Overview
Ensuring a highly qualified and diverse pipeline of health care professionals
Mass General Brigham Workforce Development (WFD), a division of Human Resources, is committed to ensuring a highly qualified and diverse pipeline of health care professionals, while providing economic opportunity within the communities we serve. WFD assists staff, management and leadership with program development, planning and funding procurement. WFD strives to create career pipelines and pathways for youth, community residents and current employees with the dual goal of providing career and economic opportunity while responding to Mass General Brigham’s need for a highly qualified, diverse workforce.
Workforce Development also provides career/skills growth opportunities through academic and career coaching/navigation and supportive, accessible, and affordable college programs offered in partnership with multiple institutions of higher learning. To ensure equitable access for all of our colleagues, the WFD team has piloted and sustained multiple, innovative, flexible strategies and partnerships that offer participants the option to access educational opportunities online, on their own time, and at their own pace.
Mission, vision and strategy
Mass General Brigham Workforce Development (WFD) honors diversity, equity, and inclusion with strong partnerships at local, state, and national levels. WFD focuses on current and future needs of our organization while providing career pipelines and pathways to create and sustain a skilled, culturally competent and diverse workforce. WFD is committed to supporting and creating career mobility opportunities for employees who want to grow professionally and personally, while creating economic opportunities for community residents.
The Mass General Brigham Workforce Development department will be recognized as a national leader in workforce development by addressing current and forecasted health care workforce shortages, providing equitable opportunities and resources to those we serve, and supporting innovative and collaborative partnerships. We will empower and enable economic mobility.
Partnerships: collaborative program development and implementation
Educational institutions
Community Based Organizations
Public agencies
Funders
Pipelines and pathways: multiple and intersecting routes to health careers
Youth
Community residents
Incumbent employees
Policy: engagement and influence
Boston Private Industry Council/MassHire
Commonwealth Corporation
Massachusetts Healthcare Collaborative
MA Competitive Partnership
Governor’s Commission on Innovation and Lifelong Learning