Digital skills in mental health guide: an interactive tool for teams to make progress together

This is a practical guide for people working in mental health to help you build your digital confidence and skills. You can use the guide to consider where you are now, where you want to be and how to get there. The guide will help you understand your current confidence and skills and identify things you can do to improve. Leaders and managers can use the guide to support an open, supportive discussion with individuals and teams as a whole. 

The guide provides a simple, interactive way of having a conversation with colleagues and identifying manageable steps forward that will make a difference to you, your team and service users. The guide looks at generic digital skills across the mental health workforce and signposts you to specific and in-depth resources and tools.

The first step is to carry out the team baseline that covers organisational tools, supporting others, security and safety and being digitally enabled. Get started by exploring which of these statements best describes you:

• Curious but not sure how to get started
• Having a go but nervous about getting it right
• Confident that I'm doing this well
• The person that others come to for help