Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use service paid full-time equivalent positions cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Indigenous, Superseded 07/12/2017

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use service paid full-time equivalent positions cluster describes the number and type of full-time equivalent positions for which the standalone substance use service provider organisation paid wages and salaries as at the end of the reporting period.

The full-time equivalent positions are further broken down by Indigenous status, and the sex of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use full-time equivalent positions

Collection and usage attributes

If 'full-time equivalent' positions are difficult to work out, show details of how often each person works (e.g. a psychologist visits the service one morning session per month).

Inclusions:

• health and related administrative positions where the service pays the wages/salary/fees through all sources of funding (e.g. Medicare, OATSIH, State/Territory government health departments
• short term and recurrent funded positions
• contract workers paid by the service (e.g. cleaners, accountants)

Exclusions:

• Community development employment projects (CDEP) staff as they are counted as workers not paid by the service
• visiting health professionals where payments are not made by the service as they are counted as workers not paid by the service
• staff in other programs such as housing, employment, health and community care (HACC) and childcare.

Source and reference attributes

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes