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Unit of Study HLT10596 - Work and Employment Occupations (2016)

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    It is strongly recommended that you have completed the following unit prior to enrolling in this unit. [HLT10588] Musculoskeletal and Reduced Energy Assessments and Interventions

Unit description

Examines the impact of occupational performance limitations on productivity and employment due to physical, cognitive and psychosocial dysfunction and environmental constraints. Provides the opportunity to develop skills in methods used to assess, maintain, restore and enhance productivity roles.

Unit content

  • Paid and unpaid work
  • Occupational choice
  • Legislation - Workers' Compensation, Workplace Health & Safety; Disability Discrimination
  • Workplace assessments and job analyses
  • Functional Capacity Evaluations and other work-related assessments
  • Return to work plans and injury management
  • Case management
  • Ergonomics in the workplace
  • Prevention of work-related injury/illness (WHS)
  • Supported employment options.

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast Session 2 Session 2

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 explain the process of occupational choice and apply this to cases
2 analyse and evaluate productivity occupations with regard to specific criteria
3 evaluate the effects of physical, psychosocial and cognitive dysfunction on performance in paid and unpaid productivity occupations
4 plan and apply intervention strategies appropriate to paid and unpaid productivity occupations
5 plan therapeutic interventions to facilitate functional performance in productivity considering lifespan development, within a multicultural environment.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. explain the process of occupational choice and apply this to cases
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  2. analyse and evaluate productivity occupations with regard to specific criteria
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  3. evaluate the effects of physical, psychosocial and cognitive dysfunction on performance in paid and unpaid productivity occupations
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  4. plan and apply intervention strategies appropriate to paid and unpaid productivity occupations
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
  5. plan therapeutic interventions to facilitate functional performance in productivity considering lifespan development, within a multicultural environment.
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:

Prescribed learning resources

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