The Victorian Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce Capability Framework sets out the skills, knowledge and ways of working that the workforce will require in the new integrated and responsive mental health and wellbeing system. It will be revised to keep pace with emerging and evolving needs.
MARAM practice guides: Guidance for professionals working with adults using family violence
Resource | 2020
Guidance for professionals working with child or adult victim survivors, and adults using family violence.
MARAM practice guides and resources
Resource | 2020
The Family Violence Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework ensures services are effectively identifying, assessing and managing family violence risk.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the provision of mental health care
Resource | 2020
The PPE guidance applies to all mental healthcare workers, including nurses, doctors, allied health, lived experience workforce, psychosocial disability support workers and other staff that are in direct contact with mental health consumers.
Healthcare Worker Wellbeing during COVID19
Resource | 2020
This resource list is primarily aimed at supporting health service organisations with a known and categorised compilation of Australian and international resources that may assist in the organisation’s approach to supporting their workforce’s wellbeing during COVID19
Victoria’s mental health services annual report 2018-19
Resource | 2020
Victoria’s mental health services annual report 2018-19 is a tool for health services, staff, advocates, carers, consumers and the broader community to better understand the Victorian public mental health system and the services available for people with a mental illness.
Pandemic Kindness Movement
Resource | 2020
The Pandemic Kindness Movement was created by clinicians across Australia, working together to support all health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have curated respected, evidence-informed resources and links to valuable services to support the wellbeing of the health workforce.
Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System Interim Report
Resource | 2019
The Royal Commission interim report contains a number of priority recommendations that address immediate needs and lay the foundations for a new approach to mental health. This is the first of two major reports by the Commission and represents a stocktake of what the Commission has learned so far.
Getting started with Telehealth
Resource | 2020
This page from the Telehealth Victoria - Community of Practice links to new guides on digital practice and telehealth.
COVID-19 Telehealth Guides
Resource | 2020
This quick guide to getting started with telehealth, using video conferencing or the telephone, has been jointly produced by the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine and the Australasian Telehealth Society.