1. A Transition program for new graduates
Taking the next step
A Transition program for new graduates
Sandra Gates
Director allied health and clinical support services

2. Background
Numerous challenges face allied health professionals at the beginning of their careers. These challenges include the responsibility of taking a full work load and managing it independently and efficiently in a fast paced and often pressurised environment.
New graduates are required to quickly understand and operate within a complex healthcare system and organisation and to step up and perform tasks in teams where they don’t understand the prevailing hierarchy or accountabilities.
Health Services and Managers recognise these challenges and provide several means to support new graduates. A structured graduate program is one such means.
A structured graduate program provides a forum in which many of the complex issues graduates face can be discussed and explored in ways that help them to adjust to the requirements of working in a health service

3. Taking the next step program
Run across the Women’s, RCH, Peter Mac and the Eye and Ear
Allied Health New Graduates and Pharmacy Interns
6 sessions across 6 months
Facilitators drawn from Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Nutrition, People and Change (HR), Education and Executive

4. Proposed schedule Date Time Location Topic Facilitators Session 1.
Date
Time
Location
Topic
Facilitators
Session 1.
Thursday
21st July
Royal Women’s Hospital
20 Flemington Rd
Parkville, 2052
Conference Rooms B & C
Ground Floor, RWH
Who’s who in the zoo
(Organisational Structure)
Erin Wass (RWH)
Sandra Gates (RWH)
Emily Alexander (PMCC)
Session 2.
August
At individual sites
Who are you looking at? (Shadowing)
Your manager
Session 3.
Friday
16th September
Royal Children’s Hospital
50 Flemington Road Parkville Victoria Health Education and Learning Precinct
Vernon Collins Theatre
Level 1, West Building
Where are you headed and who will you be?
(Professional Development)
Ruth Nicholls (RCH)
Quan Nguyen (PMCC)
Session 4.
6th October
Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital
Cnr of Albert and Gisborne St, East Melbourne
Room Location TBA
Look who’s talking
(Communication)
Catherine Mancuso (RVEEH)
Brooke Paisley (RVEEH)
Vicki Staikos (RVEEH)
Nichola Baker (RVEEH)
Session 5.
November
(Multiple small group session dates available – TBA)
TBA
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
305 Grattan St
Melbourne 3000
Whose shoes?
(Emotional Cues)
Arti Thakarer (PMCC)
Glenn Trainor (PMCC)
Kristie Matthews (PMCC)
Session 6.
9th December
8:30–12:30
50 Flemington Road, Parkville
Health Education and Learning Precinct
Who cares?
(Resilience and Wellness)
Quan Nguyen (PMCC)
Adrienne Hunter (PMCC)
Maria Tran (PMCC)

5. communication All enrolled partipants Sessions posted
Follow up information
YouTube and other useful links
Outlook invitations
, telephone or meet with any of the facilitators