The contribution of social work in mental health services Dr Lynn - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Dr Lynn Prendergast, Associate Director of Social Care, Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Karen Cook, Head of Social Work and Social Care, Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust Robert Lewis, AMHP Service Manager, Devon County Council and member of the AMHP Leads Steering Group

The contribution of social work in mental health services

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Context

• Social workers have been a core part of the workforce in

voluntary and private sector organisations – increasingly being employed in NHS Trusts, often integral to multidisciplinary teams

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Why social work?

• Empower to make positive change to lives to improve

wellbeing and independence

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Strengths of social work

• Social workers should enable people to make positive

change in their lives to improve their wellbeing, independence and wellbeing.

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Where is social work?

• Social workers work in diverse settings/teams across the

NHS-recovery teams, perinatal, complex care, forensic, family group conference

• A minority profession in the NHS

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Difficulties for social work?

• Role is often not well understood
• Genericism has diluted different skill sets rather than

enhanced them

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Why raise the profile for social work?

Social work is key to innovation;

• through better focused and more confident roles
• deliver NHS Long Term Plan
• role clarity is crucial to impact

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Why develop resources about the role?

• Visibility/pride/voice
• Continual need for education of other professions
• Supports the role of managers in shared learning
• Linked to new CPD and shared learning framework

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What is it like to work in the NHS?

• Challenging

What is it like to work in the NHS?

• Working with:
• Stigma
• Discrimination
• Human rights
• Environmental issues

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“As I went to numerous professional gatherings of social workers and AMHPs I experienced their enthusiasm for their role, which convinced me that we should not touch the critical balance between the social and medical perspectives, or more accurately between health and social care, enshrined in the 1959 Act, but should strengthen those links”

Dr Simon Wesley – Chair of the Independent Mental Health Act Review, 2018

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‘I was acutely suicidal and saw no other way out’: How being sectioned saved my life – Metro - 2 November 2017 “Leeds woman reveals 'trauma' of mental health detention” - BBC - 21 November 2019 ‘A place where time stands still’: This is what it’s really like to be sectioned - Metro - 4 September 2017

Mental Health Act ‘needs major reform’ as black patients four times as likely as whites to be sectioned – The Independent – 5 December 2018

‘When it all goes right’: how a kick ass AMHP helped me in a crisis – Community Care - 11 July 2017

Being sectioned at 18: Degrading and life- saving - rethink.org - 4 October 2018

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• Summarises the current

context around AMHP service provision, national developments, data and research

• Recruitment and retention

issues

• Current challenges
• Draft AMHP Service

Standards

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The role of the AMHP – e-learning module

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The role of the AMHP – e-learning module

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• Local authority governance

and connection to national and regional AMHP networks

• Governance within 24-hour

AMHP services

• AMHP service scope
• AMHPs’ personal,

professional, physical and psychological safety

• Service and professional

development

• Improving the experience of

people who come into contact with AMHP services

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