Overview

During this placement, students will demonstrate professional skills required in occupational therapy practice, develop emerging core occupational therapy skills and be actively involved in all stages of the occupational therapy process within a particular setting.

Requisites

Prerequisites
OCC60015 Professional Practice 1

Rules

Pre-requisite
Admission into MA-OCC - Master of Occupational Therapy

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
HE Block 8
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-November-2025
30-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
03-November-2025
Census date
14-November-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
21-November-2025
Results released date
23-December-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Conduct themselves in a professional manner
  • Demonstrate effective self-management skills
  • Communicate effectively within the workplace, and with service users and significant others
  • Develop and maintain appropriate documentation
  • Observe, describe, practice and reflect on assessment/information gathering skills
  • Observe, describe, practice and reflect on intervention/service provision methods (individual/group), defining goals, coordination and implementation

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Placement
Placement		40.00 4 weeks 160
TOTAL160

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Evidence of CompletionIndividual 100% 1,2,3,4,5,6 

Content

  • Integration of theoretical and practice skills
  • Assessment of client capacities and development of goals
  • Development of professional reasoning skills
  • Experience any or all of the different stages of the occupational process
  • Engage in the process of reflective practice and self-evaluation

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.