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Approved Mental Health Professional Refresher Training Events 2009. Bryn Hoyle & Jennifer McNally Workforce Development Unit North Yorkshire County Council. Workshop Day 1- 13/10/09. Continuing Professional Development (Bryn and Jennifer)
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Approved Mental Health ProfessionalRefresher Training Events2009 Bryn Hoyle & Jennifer McNally Workforce Development Unit North Yorkshire County Council
Workshop Day 1- 13/10/09 • Continuing Professional Development (Bryn and Jennifer) • Young People and the Mental Health Act (Dr Greg Richardson, CAMHS Psychiatrist) • Introduction to the IMHA Service • Mental Capacity Act interface with Mental Health Act (Alwyn Davies, Barnsley SSD)
Workshop Day 2 -22/10/09 • Learning Disability and the Mental Health Act (Dr Mark Lovell, LD Psychiatrist) • Transgender Awareness and the Mental Health Act (Gendershift)
Legal Days- 21/10/09 or 29/10/09 • A full day looking at recent legal developments in the Mental Health Act with Christine Hewitt (Mental Health Training) • Christine has a mental health background spanning many years. She was a member of the Mental Health Act Commission for nine years and is now a Lord Chancellor's Visitor and a Member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal. Christine is also a Visiting Lecturer at the School of Healthcare in the University of Leeds.
AMHP Continuing Professional Development Bryn Hoyle & Jennifer McNally Workforce Development Unit NYCC
What is CPD? • Not just a training requirement • Self-directed development • It's about where you want to be, and how you plan to get there. • A record of your learning • And a legal requirement…
CPD and the MHA • Conditions of approval • An AMHP’s approval is subject to the conditions that the AMHP shall: complete at least 18 hours training relevant to the AMHP role in each year of approval • the training to be agreed with the approving LSSA
CPD and NYCC • NYCC have agreed that a CPD model would be the best way of meeting this 18 hour requirement • One size does not fit all! • CPD puts the responsibility onto the AMHP to design their own training • WDU will provide 18 hours opportunity if required
What is ‘training’? • Not specified in MHA83 • Assumption that it must relate to an AMHPs ability to carry out their role under the Act • WDU training chosen and monitored by acting AMHPs • Doesn’t have to be formal classroom-based learning…
Undertaking formal additional related qualifications e.g. Best Interest Assessor • Attendance at formal courses (a normal day course is 6 hours) • Attendance at formal conferences/ seminars/ professional network meetings (e.g. YAMHP) • E-learning • Self directed private (or group) study/research including reading relevant literature or research papers or books, and perhaps discussing these with other AMHPs/colleagues/students • Visits to Mental Health services that you are not familiar with, such as specialist community teams or residential and in-patient units
AMHPs can also log where they have contributed to others’ learning in a specialist Mental Health situation by • Running or contributing to specialist Mental Health courses • Speaking at a conference/seminar • Acting as a practice supervisor/mentor for a trainee AMHP
CPD log • Identify learning interventions • Get agreement with your line manager if appropriate • Undertake the learning intervention • Write a short reflective statement about what you have learnt, and how it might impact on your practice. • Sign it off with your line manager
The NYCC AMHP Blog • http://northyorksamhps.blog.co.uk/ • Set up as an online resource for all AMHPs in North Yorkshire to use • Post links to articles, research, policy documents, events, meetings etc. • Register for email updates and comment • Sign up to website and post your own links • Will only work if it gets used!