Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners

CHCPW601A Mapping and Delivery Guide
Establish and maintain mental health peer work

Version 1.0
Issue Date: June 2024


Qualification -
Unit of Competency CHCPW601A - Establish and maintain mental health peer work
Description This unit describes the knowledge and skills required to work collaboratively with consumer workers and carer workers to maximise their employment in mental health peer work
Employability Skills This unit contains Employability Skills
Learning Outcomes and Application The skills described in this unit apply to managers and team leaders who are responsible for the recruitment, planning, and ongoing management of consumer workers and carer workers in the mental health peer workforce
Duration and Setting X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting.
Prerequisites/co-requisites Not applicable.
Competency Field
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners Student Learning Resources Handouts
Activities 		Slides
PPT 		Assessment 1 Assessment 2 Assessment 3 Assessment 4
Elements of Competency Performance Criteria              
Element: Elements define the essential outcomes of a unit of competency.
       
Element: The Performance Criteria specify the level of performance required to demonstrate achievement of the Element. Terms in italics are elaborated in the Range Statement.
       
Element: Undertake peer worker planning and recruitment
  • Identify and assess mental health peer participation requirements in collaboration with consumer and carer leaders
  • Plan processes and recruitment strategies that align with national policy and recommendations of the consumers and carers in service delivery
  • Develop job specifications and position responsibilities in collaboration with consumer and carer leaders
  • Determine and address reasonable adjustment needs in all aspects of recruitment and employment
  • Recruit peer workers as required using timely and appropriate processes and providing all relevant documentation as required by the organisation
  • Provide relevant induction, orientation and training plans for new peer workers
  • Establish a work plan in consultation with the peer worker
  • Promote to others positive inclusion of peer workers in the organisation
       
Element: Support peer work
  • Create work practices that optimise the intended objectives, values and ethics of mental health peer work
  • Define, agree and communicate peer worker roles, responsibilities
  • Develop work practices that are equitable for peer workers, including the same access to resources and work related facilities and opportunities as other workers
  • Provide peer workers with appropriate access to supervision, mentoring and debriefing by experienced peer workers and other people best able to satisfy their agreed work and development needs
  • Provide opportunities as appropriate for peer workers to operate in leadership and management roles
  • Ensure that peer workers are supported and have access to peer mentoring and peer networking opportunities on an ongoing basis
  • Put in place mechanisms to continually evaluate support strategies and ongoing skills development available to peer worker
  • Ensure peer work plans and organisational policy are consistent with peer worker frameworks and principles
  • Identify and address risks and evidence of role strain, role conflict and role confusion in relation to peer worker role
  • Recognise performance achievement and encourage self-assessment and reflective practice
       
Element: Promote and support the inclusion of peer workers in the workplace
  • Promote the value of peer work to all staff
  • Identify and manage service culture issues and procedures that are barriers to effective peer work
  • Consult with peer leaders in the development and delivery of staff training
  • Provide support and training about peer work to staff to clarify role delineation and minimise the risk of role strain, role conflict and role confusion
  • Encourage all staff to attend consumer and carer events
  • Collaborate with peer workers to establish a self-directed workplace wellness plan to assist maintaining employment
       
Element: Promote and champion peer work
  • Develop, manage and review policies and procedures to support the delivery and promotion of peer work within the organisation
  • Advocate with peer workers within the organisation and sector
  • Ensure peer worker participation in all relevant planning, implementation, education and evaluation activities, both within the organisation and sector
  • Ensure information about peer work programs appear in organisational brochures, promotional materials and annual reports
  • Seek or allocate funding for peer worker driven resource and program development and other initiatives
  • Maintain current knowledge of peer work developments and innovations
       


Evidence Required

List the assessment methods to be used and the context and resources required for assessment. Copy and paste the relevant sections from the evidence guide below and then re-write these in plain English.

The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the Performance Criteria, Required Skills and Knowledge, the Range Statement and the Assessment Guidelines for this Training Package.

Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate this unit of competency:

The individual being assessed must provide evidence of specified essential knowledge as well as skills

This unit is most appropriately assessed in the workplace or in a simulated workplace and under the normal range of workplace conditions
This may include the use of languages other than English and alternative communication systems

Assessment may be conducted over more than one occasion or use material drawn from the workplace for a period of time

The candidate must show evidence of planning, promoting and supporting peer work within their management area of responsibility

Access and equity considerations:

All workers in community and health services should be aware of access, equity and human rights issues in relation to their own area of work, in particular people with mental health problems or psychosocial dysfunction

All workers in community services should be aware of access, equity and human rights issues in relation to their own area of work

All workers should develop their ability to work in a culturally diverse environment

In recognition of particular issues facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, workers should be aware of cultural, historical and current issues impacting on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Assessors and trainers must take into account relevant access and equity issues, in particular relating to factors impacting on Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients and communities

Context of and specific resources for assessment:

This unit can be assessed independently, however holistic assessment practice with other community services units of competency is encouraged

Resource requirements for assessment of this unit include access to an appropriate workplace where assessment can be conducted

Method of assessment:

Assessment may include observations, questioning and evidence gathered from the workplace

Submission Requirements

List each assessment task's title, type (eg project, observation/demonstration, essay, assignment, checklist) and due date here

Assessment task 1: [title]      Due date:

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Assessment Tasks

Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.

Essential knowledge:

The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively perform task skills; task management skills; contingency management skills and job/role environment skills as outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit.

These include knowledge of:

History of emergent mental health consumer and carer movements

Philosophical, ethical and values based approaches to mental health peer work

The mental health peer workforce, and consumer and carer participation

Theoretical perspectives on approaches to mental health peer work

Innovative approaches to mental health peer work

Working from a rights based framework

Impacts of stigma, prejudice and discrimination on recovery journey

Social justice issues and approaches

Organisation objectives, policies and procedures required to support a mental health peer workforce

Ethics and practice differences between mental health peer work, and mental health work

Human resource management theory, principles and practices as they relate to mental health peer work

Duty of care for the supervision of others in the workplace

Rights and responsibilities of mental health peer workers, and employers

Research on the value and challenges of peer work in mental health settings

Strategies for ongoing development, support and promotion of mental health peer workers in the organisation

Current knowledge of consumer and carer developed literature, research and resources

Development of peer delivered mentoring and supervision

Barriers experienced by mental health peer workers, and strategies to address these barriers

Relevant legislation, policies and guidelines that impact on the mental health peer workforce and the organisation

Essential skills:

It is critical that the candidate demonstrate the ability to:

Plan, recruit, support and retain mental health peer workers in a manner consistent with the ethics, duty of care, job readiness, principles and practices of mental health peer work

Allocate work within the agreed guidelines, work plans, job descriptions and principles of mental health peer work

Negotiate reasonable adjustment to work plans including modifying continuous periods of work, workplace, assess and modify workloads, arrange mentoring or buddying where necessary

Manage and facilitate team work and a service culture that supports and acknowledges the importance and role of mental health peer workers in the organisation

Supporting mental health peer worker integration in the workplace including awareness of different levels of support needs and application of differences

Provide a safe and healthy workplace that meets mental health peer worker needs, and collaboratively review on a regular basis

Manage reasonable adjustments in the workplace, as required and in consultation with the individual peer worker

Effectively develop and maintain the relevant infrastructure and systems supports required to sustain a mental health peer workforce

Identify and minimise role strain, role conflict and role confusion in mental health peer work

Conduct a structured debriefing process

Demonstrate application of skills in:

Risk management

Contingency management

managing people

effective interpersonal and communication skills

team management

working effectively with mental health peer workers, consumers and carers including structured debriefing

Use and coordinate the use of relevant information technology effectively in line with work health and safety (WHS) guidelines

The Range Statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Add any essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts.

Job specifications and position responsibilities include:

Job functions reflective of the intentions of employing the knowledge and skills of an individual based on their lived experience

Clear and intentional descriptions of the duties/work to be undertaken and how this role fits within the broader scope of service delivery

Accountability processes and decision making

Specifications are to clearly identify "lived experience" as employment criteria

Induction, orientation and training plans may include:

WHS systems and equipment orientation

Access to policies and procedures, ethics and codes of conduct including confidentiality, record keeping

Establishing a training plan in collaboration with the individual and relative to the work role expectations and outcomes

Work plan is defined in this context as:

A work plan is an outline of all tasks that need to be completed over a specified period of time and/or project negotiated between employee and employer and accommodates reasonable adjustment where this is preferred by the consumer or carer peer worker

Promote to others positive inclusion may include:

Developing policies on consumer/carer participation

Modelling inclusive practices

Demonstrating and leading by example to others in the team the importance and value of consumer/carer participation in the work environment

Planning for consumer worker/carer workers to provide education and information to other workers and services based on their lived experience

Appropriate access to supervision ,mentoring and debriefing may include:

Peer supervision

Group supervision

Team leader supervision

Peer coordinator supervision

Determined as appropriate by the individual

Reflective practice opportunities

Counselling

Peer mentoring/ co-worker debriefing

Peer worker networks and forums

Mechanisms to continually evaluate support strategies may include:

Review of management systems

Worker feedback processes

Intentional inclusion of seeking effectiveness of support provided to consumer/carer workforce

Ongoing skills development may include:

Work place training opportunities

Mentoring

Coaching

External training opportunities

Research

Conference attendance

Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.

Observation Checklist

Tasks to be observed according to workplace/college/TAFE policy and procedures, relevant legislation and Codes of Practice Yes No Comments/feedback
 
 
Identify and assess mental health peer participation requirements in collaboration with consumer and carer leaders 
Plan processes and recruitment strategies that align with national policy and recommendations of the consumers and carers in service delivery 
Develop job specifications and position responsibilities in collaboration with consumer and carer leaders 
Determine and address reasonable adjustment needs in all aspects of recruitment and employment 
Recruit peer workers as required using timely and appropriate processes and providing all relevant documentation as required by the organisation 
Provide relevant induction, orientation and training plans for new peer workers 
Establish a work plan in consultation with the peer worker 
Promote to others positive inclusion of peer workers in the organisation 
Create work practices that optimise the intended objectives, values and ethics of mental health peer work 
Define, agree and communicate peer worker roles, responsibilities 
Develop work practices that are equitable for peer workers, including the same access to resources and work related facilities and opportunities as other workers 
Provide peer workers with appropriate access to supervision, mentoring and debriefing by experienced peer workers and other people best able to satisfy their agreed work and development needs 
Provide opportunities as appropriate for peer workers to operate in leadership and management roles 
Ensure that peer workers are supported and have access to peer mentoring and peer networking opportunities on an ongoing basis 
Put in place mechanisms to continually evaluate support strategies and ongoing skills development available to peer worker 
Ensure peer work plans and organisational policy are consistent with peer worker frameworks and principles 
Identify and address risks and evidence of role strain, role conflict and role confusion in relation to peer worker role 
Recognise performance achievement and encourage self-assessment and reflective practice 
Promote the value of peer work to all staff 
Identify and manage service culture issues and procedures that are barriers to effective peer work 
Consult with peer leaders in the development and delivery of staff training 
Provide support and training about peer work to staff to clarify role delineation and minimise the risk of role strain, role conflict and role confusion 
Encourage all staff to attend consumer and carer events 
Collaborate with peer workers to establish a self-directed workplace wellness plan to assist maintaining employment 
Develop, manage and review policies and procedures to support the delivery and promotion of peer work within the organisation 
Advocate with peer workers within the organisation and sector 
Ensure peer worker participation in all relevant planning, implementation, education and evaluation activities, both within the organisation and sector 
Ensure information about peer work programs appear in organisational brochures, promotional materials and annual reports 
Seek or allocate funding for peer worker driven resource and program development and other initiatives 
Maintain current knowledge of peer work developments and innovations 

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