Welcome to the New Ways of
Working Website
NWW has formed a significant part of
the NIMHE National Workforce Programme since it started in January
2003.
NWW is about changing the practice of the
current workforce; developing extended roles beyond the scope of
current professional practice and bringing in new people to the
workforce in new roles, at assistant and practitioner levels. There
is no single
model for NWW; it is simply about making the best use of the
skills in the workforce to meet need in a cost effective way.
There has been great enthusiasm shown by
Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Allied Health
Professions, Pharmacists, Nurses and Primary Care in exploring
what NWW means for them, and more importantly, what it means for
people who use mental health services and for their families and
supporters.
We published our interim report in
2004 and our final report on NWW for Psychiatrists in October 2005.
But this has never been just about psychiatrists; it has been a
multi-disciplinary process throughout. Our most recent production -
'NWW for Everyone' makes this explicit. Following the
publication of this report we have produced a
NWW
for Everyone Best Practice Implementation Guide which will
be published in October 2007. Please also see the
Strategic Summary.
This website is where the products of all of
the professional workstreams are made available. Although we
have worked with each professional group in mental health in order
to engage and learn from them, the direction of travel has been the
same for all: to develop teams and services based on the
capabilities required to meet service user and carer needs, rather
than based on a profession. There is no doubt that this poses
challenges for all, as it does mean a real shift in culture, custom
and practice.
We have produced the 'Creating
Capable Teams Approach', to help make this happen in
reality. We have already started working with facilitators to
familiarise them with the CCTA materials; and a new discussion
forum is now available for them to share their experiences of using
CCTA in multidisciplinary teams. The Toolkit is now available
here.
Reports about NWW for
Applied Psychologists are being added this month including:
- Positive Practice Report on the Contribution
of Psychologists in Improving Access to Psychological
Therapies: This is both a challenge and an opportunity for
Psychologists.
We have also added a report
from the NWW for Pharmacy, describing the Spread Programme of
NWW for Pharmacists.
Barry Foley, Steve
Humphries, Christine Vize and I have started running Collaborative
Learning Sets for senior staff in Trusts to implement NWW
strategically. So far, they are running in the North West,
North East, West Midlands, Yorkshire and Humber, East Midlands and
Eastern SHAs, covering 31 Trusts. If you work in
London, South East and South West and want to explore this
opportunity contact me roslyn.hope@csip.org.uk or Liz
Edgar eedgar@cru.rcpsych.ac.uk. It
is already clear that there is huge variation across Trusts and
there is much to share.
We will be adding to the
website and want you to help us in this, by sending us examples of
local positive practice and by having a dialogue about the
difficulties and opportunities it is presenting. A good
example of this is the development of the Virtual
Ward, and the
final report from Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
about their NWW within mental health services teams.
Roslyn Hope
Director of NIMHE National
Workforce Programme
NOW AVAILABLE - Psychological Therapies
Documents
As part of the IAPT
Programme Implementation Plan, the following documents are
now available to download. Click on the link to download the
document you require:
** - key documents to
download, especially for SHAs, education providers and so
on
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on forums already set up:
- New Ways of Working Learning Sets - split into regions
- Medicines Management Learning Set
- Creating Capable Teams
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forums setting up please contact amy.vollans@nimheneyh.nhs.uk.