Graduate Diploma in Health Leadership and Management

Program Overview

The Graduate Diploma in Health Leadership and Management equips health professionals with the knowledge and skills for leadership roles in health service management. The program covers core areas such as strategic leadership, workforce management, and quality enhancement, and offers elective courses to tailor the program to individual interests. Graduates are prepared for senior management positions in the public and private health sectors, both in Australia and internationally.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Graduate Diploma in Health Leadership and Management is a program that provides students with the theoretical and technical capacities for leadership roles in health service management in Australia or internationally. The program provides the opportunity for health professionals to upskill, push their career forward, and improve their employability. Students will develop their professional judgment, and graduate with the essential knowledge and skills required to improve health services across a range of settings. The program fosters essential skills required for health management and leadership roles including strategic leadership, change management, workforce management, quality enhancement, and decision-making.

Outline:

• Core Courses:
• Strategy, Policy and Change
• Health Leadership and Workforce Management
• Clinical Governance and Risk Management
• Elective Courses:
Please visit the program handbook to view the elective courses on offer.
• Course Structure:
The Graduate Diploma in Health Leadership and Management can be completed in one year of full-time study or 1.7 years part-time. The program is made up of six courses total, including:
• Three core courses
• Three elective courses
• Articulation:
The graduate diploma provides an articulation pathway into the master's program.
• Master of Health Leadership and Management

Assessment:

Careers:

There's strong demand for health management professionals in the public and private health sectors, both within Australia and globally. Graduates will develop transferable leadership skills that can be applied throughout their career into senior management positions at health service and health system levels. Many graduates occupy senior executive, general management, health ministry, and other health leadership roles in Australia and across the world. This program is ideal if you're looking for a career in:

• Health services general management
• Health services c-suite roles
• Government and non-government policy
• Medical communications
• Medical insurance management
• Non-government health service management
• Health economics
• Health program management
• Health care consultancy