The Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Program has been funded by Department of Health to provide support, education and linkages to pregnant women who are unable to access antenatal services or who require additional support. The programs operate from community health services in the outer growth suburbs of Melbourne, and aims to improve the health and wellbeing of mothers and babies.
The Bouverie Centre coordinates a workforce support project for staff employed under the Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Program. It has been recognised that engaging with marginalised client groups is complex work, and that clinicians may face challenging situations in their work with clients. The workforce support project offers workers an opportunity to get together with others in similar roles across Melbourne to provide each other with mutual support, skill development and learning.
Staff of The Bouverie Centre facilitate two worker peer support meetings across Melbourne. These meetings are held in the Southeast and Northwest regions, and occur every second month. Group membership is open to all clinicians employed in Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Programs. We also meet with the program managers two to three times a year.
An important aspect of the workforce support project is to document and share the practice wisdom of workers, which is done via the project e-newsletter and a final report at the conclusion of the project in 2012. These documents will be available to download from our website.
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Worker Forums:
The HMHB workforce support project will be coordinating twice yearly worker forums, which will provide opportunities for information sharing and skill development for the Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Clinicians.
Please contact Naomi Rottem on 9385 5110 for information about upcoming events. We welcome suggestions or ideas for topics to cover at Worker Forums from staff or managers in HMHB services.
