Rauringa Raupa: Recruitment and Retention of Māori in the Health and Disability Workforce

Purpose

The objectives of the research are to:

1. Identify what influences Māori in choosing a career in the health and disability workforce;
2. Identify barriers to Māori taking up a career in the MHDW;
3. Identify what information is available to Māori about careers in the health and disability sector;
4. Identify support mechanisms for Māori,

   a. students who are still at secondary school and/or second-chance students wanting to develop a career in health science,

   b. community and voluntary workers already working in the sector, and

   c. those enrolled in health and disability education and training programmes;

5. Identify successful Māori recruitment programmes in the health and disability sector and other sectors and analyse whether these models could work in the health sector based on the knowledge gained from objectives 1-4;
6. Provide an overview of the retention statistics for the MHDW;
7. Describe what keeps Māori in the health and disability workforce;
8. Describe what prevents Māori from staying in the health and disability workforce;
9. Identify what careers Māori move into when they leave the health and disability workforce; and,
10. Identify successful Māori retention programmes in the health and disability
11. sector and other sectors and assess whether these models may work in the health sector based on information gained in objectives 6-9.