The non‐professionally qualified workforce: a focus on the new roles of the support, time and recovery worker and the community development worker

Abstract

One of the key initiatives of the National Institute of Mental Health in England National Workforce Programme (NIMHE NWP) has been to explore the development and sustainability of the non‐professionally qualified workforce (NPQW). Both the National Service Framework (NSF) for Mental Health (Department of Health, 1999) and the wider Department of Health Changing Workforce Programme (Department of Health, 2001) provided a unique opportunity to start this process off.

Citation

Allcock, J. and Hollingsworth, N. (2009), "The non‐professionally qualified workforce: a focus on the new roles of the support, time and recovery worker and the community development worker", The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice, Vol. 4 No. 4, pp. 12-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/17556228200900027