Leadership training
Leadership Recommendations: Strengthening the support available to people who become involved by making appropriate training available.
This document was written in conjunction with the Commissioning Guidelines for supporting local involvement– Making a Real Difference Resource Pack.The two documents were developed to address recommendations 5 & 11 of the Making a Real Difference report.
Recommendations 5 and 11
| Recommendation 5: A key focus for NIMHE should be enabling and supporting service users and carers to be involved in local groups. NIMHE needs to work with commissioners to support investment in the development of local mental health service user and carer groups. Recommendation 11: NIMHE needs to strengthen the support that is available to service users and carers who become involved. This needs to include a clear process of induction and training as well as ongoing support. Attention needs to be paid to the development needs which arise when there is a change in role, for example moving to being involved at a regional level to being involved at a national level. |
The overall aim of our task – commissioning and capacity building
We interpreted our task as being about improving the capacity of service users, carers and families to take part in local, regional or national involvement, service improvement work, self-help support and service provision.
The following leadership recommendations specifically focus on addressing the issues raised in recommendation 11. They are designed to assist NIMHE and its staff in developing training and support packages which will effectively support and build the capacity of people who are involved in NIMHE and its work programmes.
