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Mental Health TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT PROJECT www.camhs.org |
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The Higher Education Institutions (Health and Social Care Departments): This stream of the project is seeking to encourage and facilitate strategic thinking and planning in relation to education and training at various levels, including both pre-registration and post-qualification education and training across the health and social care sectors in the Kent and Medway region. Through a process of workshops and consultations with the three Higher Education Institutions that service Kent and Medway (Canterbury Christ Church University College, Greenwich University and the University of Kent at Canterbury), workforce planners and service and training commissioners a series of proposals for a strategy for joint provision of education and training relating to child and adolescent mental health and well-being were developed. SUMMARY
OF PROPOSALS: Proposal
1: Joint working between higher education institutions (HEIs),
commissioners and workforce planners (WDC) Proposal
2: A Kent and Medway agency or group should be established to ensure
the bench-marking of and co-ordinating of post-qualifying
multi-disciplinary training in child and adolescent mental health Proposal
3: Develop a set of core capabilities/ competencies for those working
with children and adolescents across sectors and specialisms Proposal
4: Development of a locally built skills escalator Proposal
5: The rolling out of pilot training projects Proposal
6: A system of kite or bench-marking child and adolescent mental
health training needs to be developed Proposal
7: Ensure the education and training offered reflects the service
needs Proposal
8: Adjust training models to increase access to training and
arrangements for career transfer Proposal 9: Integrate training with the service environment Proposal 10: Develop a joint accreditation and of prior experience and learning process (APEL) and of prior learning (APL)To read about these proposals more fully click here.
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