Leading Change in Health Services

• • Topics will include:
  • Theoretical underpinnings
  • - Leadership theory
  • Leading Change
  • - Developing leadership self-awareness
  • - Strategic thinking
  • - Effective communication
  • - Appraising political, social, technological and economic factors that influence health service delivery
  • Leadership in Action
  • - Leadership processes
  • - Strategic workforce management
  • - Leading and managing change processes (for example, accreditation, sentinel events, disaster/crisis, new technologies)
  • - Balancing supply and demand in equitable resource allocation
  • - Decision-making models and application to healthcare environment
  • - Developing intra and intersectoral alliances
  • - Organisational ethics and corporate social responsibility
  • Evaluating Change
  • - Evaluation of the relationship between governance, organisational culture and impact on organisational performance and quality improvement

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• ACU-LMH-MAS-2022

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

In this subject students will be supported to create strategies for organisational change founded on critical application of change theory, collaborative communication, workforce management and effective leadership. This subject is required by students who will, as leaders in driving change, need 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 develop skills necessary to address health service challenges and lead staff in opportunities for capacity building and quality improvement in a complex, evolving environment from both a national and international perspective.

In order to pass this unit, students are expected to submit three graded assessment tasks. In addition, students must achieve a cumulative grade of at least 50% across all assessments. In order to reward students for engagement and performance, a final graded result will be awarded. In this unit, to support students in being able to demonstrate unit learning outcomes and develop graduate attributes, a standards-based assessment is utilised, consistent with University assessment requirements. The assessment strategy allows for the progressive development of knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for the student to be able to demonstrate an understanding of leadership theory and the requisite skills necessary to achieve optimal outcomes when leading staff through change in health service delivery. These assessments are required to build student knowledge, skills and attitudes to graduate as a healthcare professional who can effectively lead staff through organisational change processes. A range of assessment strategies are used including assessing students’ ability to: (i) reflect on the ethical implications and effectiveness of strategic decision making in health service delivery through a written reflection; (ii) demonstrate the leadership skills necessary to effectively lead staff through a significant change process through group work and collaborative seminar presentation (iii) to apply knowledge and skill in leadership to develop a draft health service delivery report.

• Written Report - Enables students to reflect on the elements of effective leadership and impact of change processes in a health setting. (25%)
• Report - Enables students to apply knowledge and skill in leadership to develop a draft health service delivery plan/proposal/report. (45%)
• Presentation - Enables students to collaborate with peers to demonstrate the leadership skills necessary to effectively lead staff through a significant change process. (30%)

Current study term: 24 Jul 22 to 21 Oct 22