Essential Shared Capabilities (ESC) Learning Materials

 

The pace of change in contemporary mental health service models presents significant challenges to education and training providers. There continues to be concerns about the utility and relevance of much current education and training provision in such a fast changing environment. Admittedly there are distinct advantages in multidisciplinary and shared training, much of the coordination and delivery of programmes remaining fragmented.

 

Service users, their families and carers continue to report not being listened to and little account taken of their needs. It is clear that the notions of recovery, social inclusion and citizenship should form the cornerstones of all mental health work.

 

The Ten Essential Shared Capabilities (ESC) project has been established by the NIMHE National Workforce Programme to begin addressing these issues. The ESC descriptions lay out the capabilities that all staff working in mental health services should achieve as a minimum part of core curricula of All training programmes. 

 

The ESC promote education and training that is not only much more responsive to the needs of service users, but also supports practitioners to utilise the capabilities required by modern mental health services.

 

NIMHE have developed a range of training resources, all linked to the ESC. As more ESC projects are completed, there will be more ESC Learning materials produced. Based on feedback from people who use these materials we plan to continuously improve them and published revised versions. the currently available materials are:

 

• Essential Shared Capabilities (Version 2)

• Creating and Inspiring Hope (Recovery, Version 2)

• Dual Diagnosis (Version 1)

• Race Equality and Cultural Capability (Version 1)

Download the ESC Pilot Materials Evaluation Report

 

 

Download the learning materials

 

If you require additional information about these issues please contact Ian McGonagle on 07887 651 492.