Ms Leanne Stewart1
1Central Adelaide Local Health Network, Adelaide, Australia
Biography:
Leanne Stewart is a Social Worker with 20 years of experience working in the government sector. She has significant clinical experience working with children and their families (particularly during the first two years of a child’s life) and in acute adult public health settings.
Leanne has held leadership roles across various government departments for the past 15 years, both operational and strategic. She has experience in the areas of service development and planning, change management, practice quality improvement and staff development. Leanne has highly developed culturally responsive practice, critical thinking and problem solving skills and a strong commitment to personal development.
Leanne currently works in a strategic role as the Practice Lead for the CALHN Social Work Department.
Abstract:
The Central Adelaide Local Health Network’s Allied Health Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cadetship program commenced in 2022. The framework for the Cadetship is based on the CALHN SEED Program: Success = Education + Employment + Development.
The CALHN SEED Program supports students to gain a professional employment experience to complement their studies and help CALHN to build the next generation of Aboriginal allied health professionals.
The CALHN SEED Program is open to students studying any of the following allied health or scientific professions:
– Social Work
– Psychology
– Exercise Physiology and Physiotherapy
– Audiology and Speech Pathology
– Nutrition and Dietetics
– Occupational Therapy
– Orthotics and Prosthetics
– Podiatry
– Medical science
The Cadetship is one of the key strategies in the broader ‘Allied Health Workforce Recruitment and Retention Action Plan’. The Cadetship offers opportunity for movement across the SA Health system within CALHN. This provides individuals with unique opportunity to experience and develop a variety of skills at one of the many metropolitan or regional sites, including acute and sub-acute settings, which supports identification of areas of interest/specialty.
The model is flexible and designed to complement and add value to student studies, whilst ensuring they are supported to fulfil cultural expectations.