Message from the Community and Oral Health Executive Director

Glynis Schultz, Executive Director, Community and Oral Health

While our Community and Oral Health Staff Excellence Award roadshow is now complete, it was great this week to see so many of our staff recognised as finalists in the Metro North Staff Excellence Awards 2022. Congratulations to our well-deserved Metro North finalists:

People Focus

Post Acute Care Service and the Community Palliative Care Service
Victoria Sinclair, A/Nursing Director, Home Hospital

Excellence in Performance

Emma Glenn, Occupational Therapist, Brighton Health Campus

Excellence in Integrated Care

Specialist Palliative Care in Aged Care (SPACE). The winners of the Metro North Staff

Excellence Awards will be announced at a Gala Dinner on Friday 9 December at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. Tickets are on sale now and are selling fast!

Community White Ribbon event

This week we connected with a number of local ‘against domestic violence’ organisations by holding an informative White Ribbon event at the Brighton Wellness Hub. This White Ribbon event provided an opportunity for staff and the community to come together, to share knowledge and information about the support available and call for an Australia that is free from all forms of violence and abuse against women and children.

Thank you everyone who supported this wonderful networking event which was also driven by:

A big thank you to Tanya Beaumont and Leanne Johnson for all their work behind the scenes getting this important event off the ground. I look forward to more of these events in 2023.

Disability Action Week

Disability Action Week runs from November 26 to December 2. It recognises the contributions people with disability make to our lives, families, workplaces, communities and to Queensland’s economy. The 2022 Disability Action Week theme, ‘Workforce Diversity: open up to opportunity’ highlights the skills, talents, qualifications and abilities people with disability bring to Queensland’s workforce.

If you are interested in being involved in this week resources are available @ Spread the word | People with disability | Queensland Government (www.qld.gov.au)

In addition, we are asking staff with lived experience of having a disability or being a carer of someone with a disability to share their story with Kate Schultz Acting Director Allied Health – COH-DAH@health.qld.gov.au

An Expression of Interest is also open for staff who want to join a COH all abilities working group to inform the development of a COH diverse abilities action plan – email COH-DAH@heatlh.qld.gov.au

Quote to ponder

Martin Luther King Jr said: “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

Glynis Schultz
Executive Director
Community and Oral Health