Australia's rural communities rely heavily on public-sector provided community mental
health services and these services face major recruitment and retention challenges, with …

Objective This paper aims to contribute to the development of a more sustainable Australian
rural community mental health workforce by comparing the findings from a literature search …

Recruitment and retention of professionals is a major issue in rural health care. Following a
literature review and series of focus groups, a questionnaire to ascertain why professionals …

The recruitment, retention and training of mental health workers is of major concern in rural
Australia, and the Gippsland region of Victoria is no exception. Previous studies have …

Objective: To identify strategies local managers can use to optimise recruitment and
retention of mental health staff in rural locations. Design: Forty‐one staff were interviewed …

Purpose Some of Australia's most severe and protracted workforce shortages are in public
sector community mental health (CMH) services. Research identifying the factors affecting …

This paper reports on preliminary findings of a novel program piloted in 2010 to address
rural mental health workforce shortages. The program involved exposing allied health and …

As with all fledgling professions the role of the Community-based Mental Health Support
Work is forging its own identity in New Zealand's health care sector, with support workers …

Objective: The aim of this pilot study was to determine the reasons why mental health
professionals work in a community mental health service. Methods: A survey of psychiatrists …

Background Whilst there have been several studies exploring retention in health workers,
little is known about health workers engaged in the provision of mental health services and …