HEALTH WORKFORCE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
Financial assistance for your training and upskilling
Funding to help you upskill through professional development, training, short courses and conferences that will benefit your community.
The Health Workforce Scholarship Program (HWSP) is for medical, nursing, midwifery, allied health, dental and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health professionals, providing primary health care in the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) sector, non-government organisations and private practice across Australia.
Funding is available to support the costs of completing postgraduate courses, short courses, workshops, conferences and seminars.
The program has been extended for a further two years (2023-24 and 2024-25) and applications will be open in the coming weeks.
Please contact your local Rural Workforce Agency for more information.
HWSP PROGRAM RESULTS
A total of $11,908,268 has been provided nationwide between 1 July 2022 - 31 June 2023, and a total of 5032 bursary and 487 scholarships were funded. Crucially, over 50% of surveyed scholarship recipients contribute to the delivery of essential services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
The HWSP plays a pivotal role in ensuring both health professionals and rural and remote communities across Australia continue to have the healthcare services they need and the educational support to thrive.
It’s great to be able to take my learnings [from the courses I am undertaking] back to my paediatric Occupational Therapist group across NSW, Queensland and South Australia.
The knowledge and information I’m gaining isn’t just impacting positively on my local community, it’s having a national flow-on effect as it’s giving these OTs more confidence, awareness and skills.
The things I have learnt from these courses, and the skills I have gained, have definitely impacted positively on the context of my regular workshops and webinars.
I wouldn’t be able to do any of these courses without the HWSP funding.
Deb Hopper, Occupational Therapist
Forster, NSW
Find out more through your local Rural Workforce Agency.
Eligibility criteria apply.
