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.
New Ways of Working for Everyone A Best Practice Implementation
Guide
October 2007
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.
Click here for Sections 4 and
5 only 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
"To me, it's great"
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,
National Steering Group - Guidance on
New Ways of Working for Psychiatrists in a Multi-disciplinary and
Multi-agency Context