What's new at the Learning Centre?
Our Team continue to make remarkable progress. As we approach the mid-point of this dynamic year, we have so much to celebrate and be proud of.

Below, we share fascinating statistics from our QC18 Suicide Prevention Skills: Core workshop, released in August last year. With over 50 sessions already delivered, it is incredibly rewarding to see such outstanding satisfaction rates reported by participants. We're also eagerly anticipating the official launch of this training package on 16 June, which will shine an even brighter spotlight on this important course.

The Semester 2 calendar has been released, including increased scheduling for some of our high-demand workshops. Given the fast-paced nature of this year, we highly recommend securing your place early as events are filling up quickly! Self-enrol for all courses via www.qcmhl.qld.edu.au and click on Start Learning.

It is inspiring to witness our team's unwavering commitment, maintaining strong momentum as we move through the year. We've got so much more to share but we'll keep some of those goodies for our next edition.
New Group Facilitation workshop

In our previous edition, we shared the imminent launch of our revamped QC27 Group Facilitation in Therapeutic Contexts workshop. We have now had the pleasure of hosting four events, and here’s what people have been saying about the new course:

“It was an excellent workshop. I learned a lot about how to plan and facilitate groups from the material and skills taught. The day was split up well into different modalities, and the facilitators practice what they preach - it was a good demonstration of how to run a group from the consumer perspective.”

"The workshop was very valuable, especially in providing practical techniques and real-life scenarios."

This is experiential learning at its best, and with many more workshop events scheduled to the end of the year, we recommend you do yourself a favour and secure your place now!

But wait, there’s still more to come! The next exciting chapter in this story will see the launch of a brand new complementary eLearning currently being developed to further support learning on the subject. We’ll share more on this in future edition of this eNewsletter.
supervision in action
Better Care Together and Supervision training

One of the ways Better Care Together is supporting the personal and professional development and wellbeing of the statewide mental health, alcohol and other drugs (MHAOD) workforce is through the development and delivery of an updated supervision training curriculum that supports the implementation of effective supervision.

The Learning Centre’s supervision training suite has been developed using a universal and inter-disciplinary approach and has courses relevant for new and experienced supervisees, those transitioning into a supervisor role and those who want to update to contemporary practice. The supervision course relationship diagram demonstrates the courses and learning pathway. Importantly, it has been redesigned to be inclusive of all front-line and support roles, including persons from diverse professions and cultures, MHAOD First Nations workers, administrative staff and Lived Experience (peer) workers. The Learning Centre supervision suite does not replace profession-specific supervision frameworks, though complements and deepens supervision practice with a diversity and inclusion focus and whole-of-workforce perspective. Moreover, introductory supervision training is now more accessible to rural, remote and regional areas of the State with eLearning and online classroom options for attendance.

To date the Learning Centre has used Better Care Together funding to:
  • deliver an eLearning module QC60 Introduction to Supervision that has seen over 600 annual staff enrolments since it launched in April 2023
  • commence delivery of QC8 Supervisee via online classroom in May 2023
  • upskill ten educators to deliver QC4 Supervisor though a dedicated train-the-trainer event, including Hospital and Health Service educators through formal Training Partner Arrangements
  • increase scheduling of face-to-face training workshops resulting in an additional 35 QC4 Supervisor training deliveries completed between 2022 and 2024
  • provide representation on the MHAODB Supervision Implementation Reference Group to ensure alignment with the Supervision Guidelines for Mental Health Alcohol and Other Drugs Services 2023
  • develop additional resources to support cultural safety and peer practice supervision perspectives. Supervision resources and further information can be found at our publicly accessible supervision resource centre.
The Learning Centre supervision suite provides a support framework for supervisors and supervisees from all workforce disciplines that encourages review and reflection on practice to maintain professional and ethical standards, deliver person-centred outcomes, and support practitioner wellbeing. The following de-identified comments have been provided by workshop participants:

“...it was the best supervision training I have ever been to... Honestly, I have done so much training since joining Health/gov and this has by far been the most beneficial to my work.”

“I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was the rare combination of good content and process, excellent facilitators, and all participants fully engaged.”

“This workshop exceeded my expectations and prior experiences in attending workshops.”

“Excellent, engaging and transformative workshop - I will use all of the skills practiced.”
Suicide Prevention Skills training outcomes

The Learning Centre routinely evaluates our ongoing work within the Suicide Prevention Skills training program. A key deliverable under the Suicide Prevention in Health Services Program, was the commencement of the new suicide prevention skills course, QC18 Suicide Prevention Skills: Core (SPS:C). This course aims to provide/enhance core suicide prevention skills and knowledge.

Six monthly reports are prepared by our team to analyse the key deliverables of the program. For the new QC18 SPS:C course, the report showed that:
  • The staged release from August to December 2024 had 223 learners attend the training, across 22 workshop deliveries.
  • The new assessment used in evaluation of this course measures self-reported suicide prevention competencies (SCAF-R scale) and demonstrated nearly 90% of learners reported that they had achieved competency post-training in the assessment and management of people experiencing suicidal crisis (from composite rating scores across 10 core competencies) which is a statistically significant outcome of training completion (*p<.001). 98% of learners reported overall competency post-training, with significant differences from pre-training (*p<.001).
  • After training, more than 87% of these learners were highly confident in applying skills learnt in risk assessment, risk formulation and safety planning back on the job, and 98% were highly committed in applying skills learnt and using compassion when working with people experiencing suicidality.
The above graph demonstrates the gains in knowledge and competency, and the high confidence and commitment ratings. This data suggest that the new QC18 SPS:C course may be effective in improving core knowledge and skills for competency in engaging with and assessing persons experiencing suicidality.

Note: The bars indicate the proportion of learners with high ratings (%) for each outcome. The asterisks indicate significant differences in knowledge and achieved competencies from pre-training to post-training. Confidence in skills and commitment to apply skills were evaluated post-training.

Cramer, R. J. et al. (2020). Initial validation of the Suicide Competency Assessment Form among behaviour health staff in the National Health Services Trust. Archives of Suicide Research, 24(sup 2), S136-S149. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2019.
Learner profile reminder

We are noticing increasing numbers of individuals creating a second profile in our online training system, which is creating many complications.

Before creating a learner profile, it is important to consider if you already have an existing training record - if you've completed Learning Centre training previously, you will have a profile.

For any change in your employment circumstances, relocations, a change of contact details, or even name change it is important that you update your existing learner profile in our system.

Your learner profile and training records are important and stay connected to you throughout your career regardless of where you may move. You may update your personal profile details at any time in the MY PROFILE tab, or you can contact us for support if more technical changes are required (for example a change of email address requires assistance).

Keeping your profile up to date also ensures that you receive any important notifications regarding upcoming events or steps required for your training attendance. It also ensures you are aligned appropriately for HHS and workplace reporting purposes.
What's coming next?

In our next edition we look forward to sharing:
  • An update on our new Group Facilitation eLearning
  • The release of Stigma Reduction eLearning
  • New Mental State Examination workshop launch
  • QC12 Supervising Supervisor redevelopment updates.
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