Mental health consumer workers

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	450727
Registration status:	Health, Standard 07/12/2011
Definition:	Persons employed (or engaged via contract) on a part-time or full-time paid basis, where the person is specifically employed for the expertise developed from their lived experience of mental illness. Mental health consumer workers include the job titles of, but not limited to, consumer consultants, peer support workers, peer specialists, consumer companions, consumer representatives, consumer project officers and recovery support workers. Roles that mental health consumer workers may perform include, but are not limited to: Participation in mental health service planning Mental health policy development Mental health service evaluation Training and education of professionals and consumers Mentoring duties Advocacy roles Liaison activities Client support roles Peer support roles

Relational attributes
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (mental health consumer and carer workers) Health, Standard 16/01/2020 Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (mental health consumer and carer workers), average NNNN.NN Health, Standard 16/01/2020 Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (mental health consumer and carer workers), average NNNN.NN ACT Health (retired), Candidate 16/08/2018 Health, Superseded 16/01/2020 Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (mental health consumer workers) ACT Health (retired), Candidate 16/08/2018 Health, Standard 07/02/2013 Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (mental health consumer workers), average NNNN.NN ACT Health (retired), Candidate 16/08/2018 Health, Standard 07/02/2013 Establishment—recurrent expenditure (salaries and wages) (mental health consumer workers) (financial year), total Australian currency N[N(8)] Health, Standard 20/01/2021 Establishment—recurrent expenditure (salaries and wages) (mental health consumer workers) (financial year), total Australian currency N[N(8)] ACT Health (retired), Candidate 17/08/2018 Health, Superseded 20/01/2021 Mental health consumer and carer workers, 2018 Health, Recorded 09/08/2018 Mental health establishments NMDS 2014-15 Health, Superseded 13/11/2014 Mental health establishments NMDS 2015-16 Health, Superseded 04/09/2015 Mental health establishments NMDS 2016-17 Health, Superseded 17/08/2017 Mental health establishments NMDS 2017–18 Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Mental health establishments NMDS 2018–19 ACT Health (retired), Candidate 17/08/2018 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Mental health establishments NMDS 2019–20 Health, Superseded 16/01/2020 Mental health establishments NMDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 20/01/2021 Mental health establishments NMDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Mental health establishments NMDS 2022–23 Health, Standard 17/12/2021