Intended audience: All SMH&AS Registered Nurses
Duration: 8 hours
Course contact: Michelle Dawson or Carole Schneebeli
Course editor: Jocelyn Byrd
About this course
WDHB Specialist Mental Health and Addictions Services presents Senior Nurse Symposium. Range of presenters.
Intended audience: SMH&AS clinicians working in Early Psychosis Intervention (EPI) and Adult Community Teams.
Duration: 8 hours
About this course
This training aims to up skill clinicians about cognitive difficulties and our they impact that has on the people we work with.
Intended audience: Clinicians working in Mental Health
Page contact: Linda Ritchie
About this page
This page is designed to inform clinicians about the Mental Health Act.
The page is made up of;
- Video presentations that were presented as part of the Occupational Therapy & Social Worker workshop series in October 2020
- PowerPoint presentations
- Mental Health Act documentation and hand outs
Intended audience: SMHAS staff
Duration: Total 12 hours
- 4 hours e learning module prior to face to face
- 8 hour face to face workshop
- Please send pre learning certificate to Jocelyn Byrd who will confirm a place onto the Face to face workshop.
- Both pre learning and face to face workshop are required to be signed off completely .
About this course
SSFC training is
especially suited to practitioners working in adult mental health and
addictions services, where the service user is typically seen on their
own. This is because the SSFC process is designed to help
practitioners make the shift from individual engagement to family/whānau
engagement in a manner that does not threaten the practitioner’s
existing relationship with the service user.
It is important to
remember that facilitating a single session consultation, which may
include children and other family members, is about engaging with the
family and problem solving, rather than family therapy.
SSFC training is also useful for practitioners working with infants, children and young people. While many practitioners often work with parents, caregivers, whānau and children, SSFC provides a framework for involving other family members such as a non-custodial or separated parent, grandparents, aunts and uncles, or anyone that the service user, or in the case of younger children, their parents want to include.
SSFC can help to guide the conversation about who to involve, in what timeframe and what will or not be discussed in the session.
Participants: open to any clinicians where this has been identified as a gap in the team.
Duration: 8 hours
About this course
Acceptance and commitment Therapy (ACT) is a form of counselling and a branch of clinical behaviour analysis. It is an empirically-based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies mixed in different ways. ACT uses commitment and behaviour-change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility. This training will provide clinicians with the tools necessary to utilise evidence based skills to enhance the wellbeing of Service Users.
Please note: Prior to signing up to attend this course please ensure you have discussed with your manager and gained approval to attend so that appropriate measures are taken to manage staff cover in your absence from your role.
Participants: All employees new to the Waitemata DHB Mental Health Services Group other than CADS which has its own internal process.
Duration: 4 hours
About this course
Orientation is for staff new to to WDHB Mental Health Services working in adult, CYF, MHSOA, Takanga a Fohe and Whitiki Maurea. Following the mihi whakatau (a Māori welcome) attendees will have the opportunity to meet others across SMH&AS. The orientation will help you to understand the significance of Māori cultural perspectives and priority areas for WDHB SMH&AS. The roles of the Consumer Representative and Family Advisor will also be introduced. Staff will be orientated to key information like policies as well as further training requirements.
This is a series of videos with Amanda Mark for clinicians to get clarity and orientate new graduates and staff new to mental health. It is not a course that is completed for hours credited, but a bank of resources that are helpful.
Participants: Open to registered clinical staff with a sound knowledge of working with people with schizophrenia and have some knowledge of cognitive rehabilitation and are committed to using CRT in practice with their clients on going.
Duration: 16 hours, two full days
Course contact: Linda Ritchie
Course Facilitators: Katrina Wallis (RNZOT), Wieteke Idzerda (RNZOT), & Sophie Semite (RNZOT)
About this course
People diagnosed with mental illness that experience psychosis may also be impacted by cognitive impairment.
Improvements such as in memory and attention have been found with therapies that target these areas. (Lieberman, 2008). Recent developments in cognitive rehabilitation have seen an increase in the number of studies claiming success in improved cognitive processes and overall functioning (National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence, 2008) However, evidence suggests targeting remediation of cognition alone is less effective than an intervention that incorporates adaptive/compensatory interventions and social cognition skills to support performance in day to day activities. (Harvey et al, 2012; O’Carrol, 2010: McGurk et al, 2007: McGurk et al, 2013)
The Cognitive Remediation Therapy (CRT) programme taught on this course is based on the proof of concept that was run in 2016 at WDHB and the CRT training from Kings College London. It aims to support people to improve thinking skills with the ultimate aim of improving quality of life.
Summary of content
Topics to be covered include:
(a) CRT research and evidence
(b) The theoretical background to CRT
(c) A model for targeting metacognitive thinking skills and how they may relate to everyday living skills
(d) The core skills needed to for clinicians to use CRT effectively with service users.
(e) Assessment and formulation
(f) Clinical issues in delivering CRT and therapist competences
(g) service-related issues (e.g. the practicalities of therapy and how it may be accommodated within services).
Please note: Prior to signing up to attend this course please ensure you have discussed with your manager and gained approval to attend so that appropriate measures are taken to manage staff cover in your absence from your role.
Intended audience: All SMH&AS clinicans
Duration: 30 minutes
About this course
This video based course introduces the MoH initiative Supporting Parents Healthy Children. It also includes three clinical coaching videos recorded with some WDHB clincians who agreed to be part of this series.
You will need
Ear headphones to listen from work PCs.
Participants: Occupational Therapists and Social Workers in mental health at Waitemata District Health Board.
Duration: 4 hours
Course contact: Jocelyn Byrd
About this course
A series of themed workshops are available for OT and SWs working in mental health at Waitemata District Health Board.
Please note: Prior to signing up to attend this course please ensure you have discussed with your manager and gained approval to attend so that appropriate measures are taken to manage staff cover in your absence from your role.
Participants: Experienced clinicians who have agreed with their managers that this is development goal.
Duration: 12 hours
About this course
Supervision well implemented clinical supervision is considered to be key in providing high quality services with positive outcomes for service users. It is essential to a well-trained, highly skilled and supported workforce, and impacts positively on retention and motivation.
This course will help participants build skills and competency in providing clinical supervision to meet the needs of the evolving services and service users.
Please note: Prior to signing up to attend this course please ensure you have discussed with your manager and gained approval to attend so that appropriate measures are taken to manage staff cover in your absence from your role.
This workshop is for any nurse, occupational therapist or social worker working in mental health and addictions who is outside of the new grad programme.
It can be a refresher or initial training in how to be an effective preceptor.
We review the roles and responsibilities of preceptor and preceptee plus explore the most effective ways to give feedback to undergraduates on their competency development and goals of placement.
Intended audience: All Mental Health Clinicians from Waitemata DHB
Duration: 2 day course held over 2 consecutive weeks 0900-1600. Must be committed to both days.
About this course
This programme focusses on screening, assessment & treatment strategies, and utilising Motivational Interviewing to engage clients in addressing both mental health and alcohol and other drug concerns.Intended audience:
- In patient staff clinical staff who work closely with service users with suspected or diagnosed FASD
- Open to all SMH&AS staff who work with service users with suspected or diagnosed FASD
Duration: 2 hours
About this course:
This in-service was delivered by Dr Valerie McGinn on 17th October 2019 at He Puna Wairoa for SMH&AS staff. The aim of the presentation was to equip relevant staff to gain more understanding about FASD and to be able to better work with services users who present with FASD or FASD symptoms.
