Statewide Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Educators
Through 2023 the Statewide Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Educator Team was made up of three Educators, all having full time positions. As key members of the CMHL, the Educators work 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 2023.
Training and Events
Enrolled Nurse Introduction to Mental Health Day
We hosted 2 rounds of the Enrolled Nurse Introduction to Mental Health Day in 2023. This training day is for Enrolled Nurses newly entering the Victorian public clinical mental health workforce, and provides 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:
Tuesday 4th April 2023
Tuesday 31st October 2023
Over these 2 training day, 25 ENs attended and provided constructive feedback.
This successful training continued in 2024.
Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Video Series
The Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Educator team have developed an ongoing video series that will cover a variety of topics around the interests of the enrolled nurse workforce. These are designed to be short, bite sized videos that can be accessed easily on the CMHL website.
You can access these via the Learning & Resources tab from the home page, then into CMHL Recorded Sessions, under Topic 5. EN Video Series.
Videos that are currently available:
- Intro to Clinical Supervision for Mental Health Enrolled Nurses
- MHEN Clinician Wellbeing
- Psychiatric Enrolled Nurse (PEN) Level 3 Advancement on bed base services
- Dual Disability
Enrolled Nurses - Finding Your Voice
In 2023 the EN team developed a new training and development package to support Enrolled Nurses working in mental health. This training was delivered in person at services with EN teams. The day included:
- Unpacking challenges of the EN role
- How to have difficult conversations
- Building resilience
- Finding joy in work
The team wanted to offer this day to regional services first and have currently delivered this training day to 3 different services. We are increasing this to more services through 2024.
Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Forum
The Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Forum occurred on Thursday 7th September, 2023! This was an exciting event with a rich history of bringing ENs from across the state together to celebrate their workforce and connect with each other. The event showcased presentations from ENs working in different areas of the mental health sector.
Details about the forum can be found here: Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Forum
Meetings and Collaboration
Mental Heath Enrolled Nurse Practice Network
We have moved into the second year of the MHENPN, and we look forward to growing our membership and evolving with the group. The Network is open to all experienced mental health enrolled nurse. We meet to reflect and hear from key members of the mental health workforce.
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 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 MHEN practice network please email us at en.educators@cmhl.org.au.
Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Educator Meeting
MHEN Educators from across the state come together bi-monthly to facilitate networking, share educator resources, and identify opportunities for partnership and collaboration.
If you would like to know more or you are an MHEN Educator who would like to attend, please email us at en.educators@cmhl.org.au.
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
2022 page visit here
Enquiries
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