Professional development for Victoria's mental health workforce

Statewide education and training providers

There are a number of providers that deliver a range of education and training opportunities to the specialist mental health workforce and others who have a role in responding to mental health issues.

These include:

• The Bouverie Centre
• The Centre for Psychiatric
• Forensicare
• Mindful
• Orygen Youth Health
• Spectrum
• Victorian Centre of Excellence in Eating Disorders
• Victorian Dual Disability Service
• Victorian Transcultural Mental Health
• Vicserv

Mental Health Professional Online Development

The Mental Health Professional Online Development (MHPOD) Learning Portal is a free, online professional development resource for Australia’s health workforce.

The platform caters to different learning styles, including self-directed learning, micro-learning, pathways and self-assessment tools to help people learn on the go. Topics are delivered in digestible sections, with each one taking approximately one hour.

Strategic Goal

Funded by all Australian jurisdictions and managed on their behalf by the Victorian Department of Health, MHPOD provides access to various learning and development resources through the MHPOD Website and the MHPOD Learning Portal.

Its goal is to build on the capacity of Australia’s health and interrelating workforce to continue delivering high-quality, evidence-based care to Australians and improve their health and wellbeing in a supportive, safe and collaborative environment.

All the content is evidence-based and developed by frontline subject matter experts working in acute and community-based mental health settings.

Target audience

MHPOD’s target audience is diverse with content developed to address clinical knowledge and skills relevant staff working across Australia’s health system with a focus on improving mental health literacy and skills.

In addition, content is also applicable to other workers whose role includes addressing the mental health needs of individuals such as community-based mental health workers, lived experience workforce, other allied health workers and Aboriginal Health Workers.

Accessing MHPOD

Access to the MHPOD Learning Portal is free through a self-registration process via the MHPOD Learning Portal login page.

Access the MHPOD Website for further information including about the MHPOD Learning Portal.