Unit Outline

This professional experience placement unit explores concepts associated with sustainable health care and service delivery through an occupational lens. Relevant frameworks, including the Sustainable Quality Improvement (SuSQI) principles are applied in practice to research, analyse and make recommendations for improvement in sustainable practice. Using participatory and collaborative methods you will plan and implement a project in partnership with a host agency and key stakeholders. The issue you are working on will be pitched to you by the agency and will reflect contemporary need for quality improvement for client focused service outcomes. You will demonstrate occupational therapy competencies at an intermediate level including professional practice, self-management and teamwork, communication, documentation, information gathering, critical analysis, service delivery, evaluation, and reflective practice.

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	Explain the relationships between sustainability principles and practices, occupational therapy, and service delivery.
2	Perform research literacy skills, information gathering, and synthesis aimed at quality improvement through a sustainability framework.
3	Use critical analysis and participatory methods to identify and recommend ethical quality improvements in service delivery for individuals, communities, and populations in a relevant practice context.
4	Apply critical self-reflection and the attributes of life-long learning to ongoing professional development as an occupational therapist and a client advocate.
5	Demonstrate professional attributes, including effective therapeutic communication, professionalism, and active engagement through inquiry and interprofessional collaboration.

Requisites


REQUISITE TYPE	REQUISITES
Pre-requisite	CXA718 Occupational Therapy Practice 2 CXA723 Occupation, Environment and Enablement
Co-requisite	CXA746 Developing as Allied Health Collaborators

Alterations 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:	Targeted Literature Review	Week 8	20 %	LO1, LO2
Assessment Task 2:	Sustainable Project Plan	Week 12	40 %	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5
Assessment Task 3:	Assessment of Occupational Therapy Practice	Refer to Assessment Description	0 %	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5
Assessment Task 4:	Sustainable Project Outcomes and Evaluation Report	Refer to Assessment Description	40 %	LO3, LO5

Assessment details

Assessment Task 1: Targeted Literature Review

Task Description:

Project Focus Literature review.
You will be allocated to an agency to undertake a structured project that addresses a need through a participatory sustainability focused quality improvement process.

Once the specific focus of your project is agreed, you will write a short literature review that outlines what is known of the topic theoretically and from previous evidence and research. The literature review will inform your Project Plan and the background section of your Project Report.

Task Length:

1500 words

Due Date:

Week 8

Weight:

20 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Create an answerable literature review question to explore a real-world topic.	LO1
2	Synthesise literature from multiple sources to answer an exploratory review question.	LO2
3	Perform research literacy skills for occupational therapy practice.	LO2

Assessment Task 2: Sustainable Project Plan

Task Description:

a) Project plan (2000 words):
Your Sustainable Practice Project PEP is located in a service that has identified an area of service delivery that would benefit from sustainability quality improvement measures.

You are required to devise and outline a quality improvement project that seeks to address the quality improvement topic through participatory methods and with a sustainability focus.

You must use terminology appropriate to quality improvement project design and evaluation methodologies.

b) Critical reflection (500 words):
You will also submit a short critical reflection identifying areas for your professional development, demonstrating attributes of lifelong learning.

Task Length:

2500 words

Due Date:

Week 12

Weight:

40 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Use a structured quality improvement reasoning process to devise a project plan.	LO2
2	Critically explain the relationships between sustainability principles and practices, occupational therapy, and service delivery.	LO1
3	Critically apply participatory and ethical methods to identify and justify sustainable quality improvements within a specific service context.	LO3
4	Critically reflect on practice to ensure actions are appropriate, timely, in scope and incorporate principles of risk identification and mitigation, and quality improvement.	LO4, LO5
5	Relate critical reflection back to key areas of need in ongoing professional development.	LO4

Assessment Task 3: Assessment of Occupational Therapy Practice

Task Description:

Assessment of Occupational Therapy Practice.

During your professional experience placement (PEP), you are required to demonstrate adequate performance in practice. The supervising occupational therapist and agency partner will assess your performance twice over the duration of the placement. One formative assessment will occur mid placement and another will occur at the end of the placement.

This is a hurdle task, you must pass this assessment to pass the unit.

Task Length:

216 hours

Due Date:

Refer to Assessment Description

Weight:

0 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Meet PEP requirements as outlined in the PEP guiding documents.	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5
2	Perform across the Spef-R2© and Stream B domains at an intermediate standard.	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5

Assessment Task 4: Sustainable Project Outcomes and Evaluation Report

Task Description:

On conclusion of your sustainable practice quality improvement project, you will write an industry standard process, outcomes and evaluation report. The audience of the report are internal (agency) and external (community) key stakeholders.
You will also verbally present your findings to your stakeholders.

Task Length:

2000 words (written report) No more than 20 minutes (presentation)

Due Date:

Refer to Assessment Description

Weight:

40 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Demonstrate project and consultancy skills in accordance with best practice guidelines for sustainability quality improvement.	LO5
2	Detail a sustainability quality improvement project in a participatory way, that includes the experience and views of consumers and / or people with lived experience.	LO3
3	Use best practice structured verbal and written communication for safely sharing information with a wide range of stakeholders for industry and community dissemination.	LO5
4	Identify risks and propose action-oriented recommendation strategies to mitigate the risk and/or improve quality.	LO3

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.

Academic progress review

The results for this unit may be included in a review of your academic progress. For information about progress reviews and what they mean for all students, see Academic Progress Review in the Student Portal.

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.

Academic integrity

Academic integrity is about acting responsibly, honestly, ethically, and collegially when using, producing, and communicating information with other students and staff members.

In written work, you must correctly reference the work of others to maintain academic integrity. To find out the referencing style for this unit, see the assessment information in the MyLO site, or contact your teaching staff. For more detail about Academic Integrity, see Important Guidelines & Support.

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.