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Unit of Study WELF3005 - Planning and Delivering Human Services (2023)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    .

Unit description

Critically analyses human services planning and examines the organisational dimensions of delivering human services, including teamwork, leadership, governance and the management of resources.  

Unit content

  1.  Human services organisations
  2.  Evidence-informed planning
  3.  Culture, ethics and structure
  4.  Leadership, collaboration and supervision
  5.  Service user experiences
  6.  Worker experiences

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast
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Online
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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:

analyse human services planning with particular reference to ethical and social justice issues

analyse teamwork and leadership in human services organisations

analyse how human services organisational policies, structure and culture impact on service delivery

identify processes that enable service users to influence service delivery and design.

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • Ozanne, E & Rose, D , 2013, The organisational context of human service practice, 1st edn, Palgrave Macmillan, South Yarra, Vic.. ISBN: 9781420256390.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
  • No prescribed resources/equipment.

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