Education and Workforce Advisory Group
The Education and Workforce Advisory Group is a multidisciplinary team of health practitioners, who meet quarterly to provide local insights and strategic advice to the Country to Coast Leadership Team on education and workforce matters in the primary care sector across Central Queensland, Wide Bay, and the Sunshine Coast.
Education and Workforce Advisory Group
The Education and Workforce Advisory Group is a multidisciplinary team of health practitioners, who meet quarterly to provide local insights and strategic advice to the Country to Coast Leadership Team on education and workforce matters in the primary care sector across Central Queensland, Wide Bay, and the Sunshine Coast.
Skills Matrix:
Based on three components:
i. an individual’s professional skills
ii. general experience, and
iii. the geographic location, diversity and equity of the Education and Workforce Advisory Group
Professional Skills
- General practitioner (minimum 4 years’ experience)
- Clinician (must be AHPRA-registered, minimum 4 years)
- Mental health clinician
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health organisation
- Aged care clinician University/research institute worker (health)
General experience
- Demonstrated commitment to advancing primary health sector initiatives/programs in local communities
- Demonstrated local knowledge of primary care education and/or workforce needs
Diversity and equity
- Gender
- Locality
- Identifying as a member of any of these groups:
a. Aboriginal and/or Torres Straits Islander
b. people with disability
c. culturally and linguistically diverse
Clinical Advisory Council
Governance
The Clinical Advisory Council is one of three advisory groups to the Country to Coast Queensland Board.
The Clinical Advisory Council multi-disciplinary group comprises GPs, Clinical Educators, Researchers, Hospital staff, Paramedics and Allied Health professionals across our three regions into one collaborative Council.
Education and Workforce
Advisory Group
Name | Role | Region |
Anita Sailsbury | Regional Practice Nurse | Wide Bay |
Tristan Hall | Exercise Physiologist | Sunshine Coast |
Sherif Takla | Accredited Pharmacist | Wide Bay |
Sue McDonald | Nurse Practitioner | Wide Bay |
Assoc Prof Florin Oprescu | Associate Professor | Sunshine Coast |
Dr Josh Stevens | General Practitioner | Sunshine Coast |
Vacant |
| Central Queensland |
Vacant |
| Central Queensland |
Expressions of Interest (EOI)
now open
Expressions of Interest are now open for clinicians from Central Queensland, Wide Bay and the Sunshine Coast areas to join CCQ’s Education and Workforce Advisory Group.
Applications close 5pm (AEST), 19 June 2026.
View the Terms of Reference for more details.