Expected Benefits

• Compliance with WTD 2009 and New Deal in a way which is cost neutral or offers savings, and which is sustainable and acceptable to the appropriate professional and regulatory bodies.
• A demonstrable and sustainable reduction in the workload of the SHOs
• Further development of new ways of working for all professional groups in mental health
• The development of a more flexible inpatient workforce better able to meet patient needs in a timely and effective manner
• Opportunity to use the newly developed Creating Capable Teams Approach
• More satisfying jobs for SHOs and other staff
• Better integration of the SHOs into the multidisciplinary team
• Integration of the work of a clinical pharmacist into the inpatient unit to increase quality assurance in medication management, including patient safety
• Use of established networks to disseminate learning
• It is possible that the project will find that there is no need to have SHOs on call for the inpatient unit at all, freeing them up to gain their experience in better supervised ways.