Presentations from the Substance Misuse Skills Consortium's first national conference, Monday 6 June 2011
On Monday 6 June 2011, the Substance Misuse Skills Consortium held its first national conference. The conference was an opportunity for those who work in the substance misuse field to share good and innovative practice and demonstrate how the sector is making concerted steps towards delivering a recovery orientated workforce. A series of 10 minute presentations from providers, clinicians and recovery specialists showed what they are doing to achieve this. Film of these initial presentations can be viewed below, together with the PowerPoint presentations.
Skills Consortium work group coordinators later presented their work plans. The day ended with an open meeting on the future of the Consortium, addressed by William Butler (Chair) and Ian Wardle (executive member). Presentations from all these sessions are also below.
For a more detailed account of the day, please see the conference briefing.
Filmed presentations
Anthony Heaven, Westminster Drug Project
Anthony Heaven presents on WDP’s workforce initiative in relation to recovery, including an audit of their staff’s experience of recovery, and gives practical examples of what the organisation is doing around recovery.
Antony Heaven’s PowerPoint presentation:
Peter Sheath, CRI
Peter Sheath presents on how CRI are developing their service culture, managers and front line staff to create a recovery inspired workforce. He also looks at assets based recovery planning and stimulating the development of recovery communities.
Peter Sheath’s PowerPoint presentation:
Gemma Fairburn, Turning Point
Gemma Fairburn presents on Wakefield’s engagement and recovery team and how they are engaging and retaining service users in recovery journeys.
Gemma Fairburn’s PowerPoint presentation:
Haydn Cavanagh, Calderdale Substance Misuse Service
Haydn Cavanagh presents on his trust’s approach to segmenting their service users into groups, as a basis for targeting different groups with different interventions, to create a dynamic pathway and recovery as a visible and integrated goal of treatment.
Haydn Cavanagh’s PowerPoint presentation:
Michelle Foster, The Basement Project
Michelle Foster presents on choosing abstinence as a basis for recovery, developing a recovery community in Calderdale, and why the recovery approach is different. She also looks at the service's pathway, and Recovery Orientated Integrated Systems (ROIS).
Michelle Foster’s PowerPoint presentation:
Patrick Gormley, StreetScene
Patrick Gormley presents, on StreetScene’s model of training service users to become peer mentors, volunteers and employees, from a residential provider perspective. He goes on to tell the stories of former service users who have been through a structured programme of training and work experience, and who are now key members of the staff team.
Patrick Gormley’s PowerPoint presentation:
Vicki Beere, Clair Burkitt and Charlie Plucker, Project 6
Vicki Beere, Clair Burkitt and Charlie Plucker present on their organisation’s structured recovery programme and the organisational culture that engenders the recovery ethos of their service. They stress the importance of underpinning professional competencies with characteristics and an ethos that support recovery.
Vicki Beere, Clair Burkitt and Charlie Plucker’s PowerPoint presentation:
Alistair Sinclair, UK Recovery Federation
Alistair Sinclair presents on recovery communities and recovery orientated quality standards, looking at asset based community development (ABCD), developing a recovery orientated dynamic assurance (RODA) framework, and what a recovery orientated system incorporates.
Alistair Sinclair’s PowerPoint presentation:
Ian Dickinson, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Ian Dickinson presents the care packages developed by his service, drawing on mental health care clusters. He talks about how these clusters focus on recovery and workforce competencies.
Ian Dickinson’s PowerPoint presentation:
Dr Emily Finch, Royal College of Psychiatrists Addictions Executive
Dr Emily Finch presents on the competencies of addictions psychiatrists, how they adapt to change and the ethos, training and experience psychiatry brings to the field. She also presents the project on the roles and competencies of doctors being delivered by the Royal Colleges, defining a tiered model of the roles of doctors and the resultant required competencies.
Dr Emily Finch’s PowerPoint presentation:
Dr Linda Harris, Royal College of General Practitioners Substance Misuse and Associated Health Unit
Dr Linda Harris presents on the role of the GP in effective care and recovery, addressing the challenges, training, and the future. She highlights the centrality and importance of GPs in the agenda and the challenge of balancing risk management with ambition and opportunity.
Dr Linda Harris' PowerPoint presentation:
Dr Christopher Whiteley, The British Psychological Society
Dr Christopher Whiteley presents on the contribution of clinical psychologists to recovery focused drug and alcohol treatment systems. He explores which psychological therapies develop which components of recovery capital, as well as what else could be done by psychologists in relation to families and peers, organisations, and the community.
Dr Christopher Whiteley’s PowerPoint presentation:
Work group co-ordinators' presentations
Ian Wardle, Substance Misuse Skills Consortium (research and evidence work group co-ordinator)
Ian Wardle presented on the research and evidence work group’s work plan, outlining the group’s members, its brief, and a template for considering available evidence and the gaps. Once completed it should provide a breakdown of the key evidence relevant to practitioners, managers, organisations and commissioners.
Ian Wardle’s PowerPoint presentation:
Carole Sharma, Substance Misuse Skills Consortium (education and development work group co-ordinator)
Carol Sharma presented on the education and development work group’s work plan. The group will define the workforce, map qualifications and identify gaps, and propose a qualification and competency framework, drawing on the Consortium’s Skills Framework and previous initiatives where appropriate.
Carole Sharma’s PowerPoint presentation:
Pete Burkinshaw, Substance Misuse Skills Consortium (Skills Hub work group co-ordinator)
Pete Burkinshaw presented on the work group that is developing the Skills Consortium’s web-based Skills Hub. He explains the foundations and development of the Skills Framework, on which the Skills Hub is based and the work of the group in ensuring that more relevant resources are available to members to support their workforce development.
Pete Burkinshaw’s Prezi presentation:
(This presentation will open a new window at www.prezi.com, from where you can click the ‘play’ button to run the presentation)
Open meeting presentation
William Butler (Chair) and Ian Wardle (exec member), Substance Misuse Skills Consortium
William Butler presented on the history of the Skills Consortium, as well as its membership, its ambitions, working together as a sector, and future of the Skills Consortium as an independent entity. This is followed by Ian Wardle, who presented on the feedback received at the stakeholder’s event, the feasibility of a Skills Consortium, issues around sharing in a competitive environment, and the impact of a shrinking field.
William Butler and Ian Wardle’s PowerPoint presentation: