Graduate Certificate in Leadership (Health and Human Services)

Program Overview

This Master's program enhances the leadership and management skills of professionals in health and human services. It provides in-depth knowledge of health systems, policy, governance, and management practices. Students develop competencies in leading change, evaluating data, and translating evidence into practice. The program can be completed via distance study or with optional mixed-method delivery.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This course is designed to enhance the professional skills of health and human service professionals, clinical leaders, managers, and policy/planning practitioners working or aspiring to work in leadership or management positions within the broad health and human service sectors in Australia and internationally. Students will develop in-depth contemporary knowledge of health and human service systems across a range of leadership and management dimensions, including system planning, policy, strategy, governance, risk management, legal issues, ethics, health economics, financial management, quality safety, leading and managing change, professional supervision, epidemiology, evaluating data/evidence, and translating evidence into practice. The course can be completed entirely via distance study methods but can be supported with optional mixed-method delivery in some components of study at Hobart, Launceston, Burnie, and Rozelle campuses, particularly through short course intensives.

Learning Outcomes:

Demonstrate contemporary knowledge of effective health & human services leadership and management in professional practice. Lead the assessment and planning of interventions and services to improve access and quality and safety in health & human service delivery, in local national and international contexts. Communicate effective and innovative leadership responses to health and human services problems with a range of audiences in the context of professional practice. Apply leadership & management competencies in professional practice, including expert judgment, self-management, reflective and ethical practice.

Outline:

Compulsory Units

• CAM539: Leadership in Health and Human Services
• Provides a critical analysis of contemporary leadership frameworks and theories.
• Explores and applies theories and techniques to improve understanding of leadership in health and human services.
• CAM620: Management in Health and Human Services
• Introduces the interrelationship between health law and ethics, strategic planning, financial resource management, and health policy development.
• Develops a clear understanding of the dynamics of the healthcare environment.
• CAM621: Risk Management and Governance
• Provides a broad understanding of governance, clinical governance, and risk management in health and human services.
• Illustrates practical implementation of governance and risk management.

Choice Units

• CAM520: Global Health Systems
• Examines how health systems are designed, their key components, who pays, and how they are financed.
• Explores global health challenges and responses.
• CAM622: Positive Psychology in Leadership

Careers:

Career outcomes include middle and senior leadership/management positions within the health and human service system, including:

• Clinical leadership positions
• Professional discipline leadership positions
• Operational management positions within government and non-government organizations
• Senior policy and administrative positions within government and non-government organizations
• Service planning & commissioning roles within government and private practice leadership & management