CheckUP Australia

29/05/2026

🎊 Congratulations Mob Pod Manngoor Dja Aboriginal Health Services for receiving the Health & Wellbeing Award at the Queensland Reconciliation Awards 2026!

We celebrate with you, acknowledge and thank you for your ongoing commitment to community-led healthcare and culturally safe service delivery! 🎊

🖤💛❤️

29/05/2026

TAFE Qld is seeking experienced health and community services professionals ready to share what they know. If you've been in the industry a while and you're thinking about what's next, teaching at TAFE could be it. The Queensland Government covers your training to get started.

Worth a look:

28/05/2026

CheckUP and Access for All have released a media release to help raise awareness and improve healthcare accessibility for people with disability. See excerpt and a link to the full media release below:

"Despite the findings of the Disability Royal Commission, Australians with disability are still facing significant barriers when accessing healthcare, with growing concern the healthcare system is still failing to adequately prepare workers to provide proper support.

Doctor, lawyer and disability advocate Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM lives with quadriplegia following a spinal cord injury, and chaired the advisory group for CheckUP’s Access for All disability awareness training course.

Access for All is an online disability awareness course designed to help healthcare providers better understand and support people across a range of healthcare settings. Access for All is eligible for continuing professional development points for 35+ professions.

Dr Palipana said improving disability awareness across the healthcare workforce was critical to creating meaningful long-term change, with initiatives like Access for All helping close the training and awareness gap across the sector."

View the full media release here: ➡️ https://buff.ly/va8SRcr

The Access for All disability awareness training course is FREE until 30 June 2026:
➡️ https://buff.ly/fmgbY77

27/05/2026

SCHADS Award changes

The Fair Work Commission recently pushed through emergency changes to the SCHADS award in an attempt to resolve the growing issues relating to Sleepover shifts along with some other items. If you're working out what those changes mean for your rosters, payroll, or workforce structure or have questions about the SCHADS Award that never quite have a straight answer, this free Zoom session by Effective HR is a must to attend.

When: Thursday 4 June 2026, 1:00pm AEST

Recording: Available within 48 hours to everyone who registers

Register link: https://www.effectivehr.com.au/event-details/your-schads-award-questions-answered-june-2026

27/05/2026

In the 2023-24 Financial Year, Hear and Say recorded a 52% increase in client numbers and a 500% increase in speech pathology occasions of service. Since 1992, they have been helping babies, children and adults connect through hearing and speech services, from centre-based care across Queensland to telepractice for families wherever they are.

Hear and Say, we're delighted you're part of the CheckUP community. CheckUP appreciates your collaboration, support and membership.

Find out more: www.hearandsay.org.au

26/05/2026

National Reconciliation Week starts today! 🖤💛❤️

The theme for National Reconciliation Week 2026 is "All In", a call for all Australians to commit wholeheartedly to reconciliation every single day.

Not sure how to mark the week?

Join CheckUP on Monday 1 June for our National Reconciliation Week QPHCN event and hear from an engaging line-up of speakers.

Speakers include:
👉️ MC, Kieran Chilcott, Kalwun CEO and CheckUP Board Director
👉️ Helena Wright, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Policy and Strategy, QATSICPP
👉️ Shannon Ruska, Tribal Experiences, will deliver the Welcome to Country
👉️ plus other knowledgeable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders, who will offer valuable insights.

Register now: 👉️ https://buff.ly/XVRLuj5

CheckUP is proud to support reconciliation.
Reconciliation will not happen by itself, and it will not happen without all of us.

26/05/2026

and CheckUP have worked together directly, gathering the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and rural Queenslanders through kitchen table discussions and yarning circles, from Ravenshoe to Boulia, to inform future health service planning. That kind of deep, community-led listening is what HCQ does across Queensland every day.

Proud to call Health Consumers Queensland a CheckUP Member. Thank you for supporting CheckUP and our shared mission!

Find out more: www.hcq.org.au

26/05/2026

CheckUP's Industry Workforce Advisor - Community Services, Stuart Coward, started the Small Business Month of May 2026 in Toowoomba, where he presented at two separate Workforce Forums. The first was a Roundtable for Workforce Australia Local Jobs (DEWR) where we discussed Workforce Diversity.

The second was for The Department Trade Employment and Training (DTET) when they hosted the Workforce Attraction and Retention Forum and discussed practical tools, strategies and resources to address today's workforce challenges.

Curious how Stuart can support you?

Visit CheckUP's Industry Workforce Advisors webpage 👉️ https://buff.ly/9G3LqRD

Stuart brings a rare depth of experience to the role. With more than 20 years in community services, a background in state government, and four decades building and growing his own businesses across training, employment and hospitality, he understands the challenges facing small and medium organisations from multiple perspectives.

The Industry Workforce Advisor program is proudly supported and funded by the Queensland Government.

25/05/2026

Today is National Sorry Day.

A day to remember and acknowledge the impact of past policies on forcible removal of the Stolen Generations, their families, and their communities.

This day of remembrance is a testament to the resilience, strength, and enduring spirit of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Let us all embrace the responsibility to learn, to listen, and to play a part in the healing process for our people and nation.

25/05/2026

As part of 2026 Queensland Small Business Month, CheckUP's Workforce and Industry Development Team hosted "Let’s Talk Business Solutions". This was a targeted event for Community Services and NDIS businesses across Rockhampton and the surrounding areas.

CheckUP's Workforce and Industry Development Team, Kylie Hogan, Simon Whitehart, Stuart Coward, and Debbie Rooskov delivered practical presentations addressing current business and workforce challenges. We were also joined by Queensland Small Business Financial & Wellbeing Counsellor, Sharon Kingston, who contributed valuable insights and solutions during the discussion.

Read more about this event in our blog:
https://buff.ly/J0jEsah

The Business Support and Workforce programs are proudly supported and funded by the Queensland Government.

25/05/2026

👏 Cairns, let's talk real staffing solutions! 👏

Artificial Intelligence in healthcare is no longer about the future - it’s about solving today’s workforce challenges.

Be part of the conversation shaping the future of workforce sustainability.

Join us for a FREE sector-wide event on Thursday 28 May, supported by the Cairns Regional Jobs Committee & Local Jobs Program and CheckUP.

Check out the post below! Register for the event.

GOT STAFFING CHALLENGES? LET’S TALK REAL SOLUTIONS

Artificial Intelligence in healthcare is no longer about the future - it’s about solving today’s workforce challenges.

Join us this Thursday, May 28 for a FREE industry event for the Allied Health and Social Services sector, proudly supported by CheckUP, Cairns Regional Jobs Committee & Local Jobs Program.

The program features a panel discussion where we will bring together leaders in healthcare, technology, governance, and innovation to explore one powerful question:

👉 Can AI help solve healthcare’s biggest challenge — workforce capacity?

The panel, led by JCU: James Cook University, Australia Dr Samantha J Horseman, will move beyond theory and into real-world application - showing how AI is already helping healthcare teams.

Panel speakers include:
• Dr Vin Rajeswaran – healthcare innovator and clinician
• Donna Patane – AI governance and risk specialist
• Adam Jacobson – AI solutions architect in health tech
• Hilary Watson – biotech innovator and investment strategist

Healthcare doesn’t have a technology problem, it has a workforce challenge. AI is the tool that can help solve it.

Importantly, this is not about replacing people, it’s about supporting our healthcare workforce so they can do what they do best - deliver quality care.

Attendees will gain practical insights, real examples, and actionable strategies they can take back into their own organisations.

So, if you work in healthcare, community services, or workforce planning (or know someone who does) this session is for you.



BOOK NOW https://www.cairnschamber.com.au/event/got-staffing-challenges/