Mental health carer workers

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	717103
Registration status:	Health, Standard 16/01/2020
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 as a mental health carer. Mental health carer workers include the job titles of, but not limited to, carer consultants, peer support workers, carer support workers, carer representatives and carer advocates. Roles that mental health carer 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 carers Mentoring duties Advocacy roles Liaison activities Carer support roles

Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Mental health carer workers ACT Health (retired), Candidate 16/08/2018 Health, Superseded 16/01/2020
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (mental health carer workers) Health, Standard 16/01/2020 Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (mental health carer workers), average NNNN.NN Health, Standard 16/01/2020 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—recurrent expenditure (salaries and wages) (mental health carer workers) (financial year), total Australian currency N[N(8)] Health, Standard 20/01/2021 Establishment—recurrent expenditure (salaries and wages) (mental health carer workers) (financial year), total Australian currency N[N(8)] Health, Superseded 20/01/2021 Mental health establishments NMDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 20/01/2021 Mental health establishments NMDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 Mental health establishments NMDS 2022–23 Health, Standard 17/12/2021