Workforce planning consultancy
We offer workforce planning support to help early childhood and OSHC services recruit and retain the staff they need to thrive
What is workforce planning?
Workforce planning is a process to ensure you have the right people, with the right skills, in the right teams at the right time. Staff wellbeing and retention improves when people are connected to community and aided by a supportive organisational culture. It Takes A Village’s (ITAV) expert consultants can support your early childhood or OSHC service to create a workforce plan that identifies gaps and meets your current and future needs.
What are the signs you need a workforce plan?
There are some tell-tale signs that may indicate you need a workforce plan, including:
- High turnover of educators and teachers
- Challenges recruiting high-quality or appropriately qualified educators and teachers
- Educators and teachers reporting feeling burned out, unmotivated or taking time off for stress
- Educators and teachers being overworked while covering for vacant positions
- High recruitment and agency costs
- You’ve had to cap enrolments because you don’t have enough educators or teachers to meet demand for prices
- You want to ensure educators and teachers feel valued and remain working in your service.
What are the benefits?
Workforce planning can ensure your service has qualified, capable, skilled and confident educators, teachers and staff – now and into the future. It can reduce the chance your service will need to cap enrolments and reduce turnover, recruitment and agency costs, burnout, absenteeism and disengagement, and improve staff wellbeing.
How can we help?
Our consultants live and breathe quality education and care and are experts in workforce planning for children’s services. We can help you create a foolproof plan and quickly put it into action. Get a quick quote (takes less than 2 minutes!)
What services are saying
We have put so many new things in place from [the] mentorship, support, reflection. It has changed the way we see and do things.
[ITAV consultant] is a fantastic consultant and we thoroughly appreciated her support and guidance.
We found the program very helpful. It gave us the opportunity to do a deep dive into our service and plan and implement strategies to support our objectives.