Welcome to the NMHWDC

We are the National Mental Health Workforce Development Collaborative – a virtual centre of excellence around mental health education, training and workforce transformation. Our Collaborative is a voluntary organisation of mental health trusts across England working together. Read more

Collaborative mental health workshops are organised virtually  on a quarterly basis for strategic leaders.  We are inviting the Director of Nursing, Director of Human Resources and Director of Organisational Development / Training. The workshops focus on strategic workforce issues within mental health settings from a provider view. The schedule of the meetings is:

  • 28 February 2022– Workforce stress and the supportive organisation
  • 23 May 2022 – How to support workforce providing care to children and young people’s mental health inpatient settings?
  • 26 September 2022 – How to ensure an essential supply of AHPs? Considerations and priorities for increasing supply of AHP and delivering local workforce plans?
  • 28 November 2022 – How to grow a support workforce to meet NHS ambitions?