Our strategic mental health workforce plan for health and social care

The strategic mental health workforce plan for health and social care is a joint plan between us and Health Education and Improvement Wales. Its purpose is to put the workforce strategy for health and social care’s aims for mental health services into action.

The plan has 33 actions. The actions support the development of a motivated, engaged and valued mental health workforce across health and social care, which can meet the needs of the people of Wales.

To create the plan, we talked to people in the sector, including:

• people who have lived experience of mental health
• employers
• trade unions
• professional bodies
• royal colleges
• government.

We listened to the people who provide our mental health services, to help us understand what’s important to them. We also looked at research, workforce data and forecasts for the future.

This plan is our way of bringing about change and improvements in how we develop, value and support our specialist mental health workforce, and recognise the important role they play.

Follow the links below to read the plan on the Health Education and Improvement Wales website.

• The strategic mental health workforce plan for health and social care
• Easy Read version of the strategic mental health workforce plan for health and social care

If you would like more information about the strategic mental health workforce plan, contact jim.widdett@socialcare.wales