Michelle is the Executive Director, People & Culture, at Northern Health, which is a public hospital located in the ‘latest growth corridor of Melbourne’s North’. It has an expected local population growth of 64% by 2031. The population growth has a direct impact on the hospitals clinical workforce that it needs to attract to service the healthcare needs of the community.
Michelle proactively assesses today’s workforce challenges in order to clarify and articulate current and future health service needs and identify optimum pathways towards bridging the gap. As the population grows within the northern growth corridor, more demand is placed on services such as healthcare not just in the number of patients presenting to the service but the types of patient acuity change resulting in the need for different types of clinicians to be sourced.
She has worked within the public and private sector in senior human resource position’s, specializing in strategic HR planning to proactively assess today’s workforce needs and plan for future workforce needs.
She has a Masters in Human Resource Management & Industrial Relations and is currently undertaking her Doctorate, Research Topic: ‘Casualization of the Australian Nursing Workforce and the impact on Hospital Management’.