Collaborative Alliance Activities

The Action Plan articulates the specific alliance arrangements, organisational processes and priority activities which will be undertaken and maintained to give practical effect to the Memorandum of Understanding (the Agreement) between {insert name of Health Service} and {insert names} Psychiatric Disability Rehabilitation and Support Services (PDRSS) for the development of more cohesive rehabilitation and recovery mental health service system for shared consumers with enduring mental illness and psychosocial disability.

This rolling three year Action Plan is to be reviewed annually under the direction of the Steering Committee established to oversight the implementation of the Agreement. 

The parties to the Agreement will seek to develop and maintain a robust alliance partnership based on the following principles: 

        I.      Leadership – to promote and develop a clear shared vision for service improvement at all levels of the organisation. This includes promoting a spirit of cooperation and collaboration, and respect for each other’s philosophy, priorities, knowledge, skills and experience.

     II.      Authority – to implement the required changes in order to achieve the sustained development of a cohesive recovery and rehabilitation service system.

   III.      Accountability – for quality service provision, achieving continuity of care and optimal recovery and rehabilitation outcomes for shared consumers, and for maximising the use of available resources and minimising duplication of effort.

    IV.      Ownership – of the change processes involved in developing and sustaining a cohesive recovery and rehabilitation service system.

      V.      Sustainability – by embedding change activities and processes (including coordination) within existing organisational structures and service delivery networks and models.

    VI.      Adaptability/Flexibility – to enable the integrated recovery and rehabilitation service system to respond to local needs, evolving service models, emerging evidence based practice change and changing consumer needs.

Activity Domains

The Action Plan identifies specific strategies and activities and associated time frames across the following activity domains:

1.      Identification, assessment and referral of shared consumers.

2.      Development, implementation, monitoring and review of individual consumers shared rehabilitation and recovery plans.

3.      Planned discharge of shared consumers.

4.      Active involvement of consumers and their carers in the development, implementation, monitoring and review of their treatment and rehabilitation plan.

5.      Cohesive structural alliances and service delivery arrangements.