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Let’s get real: Real Skills for people working in mental health and addiction brings together work undertaken by people in the sector over the past decade on competency and capability frameworks specific to mental health or addictions.

Let’s get real is a framework that describes the essential knowledge, skills and attitudes required to deliver effective mental health and addiction treatment services. It is explicit in stating the
expectations for people who work in mental health and addiction treatment services irrespective of their role, discipline or position in the organisational structure.

Values and attitudes underpin all the work of mental health and addiction treatment services. They are expressed in action through each of the seven skill sets. Each skill set has a broad definition and three levels (essential, practitioner and leader) of performance indicators.

Let’s get real will be phased in over time, starting from late 2008. By the end of transitional phase in 2011, the Let’s get real framework will become part of the nationwide service framework.

The Let’s get real project is a key action of Tauawhitia te Wero – Embracing the Challenge: National Mental Health and Addiction Workforce Development Plan 2006–2009 (Ministry of Health 2005).

Page last updated: 28 August 2008