Role Title: Systemwide Mental Health Mapping
Organisation: Department of Health
Internship Period: Summer (November - December)
Location: East Perth - Royal Street
The Statewide Clinical Director Mental Health is responsible for leading the Statewide Mental Health Team (SMHT) and plays a significant role in supporting and driving mental health reform across the WA Health System. They also sit on 20+ committees and governance groups, generating a substantial volume of actions and workstreams that require coordination and oversight.
The SMHT is seeking support to better understand, visualise and manage the complex relationships between the numerous projects, initiatives, committees, strategies and frameworks operating across the WA Mental Health system.
We are looking for an intern who can develop an innovative and practical approach to mapping the various pieces of work occurring within the SMHT and across the broader mental health sector, and demonstrate how they align with relevant state and national strategies, frameworks and policies.
Desired outputs:
1) A visual representation of the relationships between committees, projects, strategies, frameworks and key workstreams.
2) A mechanism for capturing and categorising actions arising from committees, governance groups and projects that are allocated to the SMHT and/or Department of Health.
3) A sustainable process for monitoring, reporting and tracking actions over time.
WA Health is now governed by the Health Services Act 2016.
The new legislation represents a significant reform in health, and is designed to modernise the way our health services are structured, governed and delivered; to promote better health, better care and better value to all Western Australians.
The legislation established the Department of Health as ‘System Manager’ for WA Health, providing stewardship, guidance and support to our health services using a collection of binding Policy Frameworks in 18 key areas of health service delivery, to ensure they provide consistent, efficient and effective services into the future.