Attract people from diverse backgrounds to careers in health and social care
This page describes who the framework is for, how it will benefit service users and its ambitions.
Who is the framework for?
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New to working in Mental Health
Existing Employees
Line Managers
Leaders
The important message is you do not need any formal qualifications to start your journey and you do not need any experience.
What we are looking for are individuals with the values outlined and who have a passion for working in community mental health services across London. The skills framework is to help you navigate your journey – we do not expect you to have all the skills immediately.
As an existing member of the team you may be at the start of your role, or very familiar with it and our services. The framework contains a wealth of information which you may find helpful to talk to your manager about, help with your performance appraisal and provide you with information on how you can support your personal and career development.
As service line managers, team leaders, supervisors and HR teams or trainers, the framework sets out some skills for our support workforce which we hope will set a standard across London for those working in community mental health services. The framework may help you to attract, interview, appoint and develop your workforce.
As leaders the framework provides a range of high quality information to help you guide and steer service development. The implementation guide explains how you can use the framework to:
- Attract applicants from diverse backgrounds
- Retain and develop the existing workforce
- Support staff to provide the best care and tackle health inequalities for our service users.
How will it benefit service users?
- Ensure that our service users receive high quality personalised care;
- Help identify and tackle health inequalities and break down barriers that our service users face in getting the care they need;
- Support people from our local communities with lived experience of poor mental health to pursue health and social care careers
Our Ambitions for the Framework
Retain and develop our existing workforce
Guides managers and organisations in supporting people working in these roles
Support our staff to provide the best care and tackle health inequalities for our service users