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• What approaches to professional resilience and wellbeing programs deliver the best outcomes for workforce sustainability?
• What are the key things that really impact staff wellness e.g. rostering? Complaints? How can organizations adapt and respond with approaches which genuinely prioritize staff wellbeing?
• How can we help people to stay in the workforce? What are some effective approaches to managing flexibility?
• What proven strategies and workforce models are most effective for improving retention and preventing burnout?
• How do we implement flexible staffing, digital tools, and team-based care without overloading our teams?
• How do you balance that safety for patients with quality standards?

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• What are the key psychosocial hazards experienced by Bupa?
• How does Bupa assess and control psychosocial risks?
• What site-specific interventions have proven most effective?

• Identifying critical psychosocial risk factors
• Understanding and implementing psychosocial hazard legislation in healthcare settings – from theory to practical application
• Effective strategies for supporting both frontline healthcare workers and managers in managing psychosocial hazards
• Creating sustainable solutions: Tools, resources, and best practices for ongoing psychosocial safety management
• Recruitment and developing early career workforce capability – equipping new graduates with tools for resilience and raising awareness of supports available
• Creating sustainable solutions through networks, resources, and best practices for ongoing psychosocial safety
• Empowering healthcare workers to speak up and seek support following difficult situations

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• What are the most effective frameworks and early warning systems that organizations can implement to prevent occupational violence before it occurs?
• How can healthcare organizations build and resource comprehensive OVA support programs within existing budget constraints?
• What strategies have proven most successful in encouraging staff to report incidents and access available support services?
• How do you create and maintain a sustainable culture of safety that survives beyond initial program implementation?
• What are the most critical lessons learned in managing OVA that other organizations should know about?

• How do we define BDH and its costs?
• Why do junior doctors who experience or witness BDH not make a complaint?
• How do gaps in BDH policies lead to poor implementation, opaque investigative processes and issues with not dealing with repeat offenders?
• What are employer obligations and where are the legal responsibilities for other stakeholders such as Colleges?
• Independent framework to prevent, detect, respond, support, and monitor BDH

• The legal and regulatory framework governing bullying in Australian workplaces, including obligations under the Fair Work Act and WHS legislation.
• Recent developments and enforcement trends, such as new penalties, case law, and codes of practice
• Best practice approaches for prevention, response, and recovery.
• Sector-specific insights into the unique challenges faced in healthcare environments, including high-pressure dynamics, long working hours and hierarchical structures
• Resources to help you implement and sustain effective anti-bullying strategies

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Learn from others and leave with a plan.

Join us for a series of small-group roundtable discussions led by sector leaders and experienced facilitators. These sessions are designed to be organic, honest and highly interactive, giving you the space to share challenges, exchange ideas, and walk away with concrete solutions you can apply in your organisation.

Each roundtable will:

• Get beyond the presentations and into real problem-solving
• Showcase practical strategies from featured speakers
• Invite open discussion, questions and peer insight
• Identify 3–5 actionable takeaways from the group
• Help you learn from others and leave with a plan

• Recruiting for sustainability attributes (reflection, interpersonal skills, uncertainty management)
• Balancing junior recruitment with experienced professionals
• Implementing clinical supervision and education frameworks
• Creating psychologically safe learning environments
• Managing junior staff taking on senior responsibilities
• Accelerating “practice wisdom” in early career professionals
• Building capabilities of clinical educators
• Ensuring organizational and systemic protections

This session will explore the legal obligations to identify psychosocial hazards, how vicarious trauma can manifest in modern workplaces and how to take steps to implement control measures to protect the health and safety of team members.

This session will:

• Provide greater clarity on how to identify psychosocial hazards
• Explore the risks of not adopting a proactive approach, both legal and practical
• Identify the impact of trauma on individuals and teams
• Explore control measures to mitigate the risks to health and safety.

• What are the key areas of concern?
• What are the red flags?
• Where is there need for greater collaboration?

Facilitators share top 3 solutions from each roundtable.

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