Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO6018

The purpose of this grant opportunity is to attract and retain nursing and allied health students and graduates, including psychologists, to the mental health sector by providing supervised placement opportunities across primary and private settings in a range of locations, including non-metropolitan regions. It aims to improve the experience of students and graduates in the mental health sector by exposing them to less intensive service settings, with the aim to retain them in the mental health sector. It also aims to boost the training pipeline by training more students that can go on to work in the mental health sector upon graduation.

This grant opportunity takes immediate action to alleviate workforce shortages and reduce wait times for services. 

The grant will provide funding of $17.094 million over three years (from 2022-23 to 2024-25). 

The objectives of the grant opportunity are to:

• Attract and retain nursing and allied health students and graduates, including psychologists, to the mental health sector by providing supervised placement opportunities in primary and private settings;
• Boost the training pipeline by training more students that can go on to work in the mental health sector upon graduation; and
• Upskill the current psychology workforce by increasing the number of Psychology Board of Australia (Board) endorsed supervisors to increase access to supervision. 

The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are:

• Address critical shortages in the mental health workforce;
• Provide supervised placements for nursing and allied health students and graduates and supervised internships for provisional psychologists in a range of locations;
• Increase retention of students and graduates in the mental health sector; and
• Increase the number of Psychology Board of Australia endorsed supervisors.

To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left hand side.

To be eligible you must be registered training organisation or Australian University Higher Education Provider (as listed on the Study Australia Website) able to deliver accredited:

• Nursing and/or Occupational Therapy and/or Social Work degrees; and/or
• Postgraduate Psychology degrees (either Clinical or Professional); and/or
• Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) board-approved Psychology Supervisor Training online.

For all eligibility requirements please refer to the Grant Opportunity Guidelines, as listed on GrantConnect, specifically Section 4.1.

Applications from consortia are acceptable and encouraged, as long as you have a lead applicant for each grant who is solely accountable to the Commonwealth for the delivery of grant activities and is eligible as per Section 4.1. All organisations with the consortia must meet all eligibility criteria, with exception to being a registered training organisation or Australian University Higher Education Provider. 

$17,094,000.00

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