What the Royal Commission said
The Royal Commission recommended a new Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce Capability Framework.
The framework will detail the knowledge, skills and attributes of a diverse, multidisciplinary mental health and wellbeing workforce. It will guide capability development across the workforce.
The Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing will support capability building. It will work with training providers, mental health and wellbeing services and people with lived experience to coordinate learning and professional development activities across the workforce.
The Royal Commission identified challenges with the capabilities of the current workforce. These include:
- a need for a cohesive system wide capability setting entity
- a lack of capability planning for the future system
- a lack of access to capability improvement for mental health and wellbeing professionals.
What are we doing?
Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce Capability Framework
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce Capability Framework ‘Our workforce, our future’ was released in December 2023.
Training resources and tools have been developed to support implementation of Our workforce, our future.
Sector engagement has included consultation and 11 forums across the 8 mental health and wellbeing regions. The forums are the first step in setting up Local Implementation Teams (LITs) in the regions to drive implementation on a local level. Each LIT will develop resources for capability uplift to be shared across the sector.
Find out more about the capability framework for Victoria's mental health and wellbeing workforce.
Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce Strategy
The capability framework is part of Victoria's Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce Strategy 2021-2024.
The strategy sets out priority activities to attract, train and support the workforce needed in the reformed system.
Reviewed 09 October 2024