Course Title: Work with people with mental health issues

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2023

Course Code: OHTH5919C

Course Title: Work with people with mental health issues

Important Information:

Please note that this course may have compulsory in-person attendance requirements for some teaching activities. 

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School: 535T Social Care and Health

Campus: City Campus

Program: C4365 - Certificate IV in Disability

Course Contact: Clare McGlone

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 7929

Course Contact Email: clare.mcglone@rmit.edu.au

Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Nominal Hours: 80

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

None

Course Description

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to establish relationships, clarify needs, and then work collaboratively with people who are living with mental health issues.

This unit applies to support workers in contexts outside the mental health sector, but who come into contact with people with mental health issues. The services and support provided are not mental health specific.

This unit is delivered and assessed in a cluster with:

CHCDIS010 Provide person-centred services to people with disability with complex needs

HLTAP001 Recognise healthy body systems

National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:	CHCMHS001 Work with people with mental health issues
Element:	1. Establish respectful relationships with people with mental health issue
Performance Criteria:	1.1 Communicate in a way that develops and maintains respect, hope, trust and self-direction 1.2 Work in a way that reflects and prioritises the person’s right to self define and direct their own recovery 1.3 Recognise and respect the person’s social, cultural and spiritual differences 1.4 Support the person to understand and exercise their rights 1.5 Maintain confidentiality and privacy of the person within organisation policy and protocols
Element:	2. Determine the needs of people with mental health issues
Performance Criteria:	2.1 Gather and interpret information about the person’s needs from the person and other agreed sources 2.2 Identify and discuss with the person services and strategies that support empowerment and recovery 2.3 Support the person to express their own identity and preferences and avoid imposing own values and attitudes 2.4 Identify duty of care and dignity of risk considerations in collaboration with the person
Element:	3. Work with people with mental health issues to meet aspirations and needs
Performance Criteria:	3.1 Provide support that facilitates progress towards the person’s goals in collaboration with the person and their care network 3.2 Work in ways that uphold the person’s rights 3.3 Adapt service delivery within organisation policies and procedures to meet the person’s specific needs and requirements 3.4 Document interactions and services according to organisation policy and procedures 3.5 Respond promptly and supportively to people experiencing distress or crisis 3.6 Work within the limits of own knowledge, abilities and work role and make referrals to other services as indicated by the person’s needs

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate competency in the above elements.

Details of Learning Activities

Classes where information is shared through talks and group discussions, and exercises are conducted to apply learning. Time in class, will also be spent working on applied assessment tasks

Teaching Schedule

Week	Topic	Assessment / Learning activities
Week 1	Complex needs Needs of people with mental health Information about the human body	Identify and prioritise the needs of participants Health terminology Body systems and structures
Week 2	Complex needs Needs of people with mental health Information about the human body	Identify and prioritise the needs of participants Health terminology Body systems and structures
Week 3	Complex needs Needs of people with mental health Information about the human body	Individualised support plans Self directed recovery Needs of people with mental health issues
Week 4	Complex needs Needs of people with mental health Information about the human body	Individualised support plans Self directed recovery Needs of people with mental health issues Services and supports AT4
Week 5	Complex needs Needs of people with mental health Information about the human body	Individualised support plans delivery and evaluation Self directed recovery Needs of people with mental health issues Services and supports AT1
Week 6	Complex needs Needs of people with mental health Information about the human body	Individualised support plans delivery and evaluation Self directed recovery Needs of people with mental health issues Services and supports
Week 7	Review Practical observations Assessment support	AT2 AT3
Week 8	Review Practical observations Assessment support

Week

Topic

Assessment / Learning activities

Week 1

Complex needs

Needs of people with mental health