Role Title: Allied Health Data Intern
Organisation: Department of Health
Internship Period: Summer (November - December)
Location: Perth CBD and East Perth
The intern will be placed with the Chief Allied Health Office and drive the initial stages of an allied health data project. The aim of this project is to examine what quantitative measures would be valuable for WA Health to collect and assess in relation to supporting the allied health workforce.
This may include:
- Conducting a review of the literature on what statistics are used to describe the allied health workforce, productivity, and distribution. Examples may include staff to patient ratios, hours worked in relation to full time equivalent staff, among others.
- Assessing current state of data collection and usage of allied health data in WA Health.
- Developing a framework which outlines next steps for WA Health, including what data is currently collected, what measurements could be considered, and suggestions on how to collect these in future.
WA Health is now governed by the Health Services Act 2016.
The new legislation represents a significant reform in health, and is designed to modernise the way our health services are structured, governed and delivered; to promote better health, better care and better value to all Western Australians.
The legislation established the Department of Health as ‘System Manager’ for WA Health, providing stewardship, guidance and support to our health services using a collection of binding Policy Frameworks in 18 key areas of health service delivery, to ensure they provide consistent, efficient and effective services into the future.