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Unit of Study OCCU2010 - Work and Employment Occupations (2021)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Pre-requisites

    BIO10587 Functional Kinesiology of the Upper Limbs and Trunk AND HLT10589 Lifespan Development and Occupational Transitions

Unit description

Examines the impact of occupational performance limitations on productivity and employment due to physical, cognitive and psychosocial impairments 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
Coffs Harbour
Session2
Session2
Gold Coast
Session2
Session2

Learning outcomes

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:

explain and apply the process of occupational choice

analyse and evaluate productivity occupations

evaluate the effects of physical, psychosocial and cognitive impairment on performance in paid and unpaid productivity occupations

plan and apply intervention strategies appropriate to paid and unpaid productivity occupations

plan therapeutic interventions to facilitate functional performance in productivity considering lifespan development, within a multicultural environment.

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