Statewide Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Educators
CMHL welcomed three Statewide Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Educator positions in 2020. In 2022 our Enrolled Nurse Team included five educators. As key members of the CMHL, the Educators worked to facilitate connections between MHENs across the state, and provide the most up-to-date training to progress the workforce.
A flyer with information about our work has been created to help connect us with the sector.
A colour A5 poster can be printed for displaying in your services.
Below is a list of the important work that the MHEN educator team undertook in 2022.
Mental Heath Enrolled Nurse Practice Network
With the appointment of the Statewide Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Educators, it was a great opportunity to develop the Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Practice Network which met every 2 months in 2022. We had guest speakers join us regularly, including a Consumer Consultant who updated the group about the new Safe Haven Cafe at RMH, and the Nursing and Midwifery Health Program Victoria chatted to us about worker wellbeing. With the addition of new EN Educators at services, a lot of reflections centered on this exciting new role.
The Objectives of the MHENPN group are:
- to ensure that timely and relevant two-way sharing of knowledge and expertise occurs between Mental Health Enrolled Nurses (MHEN) and the CMHL,
- to facilitate collaborative planning, training, and evaluation,
- to identify opportunities for partnership and collaboration
- to ultimately support the professional development of the Victorian MHEN workforce.
- to improve transparency of opportunities for growth making the mental health enrolled nurse a valuable employment option to maintain long-term (including support for EN3 promotion and specialty role development).
If you would like to know more or join the MHENPN please email us at en.educators@cmhl.org.au
Enrolled Nurse Introduction to Mental Health Day
We hosted 3 rounds of the Enrolled Nurse Introduction to Mental Health Day in 2022. This training day was developed for Enrolled Nurses newly entering the Victorian public clinical mental health workforce, and provided an opportunity for attendees to connect with peers and develop introductory knowledge in the following topics:
- the EN role in mental health
- the Mental Health System
- the Mental Health Act including Supported Decision Making
- Trauma Informed Care
- Consumer perspective
Training dates delivered:
16th March 2022
29th June 2022
27th October 2022
Over these 3 training day, 39 ENs attended and provided constructive feedback.
This successful training continued in 2023.
Statewide Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Workforce Scoping Project
The Centre for Mental Health Learning (CMHL) is pleased to provide the Statewide Mental Health Enrolled Nurse (MHEN) scoping report.
This report is the culmination of 8 months engagement with senior representatives from each Victorian Area Mental Health Service, including Forensicare. Direct consultation was also conducted with MHEN working in public mental health. Internal CMHL collation, analysis, and documentation of the data has been obtained from this process. This scoping report identifies the MHEN workforce profile across Victorian AMHS to support collaboration, growth, learning and development of our profession.
For information on past CMHL MHENs educator work:
2021 page visit here
2023 page visit here
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