OCC5080 - Advanced professional practice - 2019

Students will complete a range of on-line and workbook tasks while undertaking an 8 week, full time, fieldwork placement. In this placement they will consider their own role within human service organizations and apply and critique contemporary practice knowledge in leadership and management, supervision and mentoring, organizational behaviour, change management, organizational governance and service quality, professional development, and complex, program based multidisciplinary teams. A learning contract developed in OCC5070 will be used to guide fieldwork learning. Fieldwork provides students with the opportunity to develop, integrate and enhance their practice skills to reach an entry level of competence in occupational therapy prior to graduation. By the end of the fieldwork placement, students will be managing a caseload of clients independently. A portfolio assessment will be used to encourage reflection, a self-directed approach to learning and to provide a record of professional competencies as these are developing.

1. Demonstrate professional attitudes and behaviours at the level expected of a new graduate occupational therapist as assessed through the SPEF-R;
2. Demonstrate autonomous and competent application of all stages of the occupational therapy process to the level expected of a new graduate in occupational therapy according to the Australian Minimum Competency Standards for New Graduate Occupational Therapists;
3. Reflect, develop and critique personal and professional learning using an electronic portfolio in preparation for professional accreditation, including opportunities for supervision and a plan for continual professional development that reflects a self-directed and life-long approach to learning;
4. Implement, critique and evaluate strategies to effectively meet own learning needs using a learning contract;
5. Provide effective occupational therapy service considering the broad political, legal and industrial issues in the workplace, profession and client group;
6. Critique and devise strategies to address the change management processes, human resource management and service planning and delivery structures within an organization;
7. Critique professional issues arising from contemporary practice as a result of organisational and team management, finance and partnering with consumer groups;
8. Create an original scenario that highlights evidence-based occupational therapy intervention/s for a client or group in the context of a client's total service provision from an agency or organisation.

Fieldwork comprises 4.5 days per week for 8 weeks. Fieldwork will require students to travel to fieldwork locations. These may be near or away from the campus. It is possible that this placement could be undertaken anywhere in the world subject to the standard of supervision as well as legal requirements as the accompanying teaching and learning activities are completed online.

• E-portfolio (including 2,000 words reflective statement) (30%)
• Oral portfolio & defence (20%)
• Completion of on-line discussion group and Zoom meeting tasks (2 x 5 minute presentations and 2 x peer reviews of a presentation) (25%)
• Case study (2,000 words) (25%)

Students will complete full time fieldwork for 4.5 days per week (33 hours) for 8 weeks plus self directed on-line learning tasks (4 hours per week) to support networking with peers.

See also Unit timetable information

Occupational therapy