The HSUWA is proud to be part of the WA Health Excellence Awards and sponsor the Allied Health Team of the Year Award. These Awards are a great opportunity to recognise the outstanding work our members do delivering exceptional health services and support to the WA community. It’s also a great opportunity for the union to shine a light on the short-listed teams.
There are very few services that can claim they’ve had visitors to their websites from every country in the world. The Centre for Clinical Interventions’ site is one of them – from the NHS in the UK to prisons in the US and even countries like Iceland, visitors to the CCI site download content more than 20 million times a year. So, what are all those visitors accessing and downloading? Free online mental health resources including information sheets, treatment manuals and demonstration videos. Improving clinical psychology practice and outcomes for patients around the globe is part of why they made the short-list of this year’s Allied Health Team of the Year but it’s just a small part of what they do.
CCI’s primary focus is to deliver specialised clinical psychology treatment at no cost to the community. They work with people experiencing anxiety, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, and depression. At the core of everything they do is evidence. The CCI team challenge themselves every day and says they will work outside their ‘comfort zone’, constantly evolving and challenging themselves and each other to deliver the best in evidence-based therapies. The team provides a state-wide service that is driven by the core values of social justice and equitable access for everyone. The service is free, and the team say the values-driven nature of the service is important to them and part of why they want to keep working at CCI.
The CCI team’s commitment to excellence means they can confidently say they want their patients to not need them. The team tackle complex issues and have a time-limited service so their measure of success is clients saying they can get on with their lives without the need for ongoing therapy.
Congratulations on making the short-list CCI!
