OCC3062 - Participation community practice 1: Development

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

1. Take responsibility for own attitudes and behaviour, by acknowledging prejudices, limitations, and lack of knowledge, and commitment to change and growth as a result of professional development, and reflective learning;
2. Adopt an ethical and socially responsible approach to practice and practice based enquiry;
3. Interact with consumers and carers in a fieldwork practice setting acknowledging their rights and using strategies to integrate their lived experience of health issues into service planning and delivery;
4. Apply theoretical understanding of primary care, health promotion and population health in a practice setting;
5. Describe the stages of program management;
6. Undertake a needs analysis by scoping an organizationally useful and occupationally relevant project or program;
7. Apply program management skills and function as a project manager and liaise with an organization to define a project;
8. Share power in relationships with service providers, community leaders, consumers and carers, as demonstrated by the development of a partnership approach to service development and provision;
9. Consult with service providers, community leaders, consumers and carers about their rights, service choices, and options;
10. Share resources in a mutual educational process to facilitate decision making and advocacy about service choices, and options;
11. Develop strategies to empower service providers, community leaders, consumers and carers to determine and set priorities for change; and
12. Use findings of assessments/needs analyses to develop programs using best available evidence.