Overview

During their placement, students will demonstrate professional skills required in occupational therapy practice, develop and practice core occupational therapy skills and manage a small caseload.

Requisites

Prerequisites
OCC60020 Enabling Participation: Musculoskeletal and Neurological 1
OCC70010 Enabling Participation: Mental Health 2
OCC60015 Professional Practice 1
OCC70060 Enabling Participation: Mental Health 1

Rules

Pre-requisite
OCC60020 Enabling Participation: Musculoskeletal and Neurological 1
AND
OCC60015 Professional Practice 1

AND
OCC70010 Enabling Participation: Mental Health 2 OR OCC70060 Enabling Participation: Mental Health 1

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
HE Block 4
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
02-June-2025
27-July-2025
Last self-enrolment date
02-June-2025
Census date
13-June-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
04-July-2025
Results released date
12-August-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
  • Practise assessment/information gathering skills
  • Practise intervention/service provision methods (individual/ group), defining goals, coordination and implementation
  • Observe, describe, practise and reflect on effective evaluating skills

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Placement
Placement		40.00 8 weeks 320
TOTAL320

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Evidence of CompletionIndividual 100% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 

Content

  • Integration of theoretical and practice skills
  • Assessment of client capacities and development of goals
  • Development of professional reasoning skills
  • Experience 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.