Mental health and wellbeing strategy: consultation

Questions – Part 15

The Scope of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce

In order to inform the scope of the workforce we need to achieve our ambitions, it is essential that we build consensus around the definition of who is our mental health and wellbeing workforce. We hope that such a definition can be applied to describe the future workforce.

Please read the following statements and select as many options as you feel are relevant.

15.1 The mental health and wellbeing workforce includes someone who may be:

• Employed
• Voluntary
• A highly specialised Mental Health worker, such as a psychiatrist, psychologist, mental health nurse or counsellor
• Any health and social care or public sector worker whose role is not primarily related to mental health but contributes to public mental health and wellbeing
• A social worker or Mental Health Officer
• Someone with experience of using mental health services, acting as a peer support worker

15.2 The mental health and wellbeing workforce includes someone who may work / volunteer for:

• The NHS
• The social care sector
• Social work services
• The third and charity sectors
• Wider public sector (including the police, criminal justice system, children's services, education)
• The private sector
• Other

15.3 If you selected 'other', please specify:

15.4 The mental health and wellbeing workforce includes someone who may be found in:

• Hospitals
• GP surgeries
• Community settings (such as care homes)
• The digital space, providing internet or video enabled therapy
• Educational settings (such as schools, colleges or universities)
• Employment settings
• Justice system settings (such as police stations, prisons or courts)
• Other

15.5 If you selected 'other', please specify:

15.6 The mental health and wellbeing workforce includes someone who may:

• Complete assessments for the presence or absence of mental illness
• Provide treatment and/or management of diagnosed mental illness
• Provide ongoing monitoring of diagnosed mental illness
• Undertake work to prevent the development of mental illness
• Undertake work to address factors which may increase the risk of someone developing mental illness
• Provide support to families of those with mental illness
• Provide direct support on issues which affect wellbeing, but might not be directly related to a diagnosed mental illness, such as housing, financial issues, rights
• Other

15.7 If you selected 'other', please specify: