Mental health and wellbeing strategy: consultation
We want to hear your views on what a new mental health and wellbeing strategy for Scotland should look like. We have asked a series of questions, and your answers to these will help us write the final strategy.
Questions – Part 14
Our Vision and Outcomes for the Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce
Our vision is that the current and future workforce are skilled, diverse, valued and supported to provide person-centred, trauma-informed, rights-based, compassionate services that promote better population mental health and wellbeing outcomes.
To achieve this vision for our workforce and work towards longer term population and public health aims we have started to think about the outcomes that we need to achieve in the short and medium term.
We have consulted with partners and identified a series of outcomes for each of the five pillars of workforce planning set out in the National Workforce Strategy for Health and Social Care: Plan, Attract, Train, Employ and Nurture.
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| Plan |
Improved evidence base for workforce planning including population needs assessment for mental health and wellbeing |
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| Improved workforce data for different mental health staff groups |
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| Improved local and national workforce planning capacity and capability |
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| Improved capacity for service improvement and redesign |
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| User centred and system wide service (re) design |
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| Peer support and peer worker roles are a mainstream part of mental health services |
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| Attract |
Improved national and international recruitment and retention approaches/mechanisms |
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| Increased fair work practices such as appropriate channels for effective voice, create a more diverse and inclusive workplace |
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| Increased awareness of careers in mental health |
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| Train |
Long term workforce planning goals are reflected in and supported by training programmes provided by universities, colleges and apprenticeships |
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| Increased student intake through traditional routes into mental health professions |
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| Create alternative routes into mental health professions |
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| Create new mental health roles |
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| Improved and consistent training standards across Scotland, including trauma informed practice and cultural competency |
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| Our workforce feel more knowledgeable about other Services in their local area and how to link others in to them |
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| Our workforce is informed and confident in supporting self-care and recommending digital mental health resources |
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| Develop and roll out mental health literacy training for the health and care workforce, to provide more seamless support for physical and mental health |
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| Improved leadership training |
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| Improved Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and careers progression pathways |
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| Employ |
Consistent employer policies |
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| Refreshed returners programme |
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| Improved diversity of the mental health workforce and leadership |
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| Nurture |
Co-produced quality standard and safety standards for mental health services |
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| Safe working appropriate staffing levels and manageable workloads |
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| Effective partnership working between staff and partner organisations |
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| Improved understanding of staff engagement, experience and wellbeing |
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| Improved staff access to wellbeing support |
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| Improved access to professional supervision |
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14.4 Do you have any comments you would like to add on the above outcomes?
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| Comprehensive data and management information on the Mental Health and wellbeing workforce |
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| Effective workforce planning tools |
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| Good understanding of the gaps in workforce capacity and supply |
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| Improved governance and accountability mechanisms around workforce planning |
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| User centred and responsive services geared towards improving population mental health outcomes |
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| Staff feel supported to deliver high quality and compassionate care |
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| Leaders are able to deliver change and support the needs of the workforce |
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| Staff are able to respond well to change |
14.6 Do you have any comments you would like to add on the above outcomes?
14.7 Are there any other short and medium term outcomes we should be working towards? Please specify:
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