Leading Clinical Supervision in Health Professions
Postgraduate
TAS-CAM609 2026Course information for 2026 intake View information for 2025 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 15 Feb 2026
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Price from
- $2,919
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Leading Clinical Supervision in Health Professions
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to:
- Critically analyse the core concepts, methods and models of clinical supervision used in health and human service contexts.
- Design a comprehensive plan for supervision in your work setting that includes the implementation of supervision model(s), your evaluation strategy for this model based on evidence and best practices, and draw on underlying principles, the evidence base and the practices of different professions.
- Critically reflect on your workplace role in clinical supervision. Include the leadership challenges and implications of implementing new supervision models in your workplace.
- Module 1- Introduction to Clinical Supervision: Definitions, purpose and key characteristics
- Module 2- Frameworks and Conceptual Models of Clinical Supervision
- Module 3 -Legal and Ethical Issues in Clinical Supervision
This subject is designed to develop your knowledge and skills in relation to your leadership role for clinical supervision in health and human service professions. This subject emphasizes the continuous process of reflecting on and improving personal supervisory practices, ensuring that students are equipped to lead and innovate in their professional environments. Students in this subject will explore current literature and research on clinical supervision theory and practice, and critically review models of supervision across professions and health and human service contexts. Students will review their own clinical supervision experiences and practice within the existing models and will analyse, reflect and plan improvements in personal supervisory practice. This subject is suitable for health professionals working in a range of health and human service settings who are responsible, or who wish to develop skills, for supervising students and junior health practitioners.
- Academic Essay (35%)
- Discussion board participation (30%)
- Supervision plan (35%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-APH-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
- TAS-APH-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Individual Study 8 hours weekly; Independent Learning 2 hours weekly
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
Postgraduate
TAS-APH-GDIMaster of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
Postgraduate
TAS-APH-MAS