Unit Outline

This unit consolidates knowledge and skills related to collaborative leadership and public health, and synthesises them with skills and shared frameworks critical for allied health professionals working in community-based settings. Principles of population health and prevention and promotion strategies are used to examine the social needs or issues in a place or population group, prioritise issues for action, and match appropriate change action frameworks for population health in community-based practice settings. Forms of health care entrepreneurship and business are examined as a context for students to develop entrepreneurial attributes, including creativity, innovation, ethical public health analysis and critical abilities needed for work readiness in our complex and ever-changing world.

Intended Learning Outcomes

As per the Assessment and Results Policy 1.3, your results will reflect your achievement against specified learning outcomes.

On completion of this unit, you will be able to:


1.	Synthesise relevant scientific literature to examine a chosen topic area related to a select population and demonstrate advanced writing skills in a Critically Appraised Topic review to report implications for professional practice in community settings.
2.	Analyse professional, ethical, and social issues and needs related to select populations and evaluate their impact on professional practice in both public and private practice settings.
3.	Demonstrate collaborative leadership and entrepreneurship while working with others to analyse and make an informed decision about an ethical problem of local and global population health importance.
4.	Create innovative interprofessional service delivery proposals and evaluation plans that consider resource allocation, community needs, impact, and sustainability.

Alterations as a result of student feedback

This is a new unit. No alterations have been made as a result of student feedback.

How will I be Assessed?

For more detailed assessment information please see MyLO.

Assessment schedule


ASSESSMENT TASK #	ASSESSMENT TASK NAME	DATE DUE	WEIGHT	LINKS TO INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Assessment Task 1:	Case Study	Week 6	30 %	LO2, LO4
Assessment Task 2:	Critically Appraised Topic	Week 10	40 %	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4
Assessment Task 3:	Community Needs Assessment	Week 15	30 %	LO2, LO3, LO4

Assessment details

Assessment Task 1: Case Study

Task Description:

This assessment task requires students to examine systemic factors influencing allied health service delivery in public and private settings with a focus on health inequities and disparities. Students will respond to a series of questions that consider professional, ethical, and social issues related to the case study and propose a creative interprofessional service response plan that considers resource allocation, impact, and sustainability.

Task Length:

1500 words

Due Date:

Week 6

Weight:

30 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Evaluate and explain the systemic factors and social, economic, and environmental issues creating disparities in service delivery and health outcomes.	LO2
2	Differentiate professional and ethical considerations relevant to the select populations and/or practice contexts reflected in the case scenario.	LO2
3	Propose and justify a creative and sustainable interprofessional strategy to improve equity of service delivery.	LO4

Assessment Task 2: Critically Appraised Topic

Task Description:

Working in interprofessional groups of 3-4 students, Assessment Task 3 requires students to undertake a Critically Appraised Topic (CAT) review of health promotion initiatives that relate to the community needs analysis.

Each student group will produce a Critically Appraised Topic (CAT) review document demonstrating research and advanced writing skills to report implications for allied health practice in community-based settings. As a group, students will define a clear and focused question, develop a search strategy, identify relevant literature and critically appraise the evidence.

Individually, students will summarise the findings to propose a clinical bottom line (1 page). Each student will submit a CAT review document with both group and individual components. Outcomes will be examined in terms of impacts on health and social outcomes at a community or population level.

Task Length:

3000 words

Due Date:

Week 10

Weight:

40 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Use relevant scientific literature to critically examine the chosen topic area related to an identified community need.	LO1, LO2, LO3
2	Synthesise the characteristics and outcomes of effective health promotion and/or prevention strategies considering health, policy, and social impacts.	LO1, LO2, LO3
3	Use evidence to write a Critically Appraised Topic review document reporting the implications for interprofessional collaborative practice in community-based settings.	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4

Assessment Task 3: Community Needs Assessment

Task Description:

Community Needs Assessment.
This assessment task is attached to a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) experience, partnering with local Tasmanian organisations. The assessment task will be completed in interprofessional groups of 3-4 students.

Each group will identify a undertake a community needs assessment relevant to the placement context. The community should be described using the Modified Monash Model suburb and locality classification.

The assessment task involves 3 parts.

Part A. Community Profile: Group Task
As a team, you are to define and characterise the community based on a needs analysis that considers community initiatives, human and social services, healthcare services, and main places of employment.

Part B. Health Promotion Plan
As a team, you will devise an innovative health promotion initiative or strategy addressing the identified community needs. As a team, you will create a video pitch that describes and justifies the proposal, presenting a clear and convincing business case that could be presented to the partnering organisation and/or local council for consideration. The justification should consider resource allocation, impact, and sustainability.

Part C. Reflection
Each student is required to complete an individual critical reflection on the interprofessional project and their development of collaborative leadership capabilities.

Task Length:

1000 words, 15 minute pitch video and 500 word reflection

Due Date:

Week 15

Weight:

30 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Describe a community’s social demographic and health and social sectors.	LO2, LO3
2	Engage with stakeholders and complete a community need assessment that examines local policy, systems, and available services.	LO2, LO3
3	Devise and pitch an innovative and sustainable solution to strengthen public health policy, systems and environmental conditions for health.	LO3, LO4
4	Appraise own collaborative leadership capabilities to respond creatively to community need and influence public health.	LO3, LO4

How your final result is determined

To pass this unit, you need to demonstrate your attainment of each of the Intended Learning Outcomes, achieve a final unit grade of 50% or greater, and pass any hurdle tasks.

Submission of assignments

Where practicable, assignments should be submitted to an assignment submission folder in MYLO. You must submit assignments by the due date or receive a penalty (unless an extension of time has been approved by the Unit Coordinator). Students submitting any assignment in hard copy, or because of a practicum finalisation, must attach a student cover sheet and signed declaration for the submission to be accepted for marking.

Requests for extensions

If you are unable to submit an assessment task by the due date, you should apply for an extension.

A request for an extension should first be discussed with your Unit Coordinator or teaching support team where possible. A request for an extension must be submitted by the assessment due date, except where you can provide evidence it was not possible to do so. Typically, an application for an extension will be supported by documentary evidence: however, where it is not possible for you to provide evidence please contact your Unit Coordinator.

The Unit Coordinator must notify you of the outcome of an extension request within 3 working days of receiving the request.

Late penalties

Assignments submitted after the deadline will receive a late penalty of 5% of the original available mark for each calendar day (or part day) that the assignment is late. Late submissions will not be accepted more than 10 calendar days after the due date, or after assignments have been returned to other students on a scheduled date, whichever occurs first. Further information on Late Penalties can be found on the Assessments and Results Procedure.

Review of results and appeals

You are entitled to ask for a review of the marking and grading of your assessment task if there is an irregularity in the marking standards or an error in the process for determining the outcome of an assessment. Details on how to request a review of a mark for an assignment are outlined in the Review and Appeal of Academic Decisions Procedure.