Graduate Diploma of Leadership (Health and Human Services)

Program Overview

The Graduate Diploma of Leadership in Health and Human Services enhances the professional skills of health and human service professionals, clinical leaders, and managers. It provides in-depth knowledge of health and human service systems, including leadership, management, policy, and research methods. The program can be completed entirely via distance study or with optional mixed method delivery, and offers a range of elective units to tailor the program to individual career goals.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

Overview:

The Graduate Diploma of Leadership in Health and Human Services (M6S) is designed to enhance the professional skills of health and human service professionals, clinical leaders, managers, and policy/planning practitioners who currently work or aspire to work in leadership or management positions within the broad health and human service sectors in Australia and internationally.

Objectives:

• 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 & managing change, professional supervision, epidemiology, evaluating data/evidence, and translating evidence into practice.

Program Description:

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.

Outline:

Core Units:

• CAM539 Leadership in Health and Human Services: Critically analyze a range of contemporary leadership frameworks and theories, focusing on exploring and practically applying theories and techniques to improve understanding of effective health & human services leadership and management.
• CAM620 Management in Health and Human Services: Introduces the interrelationship between health law and ethics, strategic planning, financial resource management, and health policy development; aims to help students develop 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 within the field of health and human services; illustrates some aspects of the practical implementation of governance and risk management.
• CAM720 Health Research Methods: Equips students with an understanding of research methods used in health disciplines in order to interpret published research and design research of their own; includes theoretical underpinning of both qualitative and quantitative methods.
• CAM722 Leading and Managing Change in Health and Human Services: Explores the nature of change within the broader environmental and organizational context, including exploration of current theories and research around leading and managing as well as diffusion of innovation; focuses on strategies for successful implementation.

Choice Unit:

Choose one of the following:

• CAM520 Global Health Systems: Examines health systems, their design, key components, and financing; takes a systems approach to understanding how health systems operate.
• CAM622 Positive Psychology in Leadership: Introduces the concept of positive psychology into leadership practices and principles; encourages critical exploration of theories, constructs, and models within positive psychology and their application in leadership.

Elective Units:

Choose two from the following:

• BAA755 Healthcare Organisational Behaviour: Examines internal and external factors that shape micro, meso, macro, and system behaviors in healthcare; scrutinizes how the operation of healthcare organizations is determined by stakeholder expectations.
• BFA526 Accounting for Managers: Focuses on the role of accounting for managers; teaches students to use financial and management accounting techniques to enable and enhance decision-making; includes financial statement analysis for decision-making about an organization's financial position, performance, liquidity, and solvency.
• BMA583 People, Work, and Wellbeing: Covers the effective management of human resources in various organizational settings, including professional practices, multinational corporations, public sector organizations, and not-for-profit organizations; emphasizes the impact of globalization, competition for talent, and technological advancements.
• BMA799 Strategic Management: Provides up-to-date guidance in the creation and implementation of effective strategy; covers international expansion, network advantage, resource optimization, and advanced skills for managers.
• CAM528 Introduction to Epidemiology: Explores principles, theories, and practice of epidemiology; provides a comprehensive introduction to collection and interpretation of epidemiological data within the framework of health, health care delivery, and human services.
• CAM530 Systems Thinking in Public Health: Introduces key systems thinking concepts and practical methods to address complexity in improving public health.
• CAM538 Translational Research and Health Service Innovation: Provides a framework for understanding the links between knowledge and practice; considers the when, why, and how of translational research in practice; cultivates capacity for successful translational research to improve health service innovation.
• CAM609 Clinical Supervision in Health Professions: Develops knowledge and skills related to clinical supervision in health and human service professions; explores literature and research on clinical supervision theory and practice.
• CAM618 Evaluating Health Interventions: Focuses on evaluation as a core function of public health and health system leadership; provides evidence to improve design, delivery, reach, and impact of health interventions in various contexts.

Careers:

Career Outcomes:

• 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