Overview

In this unit students will demonstrate advanced level professional skills including professional behaviour, high level communication, and self-management skills. In addition they will actively engage in reflection-on-practice including; evaluation of one’s own practice, identify and critique relevant resources for learning; and prepare for, and contribute to feedback sessions. Students will use a learning contract and journal to facilitate reflection activities. Students will apply client-centred reasoning processes, including relevant conceptual and professional practice theories and frameworks and apply best practice by searching, selecting and critiquing evidence. Finally, students will demonstrate beginning practitioner skills, in a sensitive, ethical and professional manner. Students will manage a case load of 4-6 clients.

Requisites

Prerequisites
OCC80030 Enabling Participation: Children
OCC80055 Evidence Review
OCC70015 Professional Practice 2
OCC80040 Enabling Participation: Youth

Rules

Pre-requisite
OCC80030 Enabling Participation: Children
AND
OCC80055 Evidence Review
AND
OCC70015 Professional Practice 2
AND
OCC80040 Enabling Participation: Youth

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
10-March-2025
25-May-2025
Last self-enrolment date
23-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
02-May-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Behave professionally and ethically
  • Consolidate and enhance self-management skills
  • Communicate effectively and professionally within the workplace, and with service users and significant others
  • Develops and maintains appropriate documentation at beginner practitioner level
  • Actively engage in assessment/information gathering skills at beginner practitioner level
  • Critique and apply intervention/services (individual/ group), define goals, coordinate and implement at beginner practitioner level
  • Demonstrate skills in evaluation, self-evaluation and evaluation of intervention strategies

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

  • Eight week professional practice placement in a variety of clinical and non-clinical settings

Study resources

Reading materials

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