The NSW Service Plan emphasises having the Right People with the Right Skills in the Right Place. This highlights the need for a skilled, multidisciplinary workforce to support people with eating disorders across all levels of care. To achieve this, InsideOut efforts focus on building workforce Capacity and Capability across all NSW Health Services, providing NSW Health staff with training opportunities. This helps to ensure that individuals and their families receive high-quality, evidence-informed care close to home.
Background: The Service Plan emphasises having the Right People with the Right Skills in the Right Place.
People with eating disorders often require support from
health professionals from various clinical backgrounds,
with knowledge and skills in caring for a person with an eating disorder.
Provision of the full range of interventions from prevention to specialist care requires multidisciplinary expertise from a range of professions including:
• mental health clinicians including psychiatrists psychologists; mental health nurses, social workers, occupational therapists; peer workers, community/cultural mental health workers; Aboriginal mental health workers;
• medical specialists such as general physicians and paediatricians and from a range of speciality areas (e.g. endocrinology, gastroenterology, cardiology);
• nurses;
• allied health clinicians including dietitians, physiotherapists;
• drug and alcohol clinicians;
• general practitioners; and
• the health promotion workforce.
Aims: Build workforce Capacity and Capability across all NSW Health Services
Outcomes: Provide NSW Health staff with opportunities to develop skills when providing care to people with an eating disorder and their families and carers.
Impact: People with an eating disorder that present to NSW Health facilities will be provided with quality evidence informed care close to home.
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