Work has begun on developing a public health strategic workforce plan and a competency framework, according to the project lead of the HSE’s new Public Health Strategy 2025–2030.
Dr Louise Hendrick, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, was speaking during an online webinar to launch the strategy.
The competency framework and workforce plan would support workforce development and optimise the skill mix of consultant-led multidisciplinary teams, said Dr Hendrick.
She added that it was vital the new strategy does not “just sit on a shelf”.
“This absolutely has to be implemented. Not just for us in public health, but also for the people we work for, which is the population.”
She added that the HSE would be launching a dashboard of key performance indicators of population health outcomes measures. This “will ensure that we are answerable to our population and the monitoring of the strategy can be open to all and is very transparent”.
The Executive had started work on developing a public health strategic workforce plan, according to Dr Hendrick.
“We’ve been given an opportunity in public health with the investment and the reform that we have seen in the last number of years,” she said.
“We now need to make the most of it – the way we will do that is by supporting our workforce to enable them to be the best they can be, to give them clear career pathways in terms of development and to ensure that we optimise the skills mix we have out there for the future of the workforce.”
The HSE is also developing an action plan to implement the new strategy, she said.
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