Managing Professional Practice

Course aim

To enable students to reflect on their developing profile as a human service professional, and to learn ways of working effectively and ethically in the face of competing pressures.

Course content

Professional roles, responsibilities, identities and career development in the human services; professional identity; professional accountability; contemporary human service work contexts; cultural competence; managing time effectively; managing relationships in a dynamic and diverse professional environment; influencing and persuading to achieve desired outcomes; issues in written recording and reporting in the human services; coping with ambiguity; managing competing demands; decision-making models and application; thinking divergently and proactively; entrepreneurial thinking; working within an ethical decision-making framework; professional development.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

All first and second year courses of the Bachelor of Social Science (Human Services)

Corequisite(s)

Teaching method

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Decision making exercise, Learning log/Journal, Professional profile audit

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 1)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.