Unit of competency details
CHCPWK001 - Apply peer work practices in the mental health sector (Release 1)
Summary
Usage recommendation:
Current
Releases:
| 1 1 (this release) |
06/Aug/2015 |
Companion volumes:
Unit of competency
Assessment requirements
Training packages that include this unit
Qualifications that include this unit
Skill sets that include this unit
Classifications
Classification history
| ASCED Module/Unit of Competency Field of Education Identifier | 120505 | Work Practices Programmes | 02/Nov/2015 | |
The content being displayed has been produced by a third party, while all attempts have been made to make this content as accessible as possible it cannot be guaranteed. If you are encountering issues following the content on this page please consider downloading the content in its original form
Unit of competency
Modification History
|
Release
|
Comments
|
|
Release 1
|
This version was released in CHC Community Services Training Package release 2.0 and meets the requirements of the 2012 Standards for Training Packages.
Minimal changes to the elements and performance criteria. New evidence requirements for assessment, including volume and frequency.
|
Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required for working with the mental health peer workforce in a range of settings where peer work occurs.
This unit applies to peer support work with individuals affected by mental illness in a range of mental health services.
The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian/New Zealand standards and industry codes of practice.
Elements and Performance Criteria
|
ELEMENT
|
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
|
|
Elements define the essential outcomes
|
Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.
|
|
1. Identify the context of mental health peer work
|
1.1 Access, review and use contemporary and emergent literature on mental health peer work and practices
1.2 Apply awareness of the historical context of peer work
1.3 Consider changing social, political, cultural and economic context in all peer work
1.4 Define peer work role and structures in a range of mental health services
1.5 Identify a range of mental health consumer and carer networks relevant to peer work
1.6 Apply knowledge of the consumer and carer movements
|
|
|
|
|
2. Apply the values and central philosophies of mental health peer work
|
2.1 Identify own values and how these may influence/impact peer work
2.2 Identify the organisation’s peer work philosophies and how this impacts on own approach to peer work
2.3 Apply access and equity principles in peer work
2.4 Communicate with consumers and others in ways that support the values and philosophies of peer work
2.5 Maintain confidentiality of information and explain limits of confidentiality to others
|
|
|
|
|
3. Identify and use mental health service options
|
3.1 Access the range of support services provided by consumer peers and carer peers
3.2 Use information about mental health systems and the range of service options available to support the recovery process
|
Foundation Skills
|
The Foundation Skills describe those required skills (language, literacy, numeracy and employment skills) that are essential to performance.
|
|
Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency
|
Unit Mapping Information
No equivalent unit.
Links
Companion Volume implementation guides are found in VETNet - https://vetnet.gov.au/Pages/TrainingDocs.aspx?q=5e0c25cc-3d9d-4b43-80d3-bd22cc4f1e53
Assessment requirements
Modification History
|
Release
|
Comments
|
|
Release 1
|
This version was released in CHC Community Services Training Package release 2.0 and meets the requirements of the 2012 Standards for Training Packages.
Minimal changes to the elements and performance criteria. New evidence requirements for assessment, including volume and frequency.
|
Performance Evidence
The candidate must show evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the job role. There must be evidence that the candidate has:
- worked according to the values, ethics and philosophies of mental health peer work using available support services in at least 3 different situations:
- communicated appropriately:
- used inclusive and person first language
- used consumer’s or carer’s preferred language and terminology and their personal meaning and interpretations
- maintained confidentiality
- clinicians
- consumers
- carers
- other service providers
Knowledge Evidence
The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively do the task outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage the task and manage contingencies in the context of the work role. This includes knowledge of:
- historical, social, political and economic contexts of mental health services and mental health consumer and carer movements, including impacts of mental health systems on consumers and carers
- philosophical, ethical and values based approaches to peer work
- international and national trends and developments in consumer and carer peer work
- history and context of self-directed recovery and recovery principles, facilitation, pathways and practices
- impacts and different types of stigma for consumers and carers including:
- self-stigma
- individual stigma
- community stigma
- prejudice and discrimination on the recovery journey
- social justice issues, principles and approaches, including working from a rights based framework and awareness of the rights and responsibilities of consumer and carers and peer workers
- different understandings of mental illness and distress/issues
- principles and practices of duty of care as these apply to peer work
- legislation, standards and policies, that relate to mental health services and peer work
- language, meaning and terminology in relation to mental health and peer work, including dignity of risk and first person language
Assessment Conditions
Skills must have been demonstrated in the workplace or in a simulated environment that reflects workplace conditions. Where simulation is used, it must reflect real working conditions by modelling industry operating conditions and contingencies, as well as, using suitable facilities, equipment and resources.
Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015/AQTF mandatory competency requirements for assessors.
In addition, assessors must be an experienced peer worker with lived experience of mental illness as a consumer or carer (assessment must also involve a qualified assessor where the peer worker is not a qualified assessor).
Links
Companion Volume implementation guides are found in VETNet - https://vetnet.gov.au/Pages/TrainingDocs.aspx?q=5e0c25cc-3d9d-4b43-80d3-bd22cc4f1e53
