Australian Health Directory

Most health and aged care businesses recognise that their main asset is their staff and that the involvement of employees in defining and achieving organisational goals is a strategic success factor. However, the realities of health professional shortages on a global scale, the 'casualising' of the nursing workforce, an increasingly complex legal environment and high expectations of care recipients are just a few issues that contribute to the challenges faced by HR managers in health care.

The HR world today is broad. Smaller health and aged care organisations can not afford to employ HR managers with the wide range of expertise that is required for the role. HR managers, CEOs, boards and new health care organisations therefore frequently have to rely on the services of HR consultants specialising in various aspects of HR management.

The growing HR consulting industry attracts highly trained and experienced people. They offer expert HR knowledge and assistance specific to the health and aged care industry, when the organisation needs it.

This category is in the process of listing HR consultants specialising in the areas of strategic HR consulting; human capital planning; outsourcing; organisational development and psychology services; absenteeism management; operations management; medical call center industry; remuneration and benefits, succession planning; program evaluation; competency based management; human resources policies in healthcare settings; compliance with legal and employment relations legislation; change management; employee engagement; medical recruitment; nursing staff retention; remuneration reviews; incentive programs; psychometrics; e-recruitment; OHS; HR technology; leadership development; health professional training; retrenchment and outplacement.