Let's get real Team Planning Tool

Let’s get real (Ministry of Health, 2008a) is a framework that describes the essential knowledge, skills and attitudes required to deliver effective mental health and addiction services in New Zealand.

This Team Planning Tool must be read in conjunction with the Let’s get real Overview document (available from www.tepou.co.nz/letsgetreal) 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 the Team Planning Tool is to:

• provide processes that will support services to include Let’s get real in planning, budgeting, delivering and evaluating their services
• assist services to develop a team profi le and workforce plan to improve the skills of team members in the seven Real Skills.

The Team Planning Tool supports organisations that provide mental health or addiction services to acknowledge and incorporate the signifi cant benefi ts of key stakeholder engagement in designing, implementing and reviewing their service delivery.

It is acknowledged that a number of organisations have comprehensive and best practice planning systems and processes and, in many cases, these are controlled at a corporate level, for example district health boards and national non-government organisations. The Team Planning Tool enables these organisations to identify how well their planning and workforce development activities align with the Let’s get real framework.

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

Te Pou would like to thank you for providing leadership by initiating the inclusion of Let’s get real into your organisation’s planning and workforce development, and thereby supporting the overall goal of a more responsive and skilled workforce for the mental health and addiction sector.