Happy new year everyone. Te Pou offices are now open for 2021.
Happy new year everyone. Te Pou offices are now open for 2021.
Real Skills is a free online self-assessment tool available to organisations in the health and disability sectors. It has been developed by Te Pou o te Whakaaro Nui and Matua Raḵi to provide an easy way for organisations and the workforce to assess knowledge and skills and plan targeted workforce development.
To work well with people who are experiencing mental health and addiction needs, or with disabilities, we need to demonstrate competency in many areas of practice. If your organisation is using or wants to use any of the following frameworks then Real Skills can provide you with an easy way to gather, access and review information on your workforce’s knowledge and skills.
This information can help to identify particular areas that might need development in order to provide best care for people accessing services.
Workers can assess themselves against any of these frameworks, based on which is relevant to them and their role at any point in time:
Real Skills provides the ability for organisations to sign up their entire workforce in order to generate organisational, service and/or team level reports. These reports aggregate anonymous self-assessment information from any framework that the organisation has identified is relevant to their work.
This information can then be used to create workforce development plans in the specific areas where the greatest needs have been identified.
All assessment information is securely stored in people’s profiles and they can easily return and update as required.
To determine whether your organisation will benefit from Real Skills online assessment tool, are the following statements true for your organisation?
Sign up your organisation, or to find out more about Real Skills online and whether it is right for your organisation, please contact Rachel Kapeli.
On behalf of the Ministry of Health, Te Pou o te Whakaaro Nui has launched a refreshed Let's get real framework of knowledge, skills, values and attitudes for working with people and whānau with mental health and addiction needs, wherever they are within a health setting.
This resource describes the essential attitudes, values, knowledge and seven Real Skills needed to work in disability. Easy read format available.
This framework describes the knowledge and skills required by the mental health and addiction workforce to be able to effectively respond to the needs of people, and their families and whānau, with co-existing problems.
Choose which list to add this to, or create a new one!