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The role of the Regional Trainer (1). Regional Trainer external person ‘on hand’ to support the planning and preparation for fidelity reviews, conduct them and assist with Action Plan.
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The role of the Regional Trainer (1) • Regional Trainer • external person ‘on hand’ to support the planning and preparation for fidelity reviews, conduct them and assist with Action Plan. • demonstrates a learning culture. Talks with the clinical team and Employment Specialist (ES) about why fidelity is important and trains vocational champions. • reports to CEO who introduced Board level reporting on employment outcomes and has introduced employment targets for clinical teams See: http://www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/pdfs/briefing_44.pdf
The role of theRegional Trainer (2) • Regional Trainer • demonstrates ‘field-mentoring’ in practice and supports supervisors to adopt this approach with Employment Specialists. • provides more than just dissemination of information or training eg. modelling approaches to employers and job development • becomes the culture carrier, i.e. an individual representing evidence-based practice, who actively works to implement that practice with fidelity.
Paid work outcomes against targetApr 2010-Oct 2011 Introduction of the Regional Trainer in November 2010 Reproduced with permission of Southdown Supported Employment
Learning from year 1 • Fidelity reviews very helpful as a starting point to sort out important issues • Services that are set up on the wrong basis are harder to turn round. Outcomes for the first team in Sussex took a while to catch up with those set up subsequently • Fidelity a better predictor of employment outcomes than disability scores
Learning from year 1continued • Regional trainer’s (RT’s) status is important to acceptance by management and practitioners. Links to Centre for Mental Health and Dartmouth helped. • RT must speak the language of all levels or find allies who do eg. Seminars for psychiatrists by a psychiatrist • Training is not enough for ESs – fieldwork mentoring, modelling etc. is needed, especially for employer engagement