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 career – that’s practice, education, research, and management.

He also speaks about resource effectiveness as a part of clinical governance and how he considers the best use of the taxpayer’s dollar. This includes looking at new ways of using our existing infrastructure to deliver care efficiently.

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.

Brent speaks about how saying yes to every opportunity during his professional career helped him build a unique skill set and helped him to grow as a leader.

He talks about getting used to jumping into the deep end and getting comfortable in the uncomfortable.

He also talks about his experiences with Performance Development Discussions in both the public and private sectors have led him to view them as important tool in understanding our places in an organisation’s purpose.

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 Tasmania, and about how he views the place of the Royal Hobart Hospital within the THS.

Joe speaks about centring the patient, and about how he approaches those difficult conversations with people who may have lost sight of that idea.

He also describes how effective it can be to exert influence through relationships.

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 Launceston to Sydney, Melbourne, and London.

She speaks about her desire to be of service to her community, and the sense of connection that brings her.

She tells us about her experiences working through the height of the pandemic. She speaks about how important it was to building relationships during that time, and the pride she felt in seeing great people come together to quickly make an idea a reality.

She speaks about embracing the strengths that come from the different ways people like to work, and the benefits of staying open to being challenged.

Laura speaks about the experience of receiving a Public Service Medal, and about how hard it can be for many of us to accept recognition.

Finally, she tells us about the responsibilities that fall under the role of the Director of the Office of the Secretary.

In this episode of the One Health Podcast Wellbeing Series, Dorian Broomhall gets to know Emily Stride, Workforce Strategist for Talent Acquisition.

In this episode, we speak about the three types of boundaries – Fragile, Flexible and Rigid – that we may have in place in our lives.

Emily speaks about the boundaries she has set up, and how they help her to be the way she wants to be at work and at home.

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 even be better than a lot of movement if it is going to be more sustainable over a long period of time.

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 short and long term.

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 working for the Department.

They talk about aligning our work with our values in order to find satisfaction.

And they speak about recognising our own limits in fixing the word’s problems, looking after ourselves and about finding fulfilment in small actions.