Checklists
The Digital and Data Capabilities for Sexual Health Checklists are evidence-based tools to help guide your organisations capability building in an atmosphere that recognises existing practices and knowledge within your organisation.
The Checklists guide you through an organisational and individual benchmarking process that helps you to identify the current practices, skills and technologies relevant to your organisational context. It prompts you to identify resources that may support capability building (including funding, training, infrastructure) and to establish priorities and strategic plans for future capability building (at an organisational and individual level).
Questions to ask before you begin
- What kinds of organisational benchmarking do you need to undertake before you begin formal strategy discussions? How do you know what you don’t know?
- How can you identify gaps in existing digital and data capabilities without framing these gaps as a deficit (ie. anonymous surveys, informal conversations)?
- Are there any individuals or groups currently undertaking digital or data work that is not formally recognised in their existing job titles or position descriptions? How can you ensure that they are included in capability-building conversations and strategic planning?
- Where and how should community consultation and lived experience/expertise be factored into each of the following steps? For example, if your organisation invites community-members to be the ‘face’ of social media campaigns, their perspectives are relevant to discussions of social media governance.
ORGANISATIONAL CHECKLIST
Undertake organisational mapping/self-assessment: (if relevant) Determine how/where the ADHCF is being adopted in your workplace (see digitalhealthworkforce.org.au for organisational and individual assessment tools and resources).
Identify relevant digital sexual and reproductive health technologies used by staff and consumers, considering:
a. Enterprise/organisational technologies (ie. client databases, surveys/intake forms, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platforms, newsletters and websites)
b. ‘Vernacular’/everyday technologies (ie. dating apps, menstrual trackers, social media platforms)
Draw on prompt questions from the Digital and Data capabilities for sexual health model to map current organisational awareness and proficiency in relation to:
– Access and infrastructure (digital and data)
– Skills (digital and data)
– Governance (digital and data)
Determine future organisational priorities and strategy in relation to:
– Access and infrastructure (digital and data)
– Skills (digital and data)
– Governance (digital and data)
Identify sources of infrastructure, resourcing and training (including funding and time-allocation for ongoing staff capacity-building) in relation to:
– Access and infrastructure (digital and data)
– Skills (digital and data)
– Governance (digital and data)
INDIVIDUAL CHECKLIST
Identify the most relevant digital sexual health technologies for your professional context, considering:
a. Enterprise/organisational technologies (ie. client databases, surveys/intake forms, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platforms, newsletters and websites)
b. ‘Vernacular’/everyday technologies (ie. dating apps, menstrual trackers, social media platforms)
Undertake self-assessment (refer to ADHCF for relevant checklists). Consider the following:
– Access and infrastructure (digital and data)
– Skills (digital and data)
– Governance (digital and data)
Develop a plan for building your capability. Consider the following:
– Access and infrastructure (digital and data)
– Skills (digital and data)
– Governance (digital and data)
Identify and access organisational resources and (formal and informal) training:
– Access and infrastructure (digital and data)
– Skills (digital and data)
– Governance (digital and data)
NEXT STEPS
Building Capability
If you currently have formative capabilities, do you need to progress to intermediate level? If you are confident with intermediate capabilities, do you want to develop proficiency?
Resources and Training
Consider how a community of practice (CoP) or peer-mentoring can support each step, and how this can take place both inside and outside of disciplinary boundaries and siloes.
Some resources that might help you to set-up your own CoP
- A quick guide to establishing a community of practice: Developed by the Australian Resource Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) specifically for Australian audiences.
- Introduction to communities of practice a brief overview of the concept and its uses: Developed by Etienne and Beverly Wagner, this site provides useful information about what communities of practice look like and where/how they are established.
- How and why are communities of practice established in the healthcare sector? An open-access systematic review exploring communities of practice in the healthcare sector.
AUSTRALIAN DIGITAL HEALTH CAPABILITY FRAMEWORK
In the Checklists, we refer you to the digital health capability self-assessment tool via the Digital Health Hub website.
Health professionals and organisational leadership can use this tool to evaluate their digital health competencies and organisational readiness against a standardised set of digital health capabilities, known as the Australian Digital Health Capability Framework.