Decision details

That the Cabinet Member for Health and Communities:

a)        approves the development and delivery of two different mental health training sessions which will complement the existing provision. One training session is a brief skills based mental health conversation training for staff and volunteers across Joined Up Care Derbyshire and the second is similar training for Derbyshire residents including parents

b)           approves the allocation of £0.084m of the Contain Outbreak Management Fund to Derbyshire Community Health Services (DCHS) by way of grant for this purpose.

There is a training need across the Joined Up Care Derbyshire workforce, and gap in the current training offer. The pilot work and peer-reviewed evidence suggests the training proposed will meet this need.

Quality Conversations is a well-respected accessible skills-based programme, that Public Health co-created and continues to steer, so it fits to work with the programme to commission and deliver this training

This model of commissioning and delivery means the programme aligns with our local priorities and grows our local assets and capacities. These conversations will be happening within Derbyshire, so local staff, who are local residents, are invested locally will add value to the programme

Do nothing. This would miss the opportunity to increase Derbyshire colleagues, volunteers and residents skills and confidence in discussing mental health.

        Commission an off-the-shelf mental health training offers that might be deemed suitable, however research has not identified an appropriate training offer. If a suitable training offer were available nationally, it would be much harder to tailor the offer to our specific system needs such as not duplicating existing offers.