Personality Disorder | Further information on Personality Disorders
The Personality Disorder Knowledge and Understanding Framework is a skills based
initiative being rolled out in partnership between the Department of Health and
the Nottingham Personality Disorder Institute (PDi). The PDi were funded
by Department of Health and Ministry of Justice to develop a comprehensive
package of training materials addressing Basic Awareness Level training needs
for clinical and non-clinical staff who may come into contact with people with
personality disorder. It is aimed
at a wide range of staff in all sectors and agencies that may have contact with
someone with a personality disorder.
Developing long term
sustainability of the awareness training by embedding it into existing staff
training systems, training trainers with expertise locally who can support
staff in developing their skills and transferring them into their work area is
the focus regionally during 2010/11. There is
a drive to develop local networks across all agencies, encourage partnership
working and to provide an inclusive service to people with personality
disorder.
Partners
The Meriden Programme have responsibility during 2010/11 to coordinate the delivery of the KUF basic awareness programme to 200 frontline practitioners. They will be delivering this in partnership with key providers within the region, to include the specialist personality disorder services in Coventry, Birmingham and North Staffordshire. Key partners will be identified to become trainers for the programme across the region. We will be working with the service user group Emergence to identify and train service users as trainers. Having trainers within each locality, on a multi agency level will be important for the long term sustainability of the project.
Who is eligible?
The KUF programme will be available to all prisons, probation services, Drug Action Teams and substance misuse treatment providers, Youth Offending Teams (YOTS), police services, learning disability services, mental health services, including statutory and third sector agencies. Work is being undertaken with Health commissioners to promote KUF training with all their service providers as part of induction and ongoing training for all staff, and with universities and nurse training centres to include KUF training as part of degree and diploma level courses in appropriate subjects.
Networks
There have been the
development of networks and learning events during 2009/10 for the
sharing of
good practice, and this work will be continued during 2010/11.
Reinforcing
these links and encouraging partnership working within and across
localities
will be the prime focus
For further information on
any of the regional personality disorder work please contact Becki Hipkins,
Programme Specialist, West Midlands Regional Development Centre at becki.hipkins@westmidlands.nhs.uk or 07775 668749
For further information on access to the KUF basic awareness training or Train the Trainer programme, please contact Martin Atchison at martin.atchison@bsmhft.nhs.uk
The next Learning Network
meeting will be held 12th October in the North Staffordshire
area. Further details of the
programme and venue will be available nearer the time, but to be included on
the invitation list, please email Julie Eldon at JulieA.Elden@northstaffs.nhs.uk