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Unit Summary

Unit type

PG Coursework Unit

Credit points

12

Faculty/College

Faculty of Health

Anti-requisites

HLTH5001 - Leading Change in Healthcare

Unit aim

An examination of change within health, social and community care settings.

Enables participants to evaluate, examine and critically reflect on leadership knowledge and apply those capabilities to leading innovation within health, social and community care settings. Participants use a fusion of evidenced based approaches, intra-personal and inter-personal capabilities to evaluate innovative practices within their continually changing workplace.

Unit content

  • Contexts and mechanisms influencing innovation
  • Strategic policy and the implementation of innovation
  • Leading change and leadership models
  • Leadership theories and capabilities in leading innovative healthcare change 
  • Psychological constructs influencing implementation of innovation
  • Applying principles of evidence and evaluation to support innovative change within health, social and community settings

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:
1 explore the contexts of organisational environments to identify and respond to drivers supporting and negating opportunities for innovative change
2 apply a range of management and leadership theories to health, social and community services to critically explore the efficacy of each theory in achieving innovative change
3 propose innovative change framework in health, social and community care settings including planning, implementation and evaluation

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

  1. explore the contexts of organisational environments to identify and respond to drivers supporting and negating opportunities for innovative change
  2. apply a range of management and leadership theories to health, social and community services to critically explore the efficacy of each theory in achieving innovative change
  3. propose innovative change framework in health, social and community care settings including planning, implementation and evaluation

Prescribed texts

  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed texts may change in future teaching periods.