One Health Podcast

Boundaryless careers embrace flexibility and mobility across different roles, sectors, or professions. These careers require adaptability and the ability to apply skills in diverse contexts. Individuals with boundaryless careers may move between organisations or roles, applying their expertise in new and varied environments. This model often overlaps with protean careers, as both value flexibility, but boundaryless careers place gr...

Kaleidoscope careers represent a flexible approach to balancing evolving life and work priorities, empowering individuals to shift focus as personal and professional circumstances change. Success is measured by fulfillment, well-being and flexibility. This model embraces adaptability and alignment with personal values, whether one seeks new challenges, work-life balance, or broader impact. Unlike a fixed career path, a kaleidoscope...

Career development doesn’t always require changing jobs or titles. A career in place focuses on growth within your current role or organisation. Here, progress is about evolving how you approach your work - expanding responsibilities, enhancing skills, and continuously improving within your existing job. Success is measured by personal growth and how you can innovate and contribute meaningfully in your current role. This model ofte...

A traditional, linear career path is characterised by clear, upward progression through a series of roles within an organisation or profession. This path typically involves moving up the corporate ladder, with success measured by external markers such as promotions and new titles. For those who seek to become experts in their field, traditional careers offer a structured route to deepen knowledge, refine skills, and take on leaders...

Protean careers are self-directed, driven by personal values and goals rather than external rewards. Success is internally defined, based on personal satisfaction and alignment with one’s values. 

We explore this model though interviews with:

• Amelia Visintin, Breast Imaging Clinical Educator – BreastScreen Tasmania.
• Caitlin Cocker, Manager of Psychology Services – Hospitals North West.
• Tony Mendoza Diaz, Allied Health Research and ...

Sleep is a fundamental part of looking after ourselves. When we sleep well, we can improve our overall wellbeing, mood, and cognitive function. 

In this episode, Dorian Broomhall gets to know Samantha Bramich, a Paediatric Sleep Technician at the Launceston General Hospital.  

Sam shares fascinating insights into how little is known about sleep, despite it being such a significant part of our lives. She walks us through the structure...

In this episode of the One Health Podcast, Dorian Broomhall from People and Culture gets to know Dr John Lambert, the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) for the Department of Health.

During our conversation, John spoke about his passions for technology and medicine and how they have led him to his current CCIO role. He explains how that role varies across jurisdictions and describes acting as a universal translator between cl...

In this episode of the One Health Podcast, Dorian Broomhall from Culture & Wellbeing, gets to know Peter Boyles, the Acting Director of the Office of the Secretary. 

During our conversation, Peter speaks about how he came to pursue a career in pharmacy and the path he took to become Chief Pharmacist. 

Peter reflects on the challenging experience he had returning to Tasmania when the COVID-19 pandemic began, and on the work he was...

In this episode of the One Health Podcast, Dorian Broomhall, Manager of Culture & Wellbeing, gets to know Ian Thomas, our Chief Risk Officer. 

During our conversation, Ian speaks about his long career in corrections, and how transitioning into management gave him the chance to work at various prisons across the UK and Australia. 

He talks about the crucial role that comradery amongst colleagues plays in helping us look out for ea...

In this episode of the One Health Podcast, Dorian Broomhall, Manager of Culture & Wellbeing, gets to know Professor Dinesh Arya, Chief Medical Officer, Chief Psychiatrist and Deputy Secretary for Clinical Quality Regulation and Accreditation.

In our conversation, Dinesh speaks about being inspired to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps and become a psychiatrist when he was growing up in India. 

He talks about being a lifetime l...

Note: Since recording, Policy, Purchasing, Performance and Reform and been renamed System Management and Reform.

In this episode of the One Health Podcast, Dorian Broomhall, Manager of Culture & Wellbeing, gets to know Sally Badcock, the Acting Deputy Secretary for Policy, Purchasing, Performance and Reform.

During our conversation, Sally speaks about growing up on the North West Coast and working in law in Paris and Br...

In this episode of the One Health Podcast, Dorian Broomhall, Manager of Culture & Wellbeing, gets to know Brendan Docherty, Deputy Secretary for Hospitals and Primary Care.

During our conversation, recorded back in April, Brendan speaks about growing up alongside six siblings in Scotland and becoming one of that country’s first male midwives. 

Brendan speaks about his focus upon the PERM principles as he progressed in his nursing...

In this episode of the One Health Podcast, Dorian Broomhall, Manager of Culture & Wellbeing, gets to know Brent Feike, Chief Information Officer.

During our conversation, Brent shares how his fascination with space led him to study science and turn his passion into a career. 

He talks about how growing up surrounded by many different cultures in Europe enriched his perspectives and shaped his approach to equity and inclusion.

Bren...

In this episode of the One Health Podcast, Dorian Broomhall gets to know Joe McDonald, Chief Executive of Hospitals South.

In our conversation, Joe talks about the family events that led him to pursue a career in nursing, and about the difficulties he faced starting out as a male nurse in Glasgow.

Joe speaks about his experiences working in the UK, Malta, New Zealand, and mainland Australia.

He talks about what he has learnt about Tas...

In this episode of the One Health Podcast, Dorian Broomhall, Manager of Culture & Wellbeing, gets to know Laura Pyszkowski, outgoing A/Director of the Office of the Secretary, and soon-to-be Executive Director of Nursing / Director of Services for the Department’s home and community care programs.

In our conversation, Laura talks about times in her life she had decided to change direction and about how that has taken from Launce...

In this episode of the One Health Podcast Wellbeing Series, Dorian Broomhall gets to know Andrew Bonsey, Exercise Physiologist from HT Health Group.

In this episode, Andrew suggests we each think about the things we would like to be able to do when are 70, and to work backwards from them when considering how active we need to be now.

He speaks about how much better a little bit of movement is to no movement at all, and that it may ev...

In this episode of the One Health Podcast Wellbeing Series, Dorian Broomhall gets to know Dr Polly McGee, Psychotherapist and Neuroleadership Consultant from Second Mountain Co.

In this episode, Polly describes the autonomic nervous system and explains how its branches shape our responses to situations, whether that’s a car crash or a meeting.

Polly also provides advice on how we can regulate our autonomic nervous systems in the shor...

In this episode of the One Health Podcast Wellbeing Series, Dorian Broomhall gets to know Georgie Opie, Program Manager for Sustainability at the Royal Hobart Hospital and Dr Tom Clemens, Staff Specialist Paediatrician for the Tasmanian Community Paediatric Service.

Georgie and Tom speak about how the health of our planet is linked to the health of the community, and why this means sustainability should be important to those of us w...