❓ A WA parliamentary question addresses concerns about potential kitchen closure, staffing needs, job losses due to permanent care unit closure, and HR support for displaced employees at Wyndham District Hospital. The response clarifies no kitchen closure is planned and outlines support for affected staff.
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(1) On what date will the kitchen at Wyndham District Hospital close? (2) How many staff will be required to run three shifts a day at the Wyndham District Hospital, what gender mix will be required; and what, if any, surety of employment is guaranteed to staff? (3) With the closure of the permanent care unit, which jobs will be lost to the Wyndham District Hospital trust? (4) When will the coordinator of human resources arrange interviews to discuss personal options for the displaced employees? Hon KEN TRAVERS
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On behalf of the parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Health, I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question. (1) There are currently no plans to close the kitchen at Wyndham District Hospital. (2) Following closure of the permanent care unit, there will be a need to employ 11.6 full-time equivalents in support/hostel services to provide coverage of three shifts a day. The WA Country Health Service does not employ personnel on the basis of gender; therefore, there are no gender mix requirements. The permanent employees whose current functions will be affected by the relocation of permanent care patients to the new facility in Kununurra will be offered retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. Excluding permanent care unit patients, the average occupancy of Wyndham Hospital is 3.1 patients a day. (3) The positions primarily affected by the closure of the permanent care unit are the hotel services coordinator, food service attendants and cleaning staff. In addition there will be a need to retrain the orderlies to become patient care assistants. All the affected permanent staff will be given the option of retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. (4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
(2) How many staff will be required to run three shifts a day at the Wyndham District Hospital, what gender mix will be required; and what, if any, surety of employment is guaranteed to staff? (3) With the closure of the permanent care unit, which jobs will be lost to the Wyndham District Hospital trust? (4) When will the coordinator of human resources arrange interviews to discuss personal options for the displaced employees? Hon KEN TRAVERS replied: On behalf of the parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Health, I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question. (1) There are currently no plans to close the kitchen at Wyndham District Hospital. (2) Following closure of the permanent care unit, there will be a need to employ 11.6 full-time equivalents in support/hostel services to provide coverage of three shifts a day. The WA Country Health Service does not employ personnel on the basis of gender; therefore, there are no gender mix requirements. The permanent employees whose current functions will be affected by the relocation of permanent care patients to the new facility in Kununurra will be offered retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. Excluding permanent care unit patients, the average occupancy of Wyndham Hospital is 3.1 patients a day. (3) The positions primarily affected by the closure of the permanent care unit are the hotel services coordinator, food service attendants and cleaning staff. In addition there will be a need to retrain the orderlies to become patient care assistants. All the affected permanent staff will be given the option of retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. (4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
(3) With the closure of the permanent care unit, which jobs will be lost to the Wyndham District Hospital trust? (4) When will the coordinator of human resources arrange interviews to discuss personal options for the displaced employees? Hon KEN TRAVERS replied: On behalf of the parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Health, I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question. (1) There are currently no plans to close the kitchen at Wyndham District Hospital. (2) Following closure of the permanent care unit, there will be a need to employ 11.6 full-time equivalents in support/hostel services to provide coverage of three shifts a day. The WA Country Health Service does not employ personnel on the basis of gender; therefore, there are no gender mix requirements. The permanent employees whose current functions will be affected by the relocation of permanent care patients to the new facility in Kununurra will be offered retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. Excluding permanent care unit patients, the average occupancy of Wyndham Hospital is 3.1 patients a day. (3) The positions primarily affected by the closure of the permanent care unit are the hotel services coordinator, food service attendants and cleaning staff. In addition there will be a need to retrain the orderlies to become patient care assistants. All the affected permanent staff will be given the option of retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. (4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
(4) When will the coordinator of human resources arrange interviews to discuss personal options for the displaced employees? Hon KEN TRAVERS replied: On behalf of the parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Health, I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question. (1) There are currently no plans to close the kitchen at Wyndham District Hospital. (2) Following closure of the permanent care unit, there will be a need to employ 11.6 full-time equivalents in support/hostel services to provide coverage of three shifts a day. The WA Country Health Service does not employ personnel on the basis of gender; therefore, there are no gender mix requirements. The permanent employees whose current functions will be affected by the relocation of permanent care patients to the new facility in Kununurra will be offered retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. Excluding permanent care unit patients, the average occupancy of Wyndham Hospital is 3.1 patients a day. (3) The positions primarily affected by the closure of the permanent care unit are the hotel services coordinator, food service attendants and cleaning staff. In addition there will be a need to retrain the orderlies to become patient care assistants. All the affected permanent staff will be given the option of retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. (4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
Hon KEN TRAVERS replied: On behalf of the parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Health, I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question. (1) There are currently no plans to close the kitchen at Wyndham District Hospital. (2) Following closure of the permanent care unit, there will be a need to employ 11.6 full-time equivalents in support/hostel services to provide coverage of three shifts a day. The WA Country Health Service does not employ personnel on the basis of gender; therefore, there are no gender mix requirements. The permanent employees whose current functions will be affected by the relocation of permanent care patients to the new facility in Kununurra will be offered retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. Excluding permanent care unit patients, the average occupancy of Wyndham Hospital is 3.1 patients a day. (3) The positions primarily affected by the closure of the permanent care unit are the hotel services coordinator, food service attendants and cleaning staff. In addition there will be a need to retrain the orderlies to become patient care assistants. All the affected permanent staff will be given the option of retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. (4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
On behalf of the parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Health, I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question. (1) There are currently no plans to close the kitchen at Wyndham District Hospital. (2) Following closure of the permanent care unit, there will be a need to employ 11.6 full-time equivalents in support/hostel services to provide coverage of three shifts a day. The WA Country Health Service does not employ personnel on the basis of gender; therefore, there are no gender mix requirements. The permanent employees whose current functions will be affected by the relocation of permanent care patients to the new facility in Kununurra will be offered retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. Excluding permanent care unit patients, the average occupancy of Wyndham Hospital is 3.1 patients a day. (3) The positions primarily affected by the closure of the permanent care unit are the hotel services coordinator, food service attendants and cleaning staff. In addition there will be a need to retrain the orderlies to become patient care assistants. All the affected permanent staff will be given the option of retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. (4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
(1) There are currently no plans to close the kitchen at Wyndham District Hospital. (2) Following closure of the permanent care unit, there will be a need to employ 11.6 full-time equivalents in support/hostel services to provide coverage of three shifts a day. The WA Country Health Service does not employ personnel on the basis of gender; therefore, there are no gender mix requirements. The permanent employees whose current functions will be affected by the relocation of permanent care patients to the new facility in Kununurra will be offered retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. Excluding permanent care unit patients, the average occupancy of Wyndham Hospital is 3.1 patients a day. (3) The positions primarily affected by the closure of the permanent care unit are the hotel services coordinator, food service attendants and cleaning staff. In addition there will be a need to retrain the orderlies to become patient care assistants. All the affected permanent staff will be given the option of retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. (4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
(2) Following closure of the permanent care unit, there will be a need to employ 11.6 full-time equivalents in support/hostel services to provide coverage of three shifts a day. The WA Country Health Service does not employ personnel on the basis of gender; therefore, there are no gender mix requirements. The permanent employees whose current functions will be affected by the relocation of permanent care patients to the new facility in Kununurra will be offered retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. Excluding permanent care unit patients, the average occupancy of Wyndham Hospital is 3.1 patients a day. (3) The positions primarily affected by the closure of the permanent care unit are the hotel services coordinator, food service attendants and cleaning staff. In addition there will be a need to retrain the orderlies to become patient care assistants. All the affected permanent staff will be given the option of retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. (4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
(3) The positions primarily affected by the closure of the permanent care unit are the hotel services coordinator, food service attendants and cleaning staff. In addition there will be a need to retrain the orderlies to become patient care assistants. All the affected permanent staff will be given the option of retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. (4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
(4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
(2) How many staff will be required to run three shifts a day at the Wyndham District Hospital, what gender mix will be required; and what, if any, surety of employment is guaranteed to staff? (3) With the closure of the permanent care unit, which jobs will be lost to the Wyndham District Hospital trust? (4) When will the coordinator of human resources arrange interviews to discuss personal options for the displaced employees? Hon KEN TRAVERS replied: On behalf of the parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Health, I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question. (1) There are currently no plans to close the kitchen at Wyndham District Hospital. (2) Following closure of the permanent care unit, there will be a need to employ 11.6 full-time equivalents in support/hostel services to provide coverage of three shifts a day. The WA Country Health Service does not employ personnel on the basis of gender; therefore, there are no gender mix requirements. The permanent employees whose current functions will be affected by the relocation of permanent care patients to the new facility in Kununurra will be offered retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. Excluding permanent care unit patients, the average occupancy of Wyndham Hospital is 3.1 patients a day. (3) The positions primarily affected by the closure of the permanent care unit are the hotel services coordinator, food service attendants and cleaning staff. In addition there will be a need to retrain the orderlies to become patient care assistants. All the affected permanent staff will be given the option of retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. (4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
(3) With the closure of the permanent care unit, which jobs will be lost to the Wyndham District Hospital trust? (4) When will the coordinator of human resources arrange interviews to discuss personal options for the displaced employees? Hon KEN TRAVERS replied: On behalf of the parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Health, I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question. (1) There are currently no plans to close the kitchen at Wyndham District Hospital. (2) Following closure of the permanent care unit, there will be a need to employ 11.6 full-time equivalents in support/hostel services to provide coverage of three shifts a day. The WA Country Health Service does not employ personnel on the basis of gender; therefore, there are no gender mix requirements. The permanent employees whose current functions will be affected by the relocation of permanent care patients to the new facility in Kununurra will be offered retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. Excluding permanent care unit patients, the average occupancy of Wyndham Hospital is 3.1 patients a day. (3) The positions primarily affected by the closure of the permanent care unit are the hotel services coordinator, food service attendants and cleaning staff. In addition there will be a need to retrain the orderlies to become patient care assistants. All the affected permanent staff will be given the option of retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. (4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
(4) When will the coordinator of human resources arrange interviews to discuss personal options for the displaced employees? Hon KEN TRAVERS replied: On behalf of the parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Health, I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question. (1) There are currently no plans to close the kitchen at Wyndham District Hospital. (2) Following closure of the permanent care unit, there will be a need to employ 11.6 full-time equivalents in support/hostel services to provide coverage of three shifts a day. The WA Country Health Service does not employ personnel on the basis of gender; therefore, there are no gender mix requirements. The permanent employees whose current functions will be affected by the relocation of permanent care patients to the new facility in Kununurra will be offered retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. Excluding permanent care unit patients, the average occupancy of Wyndham Hospital is 3.1 patients a day. (3) The positions primarily affected by the closure of the permanent care unit are the hotel services coordinator, food service attendants and cleaning staff. In addition there will be a need to retrain the orderlies to become patient care assistants. All the affected permanent staff will be given the option of retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. (4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
Hon KEN TRAVERS replied: On behalf of the parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Health, I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question. (1) There are currently no plans to close the kitchen at Wyndham District Hospital. (2) Following closure of the permanent care unit, there will be a need to employ 11.6 full-time equivalents in support/hostel services to provide coverage of three shifts a day. The WA Country Health Service does not employ personnel on the basis of gender; therefore, there are no gender mix requirements. The permanent employees whose current functions will be affected by the relocation of permanent care patients to the new facility in Kununurra will be offered retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. Excluding permanent care unit patients, the average occupancy of Wyndham Hospital is 3.1 patients a day. (3) The positions primarily affected by the closure of the permanent care unit are the hotel services coordinator, food service attendants and cleaning staff. In addition there will be a need to retrain the orderlies to become patient care assistants. All the affected permanent staff will be given the option of retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. (4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
On behalf of the parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Health, I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question. (1) There are currently no plans to close the kitchen at Wyndham District Hospital. (2) Following closure of the permanent care unit, there will be a need to employ 11.6 full-time equivalents in support/hostel services to provide coverage of three shifts a day. The WA Country Health Service does not employ personnel on the basis of gender; therefore, there are no gender mix requirements. The permanent employees whose current functions will be affected by the relocation of permanent care patients to the new facility in Kununurra will be offered retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. Excluding permanent care unit patients, the average occupancy of Wyndham Hospital is 3.1 patients a day. (3) The positions primarily affected by the closure of the permanent care unit are the hotel services coordinator, food service attendants and cleaning staff. In addition there will be a need to retrain the orderlies to become patient care assistants. All the affected permanent staff will be given the option of retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. (4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
(1) There are currently no plans to close the kitchen at Wyndham District Hospital. (2) Following closure of the permanent care unit, there will be a need to employ 11.6 full-time equivalents in support/hostel services to provide coverage of three shifts a day. The WA Country Health Service does not employ personnel on the basis of gender; therefore, there are no gender mix requirements. The permanent employees whose current functions will be affected by the relocation of permanent care patients to the new facility in Kununurra will be offered retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. Excluding permanent care unit patients, the average occupancy of Wyndham Hospital is 3.1 patients a day. (3) The positions primarily affected by the closure of the permanent care unit are the hotel services coordinator, food service attendants and cleaning staff. In addition there will be a need to retrain the orderlies to become patient care assistants. All the affected permanent staff will be given the option of retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. (4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
(2) Following closure of the permanent care unit, there will be a need to employ 11.6 full-time equivalents in support/hostel services to provide coverage of three shifts a day. The WA Country Health Service does not employ personnel on the basis of gender; therefore, there are no gender mix requirements. The permanent employees whose current functions will be affected by the relocation of permanent care patients to the new facility in Kununurra will be offered retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. Excluding permanent care unit patients, the average occupancy of Wyndham Hospital is 3.1 patients a day. (3) The positions primarily affected by the closure of the permanent care unit are the hotel services coordinator, food service attendants and cleaning staff. In addition there will be a need to retrain the orderlies to become patient care assistants. All the affected permanent staff will be given the option of retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. (4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
(3) The positions primarily affected by the closure of the permanent care unit are the hotel services coordinator, food service attendants and cleaning staff. In addition there will be a need to retrain the orderlies to become patient care assistants. All the affected permanent staff will be given the option of retraining, redeployment or voluntary redundancy. (4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
(4) Following the meeting with the Wyndham workplace consultative committee on 17 November 2004, arrangements will be made for individual staff members to meet with the human resource management to discuss their individual employment options.
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