Submissions

QAMH provided a submission advocating strongly for a National Mental Health Workforce Strategy that takes a broader view of the skills required to build a contemporary workforce. In particular, we called for the Strategy to include a stronger focus on the not-for-profit community mental health and wellbeing workforce, including lived experience.

The QAMH submission on the National Mental Health Workforce also addressed the following:

• Key challenges facing Australia’s mental health workforce
• Priority areas including the recruitment and retention of staff
• Improving the attractiveness of careers in mental health
• Improving integration of care and supporting multidisciplinary approaches
• Developing innovation service delivery models and workforce optimisation approaches