The Master of Social Work (Qualifying) is a two-year full-time equivalent course. The course meets the Australian Social Work and Accreditation Standards (ASWEAS 2023) and is an entry qualification into the social work profession. Social work is an academic practice-based profession that promotes social justice, inclusion and wellbeing.
Course Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the Master of Social Work (Qualifying), graduates will be able to:
Knowledge
Critically reflect on theory and social work practice demonstrating knowledge, skills and values that meet the ASWEAS (2023).
Integrate knowledge of concepts of human rights, social justice, law and the human services system, with the social work approach.
Critically reflect on social work’s engagement with an understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their ways of knowing, being and doing.
Skills
Design, implement and reflect on social work interventions with individuals, families, groups, and communities across a range of contexts.
Apply and evaluate decision making processes and professional judgments using social work values and ethical frameworks (AASW Code of Ethics 2020).
Critically review and demonstrate culturally safe practices and recognise the lived experience of service users and families.
Application of Knowledge and Skills
Generate and use research to advance, apply and maintain evidence-informed social work practice to deal effectively with complex issues affecting individuals, groups and communities.
Identify own learning needs for effective leadership in community and health services settings and develop strategies for lifelong career and professional development.
The course provides a pathway for prospective students who intend to study social work but do not have the pre-requisite social science knowledge in their undergraduate degree. It provides for students to develop knowledge of sociology, psychology, Australian society and academic and professional communication that are the building blocks for the social work course at the Master’s level.
Course Learning Outcomes
On completion of the Graduate Certificate in Social Science, students will be able to:
Articulate and critically evaluate the relevance of sociological theories for social work theory and practice.
Conceptualise the underpinning psychological theories for social work knowledge and practice.
Demonstrate an understanding of key issues of Australian society.
Utilize cognitive and communication skills to relate to diversity of people and cultures.
The Graduate Certificate in Health Management at CHS will accelerate your readiness for Australia’s booming industry. With this course, you will extend your knowledge and skills in the Australian healthcare system. You will develop an extensive understanding of the contemporary challenges, leadership and management as well as governance, safety and quality in the Australian Healthcare ecosystem.
The Graduate Certificate in Health Management is designed to be oriented to Australia’s healthcare industry and its complexity and necessities in order to enhance our students’ job readiness.
This course also enables the students to proceed to Graduate Diploma in Health Management and Master of Health Management. CHS offers a pathway to Master of Health Management and an exceptional research experience with the combination of research methodology, contemporary theory and industry practice.
Course Overview
The Graduate Certificate in Health Management is a postgraduate course that aims to build core knowledge and skills in students and healthcare professionals through development of enhanced knowledge and understanding of contemporary issues in healthcare, self, individual and team leadership and quality, safe, collaborative healthcare practice and delivery.
Course Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate the leadership capabilities required to effectively manage self, individuals and teams in the delivery of healthcare.
Evaluate current healthcare challenges to improve the quality of healthcare delivery.
Design appropriate strategies to address current quality and safety challenges in healthcare.
Develop plans to build and improve own leadership and management capabilities to enhance collaborative practice to address current and future organisational needs.
The Graduate Diploma in Health Management is a postgraduate level course that aims to expand on the knowledge and skills developed in the Graduate Certificate to enable the application of theories, evidence, models and frameworks to achieve best practice for the management and leadership challenges commonly faced in healthcare practice.
Course Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate the leadership capabilities required to manage healthcare delivery and services;
Develop effective communication skills to engage teams and enhance collaboration;
Apply critical thinking skills to devise best practice, evidence-based solutions to healthcare challenges;
Evaluate own and others’ contribution to teamwork using recognised frameworks; and
Demonstrate mindfulness of cultural, social and economic diversity and be sensitive to the needs of marginalised population groups, particularly Indigenous Australians.
This is an advanced-level course in healthcare management that aims to expand students’ and healthcare professionals’ knowledge and skills in healthcare management in the areas of people and resource management, governance, quality and safety, health economics and strategic planning, leadership of change initiatives, eHealth, technology and health research.
Course Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the Master of Health Management, graduates will be able to:
Demonstrate critical thinking and reflective leadership that influences practice and use policy and research to foster excellence in health care delivery.
Use effective leadership capabilities (or behaviours and skills) to manage health services and apply change management and quality improvement processes.
Lead others in a diverse, complex and challenging situations to achieve team and health organisation goals.
Demonstrate ethical, cultural and social accountability when interacting with individuals, members of multidisciplinary teams, families and community members.
Address cultural, social and economic diversity, particularly that of Indigenous Australians, and integrate this knowledge into their health management and leadership practice
