New Ways of Working Documents

For a list of all of the New Ways of Working Products from each profession, please click here.

The Products list represents a list of the Products, including formal and other publications, that have been or will be delivered by way of the NWW Programme. Copies with more detailed information can be found on the relevant section of this website. It will be added to as and when necessary.

NHS Confederation Mental Health Network Briefing

New Ways of Working for Everyone A Best Practice

Purpose of the Guide

The purpose of this best practice implementation guide, produced by the National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE) National Workforce Programme (NWP), is to set out how health and social care organisations could take a strategic approach to the implementation of New Ways of Working (NWW). Until now, NWW has been addressed by some practitioners and teams and has been discussed at Board level in some Trusts. In this guide, we aim to help and support organisations in addressing how NWW can be approached across the whole system. As NHS Trusts are the largest single employers of mental health professionals at this time, they have been identified here as the primary audience in the first instance.

A draft of this guide was presented to the NWW for Everyone national conference which took place on 25 April 2007, as well as the subsequent regional conferences organised by the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP)/NIMHE development centres. It has been prepared with the help of feedback from a number of sources, including the conference delegates and those who responded to the call for comments set out on the NWW website.

of the implementation guide for organisations/staff to complete the relevant entries either electronically or manually.

Mental Health: New Ways of Working for Everyone Developing and sustaining a capable and flexible workforce

This report can also be found at http://www.nimhe.csip.org.uk/nww

Purpose of the Report

The purpose of this report on NWW in Mental Health is to describe what NWW means for everyone, i.e. for all professions and practitioners working with people with mental health problems across all ages, as well as service users and carers. There are issues specific to some professions and practitioners that are highlighted in the individual summary reports – see Section 7, Chapters 2 to 10. What is also clear is that there are many themes that cut across different staff groups, and these, too, are described in the report.

Although there has been specific engagement with a variety of professional groups of staff who work across the full age range of mental health services – such as applied psychologists and allied health professionals, including occupational therapists, nurses, pharmacists, psychiatrists, social workers and the non-professionally affiliated workforce – the direction of travel has been the same for all: how to work flexibly as part of a team.

The Creating Capable Teams Approach is being published as a separate, companion document. It is intended to provide a structured way of helping teams to reflect on their current and future capabilities and skill mix: in other words, how they can implement NWW and the new roles.

This report is for all employing organisations in health and social care; the independent and voluntary sector; practitioners; commissioners; Strategic Health Authorities; Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) regional development centres; service users and carers; and higher education institutions.

New Ways of Working (NWW) with you

A Positive Outlook

New Ways of Working for psychiatrists: Enhanced effective, person-centred services through new ways of working in multidisciplinary and multi-agency contexts

Final Report ' but not the end of the story' October 2005

Appendices of the Final Report ' but not the end of the story' October 2005

Interim Report - August 2004