Workforce Development Programme 2012

Disability Awareness

Kiwi 360, State Hwy 2, Te Puke This full day workshop will provide participants with an introduction to Disability services and the frameworks, models and strategies that guide disability services in New Zealand. This is workshop suitable for Healthcare workers new to mental health and disability services, and for existing Healthcare workers looking to gain a greater understanding of Disability services.

CBT Introduction

Kiwi 360, State Hwy 2, Te Puke Talking therapies, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), are being more widely recognised and utilised as an efficacious treatment for many of the commonly seen mental health disorders within our communities. Clients undertaking CBT with a trained therapist can find themselves at a challenging and sometimes daunting precipice to change, requiring support and understanding from whanau and the variety of health workers that may be supporting their journey.

Let's Get Real: Values & Attitudes

Kiwi 360, State Hwy 2, Te Puke Let’s get real is a framework that intends to support the Mental Health and Addictions workforce to achieve the Workforce and Culture for Recovery challenge of Te Tahuhu – Improving Mental Health 2005- 2015 : to build a workforce that supports recovery, is person centered, is culturally capable and delivers an on-going commitment to assure and improve the quality of services for people. Let’s get real, focuses on seven real skills. This workshop supports the implementation the real skills within your workplace, at practitioner and essential levels. The workshop will be delivered in accordance with the learning module for the real skill chosen.

Hearing Voices

Kiwi 360, State Hwy 2, Te Puke This workshop is designed for all people who work within the mental health and related sectors and will discuss current research regarding psychosis and voice hearing. The learner will be provided with some techniques to assist with distressing voices. A normalising approach to voice hearing will be taken, and there will be acknowledgement that it is often the impact of the voice hearing experience that causes stress to the people we work with.

Let's Get Real: Challenging stigma & discrimination

Kiwi 360, State Hwy 2, Te Puke Let’s Get Real is a framework that intends to support the Mental Health and Addictions workforce to achieve the Workforce and Culture for Recovery challenge of Te Tahuhu – Improving Mental Health 2005- 2015: to build a workforce that supports recovery, is person centred, is culturally capable and delivers an ongoing commitment to assure and improve the quality of services for people. Let’s get real, focuses on seven real skills. This workshop supports the implementation of the real skill ‘Challenging Stigma and Discrimination’ within your workplace, at practitioner and essential levels. The workshop will be delivered in accordance with the learning module for challenging stigma and discrimination.

CBT Techniques in practice

Kiwi 360, State Hwy 2, Te Puke Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), alongside other talking therapies, offers those working in the health sector many skills readily available in helping support clients in their recovery from mental health difficulties. This course will select specific skills from CBT to help those not currently trained in talking therapies to better understand and work with clients who experience distress by using the basic model of CBT

Co-existing disorders

Kiwi 360, State Hwy 2, Te Puke Co-Existing mental health and addiction problems otherwise known as ‘CEP’ are common within mental health and addiction settings. Health workers may be aware of CEP but often feel less-equipped and lack confidence to work with these issues. This workshop provides an introduction to CEP and uses the principles of best practice, activities, and group discussion to build learners confidence and provide practical tools to work at both the service and individual levels.

Disability Awareness - Part 2

Kiwi 360, State Hwy 2, Te Puke This full day workshop has been designed to build on participant’s knowledge of disability services as covered in the introduction to disability workshop. The workshop will focus on responding to the needs of people with specific disabilities within Mental Health and Addictions services

Challenging Behaviours

Kiwi 360, State Hwy 2, Te Puke This workshop explores how to understand and respond to challenging behaviours; through activities, discussion and debate, learners will explore approaches to challenging situations, explore their personal values within a range of relationship contexts, identify strategies to engage meaningfully with people using mental health, addiction and disability services and their peers and actively reflect on their own practice.

Report Writing

Kiwi 360, State Hwy 2, Te Puke Mental Health Professionals are familiar with the preparation of clinical/professional reports, but are less familiar and often less equipped to prepare management/business documents. This one day workshop will enhance on existing knowledge and equip participants with a framework and skills to develop effective business writing.

Let's Get Real: Team planning tool

Kiwi 360, State Hwy 2, Te Puke Let’s get real is a framework that describes the essential knowledge, skills and attitudes required to deliver effective mental health and addiction services in New Zealand. Te Pou has developed a range of resources to enable the implementation of Let’s get real. One of these resources is the Team Planning Tool which has a two-fold objective: 1) To provide processes that will support services to include Let’s get real in planning, budgeting, delivering and evaluating their services 2) To assist services to develop a team profile and workforce plan to improve the skills of team members in the seven Real Skills. This workshop will enable learners to facilitate the use of the Team Planning Tool and is suitable for anybody working in the Northern Region mental health and addiction services who has a training, quality or leadership role.

Informed consent

Kiwi 360, State Hwy 2, Te Puke This workshop will consider the definition of informed consent in New Zealand and within the mental health sector and ways of ensuring informed consent from service users that cover times when consent is not able to be obtained. The main mechanisms for achieving this are Advance Directives, Enduring Power of Attorney and Information Sharing Agreements.

Key Legislation in mental health

Kiwi 360, State Hwy 2, Te Puke This introductory workshop aims to increase participant’s knowledge of six key pieces of legislation. In addition we will explore the essence of each Act or Code, why it was created, and its relevance in mental health services. ? The Privacy Act (1993) ? The Health Information Privacy Code (1994) ? The Protected Disclosures Act (2000) ? The Code of Health & Disability Services Consumers Rights (1996) ? The Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment & Treatment) Act (1992) ? The Protection of Personal Property Rights Act (1988)