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The Graduate Diploma in Leadership and Management in Healthcare offers students the opportunity to build on their administrative or management foundations by evaluating current approaches to policy development and implementation in health care delivery.The structure of this course allows students to select a project stream or a research stream relevant to healthcare.

Build practical leadership skills for a wide range of healthcare environments. You’ll explore current approaches in play with healthcare administrators and managers. Delve into policy and planning. Work on coaching and mentoring.

Graduate Diploma in Leadership and Management in Healthcare

Aged Care Leadership and Management: Effective Internal and External Integration

This capstone subject builds on previous units in the course that focused on organisational culture and management (HLSC603), quality and safety in health care (HLSC604), leadership (HLSC605) and workforce management (HLSC606). These are critical aspects for effective leadership in a healthcare environment. Understanding organisational culture is essential for leading staff in managing resources for innovative practice improvement and implementing change processes.This subject is essential for students to be able to use advanced knowledge and skill to create strategies for organisational change founded on an evidence-base and critical application of change theory, collaborative communication, workforce management and effective leadership. As leaders in driving change, students will be supported in developing and applying the skills necessary to predict potential outcomes of change and the impact on workforce, organisational performance and safety and quality improvement.The aim of this subject is to develop health care leaders who will demonstrate competencies necessary to address health service challenges and lead staff in opportunities for socially responsible change, capacity building and quality improvement in a complex, evolving environment from both a national and international perspective.

Leading Change in Health Services

Future health service delivery will undergo substantial change due to an ageing population, high morbidity due to chronic diseases, technological advancement, changes in consumer expectations and economic constraints. These types of influence create pressure for new models or care and new, sustainable ways of building efficiencies into healthcare processes. This unit is essential for students to be able to develop theory-based knowledge and skill in redesigning health services, to be able to critically evaluate the role of evidence-based ethical practice in leading and managing process improvements and in creating effective cost efficiencies and better resource utilisation within a range of health care settings. Therefore, the aim of this Subject is to prepare leaders and managers of the future who can initiate and monitor health service redesign in practice that will lead to sustainable change in health service processes, improvements in organisational performance and better health outcomes.

Redesign in Health Service Delivery

As future leaders in health care, it is essential for students to be able to apply a theoretical foundation in the leadership and development of independent initiatives in their workplace.This subject gives students an opportunity to apply a range of advanced knowledge and skills that foster culturally safe, high quality effective health care through the creation of an effective solution to a unique administrative, leadership, educational or clinical challenge.This subject provides students with the opportunity to critically evaluate the role of evidence–based, ethical practice through investigation of a self–identified area of challenge and opportunity drawn from a clinical/professional issue previously studied in their Master course. The area of study must be measurable, appropriate for the level of the course and extend the topic/issue as it relates to the student’s workplace.This subject is required by students to ensure the fulfilment of the requirements of their Master course, that is, the Australian Qualifications Framework’s requirement for independent project work in the Master by coursework.The aim of this unit is to provide students with the opportunity to undertake self–motivated study and transition to life–long learning as a self–reliant and critically reflective professional.

Apply health leadership skills and theory to solve a clinical or professional challenge. You’ll choose a topic related to your coursework and conduct the project in your workplace. Write up your proposal, run your project, and present your findings.

Independent Project

As an aspiring health care leader, it is essential for students to understand the contexts within which healthcare decisions are made including social, economic, political and technological contexts, among others. While many healthcare decisions are made at the local level, decisions made at policy level will have an impact on all levels of health care and on all practitioners working within the health care system. Accordingly, this subject supports students in developing the ability to plan, implement and evaluate policy-related strategies that promote effective, culturally safe health service administration in a variety of health settings and among diverse communities, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Students will also be supported to develop specialised skills in analysing and evaluating solutions to complex problems that are associated with policy development, planning and implementation as well as the consequential outcomes of policy decisions.
This subject provides the opportunity for students to analyse issues that relate to policy development, planning and implementation in health care service delivery in Australia. This subject is founded on a social justice and equity framework with a special focus on evaluating policies that impact on the health of disadvantaged people, as well as on strategies that will reform policymaking, delivery and financing of health care in Australia.
The aim of this subject is to provide opportunity for students to explore policy decision-making processes, to analyse underlying assumptions associated with policy decisions, to evaluate outcomes of policy decisions and to appraise potential issues for policy reform.

Policy and Planning in Health Care

Leaders in healthcare must develop sound knowledge and skill in leading service transformation through transformation of self and others. Today’s leaders require personal leadership characteristics as well as the ability to facilitate others to achieve their potential through role modelling, supporting and empowering. This subject is necessary for future leaders who can lead others in planning, implementing and evaluating strategies and tools designed to resolve complex problems and optimise health for diverse population communities such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, among others, through innovative health administration practices that shape and improve healthcare systems.
The aim of this subject is to introduce students to contemporary theory-based leadership practices in order to develop knowledge and skill necessary for leading health service transformation.

Leadership in Health Care

Strategic management in health service delivery addresses health system design, delivery and evaluation. Globalisation has brought the need for healthcare management to be strategically planned and delivered with an awareness of both local and global implications because a broad-based response or approach may be required to address health service issues. This unit is required for students to develop a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge and skills, including critical analytical skills, required to apply a contextual, integrative approach to strategic management in health service delivery.In this unit students will consider the broad context of strategic health service management with reference to health service funding and health service delivery. Students will reflect on how awareness of strategy as it applies to health-related issues can influence consumer advocacy and political lobbying for the common good. In critically evaluating strategic, contemporary health service management students will develop skills in addressing national and international health priorities from a long term, consultative, social justice and equity perspective.The aim of this unit is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the theoretical basis underpinning health care management strategy and the ability to evaluate the implications of strategic decisions on health outcomes.

Plan for optimized healthcare using current technologies and strategies. You’ll learn to plan, implement, and evaluate changes in the workforce and health system. Improve patient outcomes. Increase accessibility to healthcare.

Strategic Management In Digital Health Service Delivery

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