Leadership and Management For Health Professionals
Overview
This unit will enable students to develop an appreciation of the heath professionals’ role beyond clinical practice with an emphasis on skills in leadership, management and teamwork in the broader healthcare space. Students will learn about the fundamentals of health businesses including legal and professional standards, strategic business planning, and financial management. Students will also explore advocacy for diverse clients and their rights to equitable health care outcomes, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities. Students will be supported to develop translatable professional skills that incorporate the creativity, innovation, cultural responsiveness, collaboration and reflexivity required in rapidly transforming contexts.
Requisites
Rules
Pre-requisite
175 CPS in MA-PHYS - Master of Physiotherapy
OR
150 CPS in MA-PHYS1 - Master of Physiotherapy
OR
GC-BUSHC Graduate Certificate in Business Healthcare
13-April-2025
01-June-2025
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Examine the concepts of leadership, management, teamwork and advocacy to enhance the delivery of health services and address health inequalities, including services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and populations.
- Apply knowledge of legal and professional requirements to create a business case and marketing plan relevant to the delivery of health services
- Critically reflect on one’s progress towards the professional standards required for autonomous entry-level healthcare practice in Australia
- Evaluate the management and leadership expectations of health professionals, including workload management, workplace cultures, risk management and quality improvement
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
| Activity Type | Activity | Total Hours | Number of Weeks | Hours Per Week | Venue Type and Activity Detail |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Online | Lecture | 15 | 5 weeks | 3 | 3 x 1hr for timetabling |
| On-campus | Class | 20 | 5 weeks | 4 | Tutorial 2 x 2hr (ideally timetable as a block if possible) |
| Specified Activities | Various | 45 | 5 weeks | 9 | Group work, Readings, Online modules |
| Unspecified Activities | Independent Learning | 70 | 5 weeks | 14 | Independent study, assignment preparation |
| Total Hours: | 150 | Total Hours (per week): | 30 | ||
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Written Assignment | Group | 25% | 1,3,4 |
| Presentation | Individual /Group | 25% | 2,4 |
| e-Portfolio | Individual | 50% | 1,3,4 |
Content
- Scope of health professional careers that includes clinical, business, leadership, administration, education, research, advisory, regulatory or policy development roles.
- Advocacy for diverse clients and their rights to equitable health care outcomes, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities.
- Inclusive, client centred, collaborative, consultative, culturally appropriate and responsive models and frameworks for leadership, management and teamwork.
- Legal, professional, ethical, cultural codes and guidelines that inform professional behaviours in leadership.
- Fundamentals of business in healthcare, including legal and professional requirements, business cases, financial planning, management, sustainability, outcomes/KPIs and innovation.
- Team communication strategies, including feedback and how to deal effectively with conflict in a proactive and constructive manner.
- Continuing professional development and navigating a health professional career.
- Interprofessional practice across the wider health sector, such as with in-industry examples and exposure to leaders and professionals implementing real world innovation.
- Principles of quality improvement, planning, safety, risk, workload management towards provision of safe, effective and efficient healthcare
- Current developments in digital technologies of entrepreneurship, leadership and management.
- Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Verbal communication
- Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Communicating using different media
- Graduate Attribute – Teamwork 1 Collaboration and negotiation
- Graduate Attribute Teamwork 2 – Teamwork Roles and processes
- Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies 1 – Information literacy
- Graduate Attribute - Digital Literacies 2 – Technical literacy
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.