Mission & Vision
Mission
Cape York families are empowered to live healthy, happy lives
Vision
To deliver high quality, culturally safe, community-controlled holistic health care
Values
Integrity, Accountability, Respect
Goals
Be an employer of choice
Be community-led and family centred
Be financially and operationally sustainable
Have visibility over operations and performance through effective data systems
Be the primary care provider of choice in the Cape York region
Be a policy leader in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing
Strategic Priorities
Deliver high-quality holistic primary health care to meet community needs
- Provide high-quality holistic healthcare in alignment with the Model of Care - considering physical, emotional, social, spiritual wellbeing across the life stages
- Prioritise early intervention, prevention and proactive community outreach
- Plan and deliver place-based services tailored to each community, based on understanding each community and its needs
Attract a culturally and clinically capable sustainable workforce
- Prioritise community-based employment to increase local workforce
- Empower our workforce through training and capability building
- Actively support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment, upskilling and confidence building at all levels
- Collaborate with Health Action Teams and communities to attract and retain local workforce
Maintain community control through strong governance
- Demonstrate strong clinical, corporate and financial governance
- Increase community control through accountability, transparency and input into decision making
- Build and maintain strong relationships with our communities
- Continue to embed cultural governance, building on our strong Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership
- Improve communication between different levels of the organisation
- Support active collaboration and information sharing between Health Action Teams and communities
Use data to inform evidence-based decision-making
- Identify data needs and establish processes to support data driven decision making
- Implement systems to support consistent, high quality data capture
- Train our staff on consistently collecting and using high quality data
- Use data to understand community needs, service footprint, and inform financial decision making
- Regularly gather community input and feedback on our services
- Implement systems to ensure risk is identified and managed across strategic and operational areas
Support our growth through sustainable revenue
- Prioritise applying for funding grants that align to our core services in primary health care
- Leverage Medicare as a key revenue stream through consistent service delivery
- Expand service delivery into areas that align with our core services and the life stages to unlock revenue streams
- Create a strategic approach to increase alternative funding streams
Influence the development and implementation of health policy
- Continue to advocate for the transition of primary health care services to community control
- Participate in public policy development relating to the social determinants of health and wellbeing
- Contribute to policy development at national, state and regional level
- Provide opportunities for Cape York voices to contribute to policy development
