Plan
As part of AWH’s commitment to workforce diversity, inclusion and service access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities, the Aboriginal Employment Plan will assist in the employment of Aboriginal people in both clinical and non-clinical roles within the organisation. More importantly, Aboriginal people employed through the Aboriginal Employment Plan will be part of the overall AWH team and not necessarily in Identified Aboriginal positions; ensuring that Aboriginal employees are an integrated and valued AWH staff member.
Employing Aboriginal people across all departments will assist in developing a culturally responsive organisation that promotes the benefit of preventative health services and the importance of accessing health services at the earliest opportunity. Both will greatly assist in closing the unacceptable gap that currently exists between the health outcomes of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community and the wider Victoria community.