Let's get real Human Resources Tool

Let’s get real is a framework that describes the essential knowledge, skills and attitudes required to deliver effective mental health and addiction services in New Zealand.

This Human Resources Tool must be read in conjunction with the Let’s get real Overview document which provides an extensive background and description of the Ministry of Health’s Let’s get real national initiative for developing the mental health and addiction workforce.

The objective of this Human Resources Tool is to support organisations to design, implement and review their human resource systems and processes to ensure they align with the Let’s get real framework. This alignment is to occur during the Let’s get real transition phase from 2008 to 2011.

The following processes and systems are addressed in this Human Resources Tool:

• recruitment
• selection
• orientation
• coaching and supervision
• performance development and management
• performance review
• stakeholder feedback.

This Human Resources Tool will support organisations that provide mental health or addiction services to acknowledge and incorporate the signifi cant benefi ts of key stakeholder engagement in the design, implementation and review of their human resource systems and processes.

It is acknowledged that a number of organisations already have comprehensive and best practice human resource systems and processes and, in many cases, these are controlled at a corporate level, for example in district health boards and national non-government organisations. This Human Resources Tool enables these organisations to identify how well their existing systems and processes align with the Let’s get real framework.

For those organisations that do not have comprehensive human resource systems and processes, this Human Resources Tool provides practical templates that can be used to integrate the Let’s get real framework.