National priority
Workforce
Strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation, leadership and pathways across eye health and vision care.
Building tomorrow's eye health workforce
FNEHA is committed to strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representation, capability and leadership across all eye health professions. A strong, culturally safe Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce is essential for delivering equitable, community-controlled eye health and vision care.
FNEHA's workforce work spans career pathway development, workforce planning, cultural safety in training and education, and advocacy for systemic change in how the eye health sector recruits, trains and supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Workforce initiative
WISE — Workforce Innovation for Strong Eyes
WISE is FNEHA's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander eye health workforce initiative, designed to increase awareness of the many careers and pathways available across eye health and vision care.
Through the Eye Jobs for Mob platform, WISE shares real workforce stories, career information and pathways into roles across the sector — including optical dispensing, ophthalmic nursing, orthoptics, optometry, ophthalmology and eye health coordination.
WISE supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to see themselves in the eye health workforce, connect with career and education opportunities, and strengthen a workforce that is culturally safe, community connected and responsive to the needs of our people.
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Related workforce initiatives
A Place for Mob and A Place for Me in Optometry
FNEHA Board Director Sara Carrison is involved in the A Place for Mob and A Place for Me in Optometry project at Flinders University, directly supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students through teaching and advocacy for culturally safe optometry education.
Deadly Vision Centre
The Deadly Vision Centre in Darwin, established by FNEHA Chair Shaun Tatipata, is the first Aboriginal-owned and led Optical and Eye Care provider in Australia. It seeks to address the unmet eye care needs of Aboriginal communities across the Top End of the Northern Territory and serves as a model for community-controlled eye care.