Over The Horizon: “The Future of the Social Care Workforce in Integrated Mental Health Services”
Tuesday March 23rd 2010
EMMTEC Building,
University of Lincoln
Chair and Keynote Speakers
- Jim Symington Deputy Director National Mental Health Development Unit
- Dr. Julie Repper Reader and Associate Professor of Metal Health Nursing and Social Care, University of Nottingham
- Ruth Allen Director of Social Work, South west London and St George’s Mental Health Trust
- Jacqui Dillon Chair, Hearing Voices Network, UK
- Chris Merchant Former National Lead CSIP, Mental Health Act Workforce; Project Lead Lincolnshire
Additional speakers and Workshop Leaders to be confirmed
Topics to be addressed
- Defining the future of social work and the social care workforce for the future
- The skill mix within multi-disciplinary teams – where does social care fit?
- The social care workforce in Recovery
- Best practice models of social care in Partnership Trusts
- Improving Local Authority Governance resulting from the demands of personalisation, safeguarding and emerging budget pressures
- Developing Leaders and Leadership for social care within Partnership Trusts
- The implications of the Task Force for mental health social workers
“We are entering an exciting period in health and social care,
when people will increasingly have more control over their health,
their care and treatment. More and more, the job of professionals
will be to support them in this. Our job in government is to help
set this direction, while at the same time recognising the
particular challenges in mental health”.
Phil Hope MP: Minister of State for Care Services (New Horizons)
2010 and the next decade represent a significant milestone in the journey of the development of approaches to mental health care and treatment in our society. The publication of New Horizons in December 2009 heralds a further step towards personal control over a person’s health, care and treatment and indicates the need for significant changes to both the nature of professional work in mental health, and their roles. It is ironic that at a time when major policy developments would seem to be underpinned by the values and approaches of social work, that many in the social care workforce feel undervalued, insecure about their future role, for some, if there will be a role at all in future integrated mental health care provision.
This conference aims to explore the key ingredients of best practice in social care delivery, the implications for the social care workforce, and support the development of a national template for best practice in mental health care provision, thus clarifying and redefining the future of social work within integrated mental health service provision.
Delegates will hear from key note speakers who are committed to taking this agenda forward in practical ways and exploring key opportunities for re stating the contribution of the social care workforce in this coming decade of mental health policy
This Conference is essential for:
- NHS and Social Service mental health senior management;
- Commissioners;
- Social work and social care staff;
- Social work educators;
- Partnership managers
- Service users and carers
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Booking
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Travel Information
Road
Road access is via the A1 with intersections at Newark (A46) from the South and near Retford (A57) from the North. The city is 40 miles east of Nottingham on the A46 and 40 miles south of the Humber Bridge on the A15.
Rail
Lincoln station is a few minutes walk from the campus.
London Kings Cross is less than two hours away.
Air
Humberside Airport is 40 minutes away with domestic, European flights and international links available. East Midlands Airport is an hour's drive and Birmingham International an hour and a half.
- East Midlands Airport links
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