OCC3062 Participation community practice 1: Development

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Take responsibility for own attitudes and behaviour, by acknowledging prejudices, limitations, and lack of knowledge, and commitment to change and growth as a result of professional development, and reflective learning;

2. 2

   Adopt an ethical and socially responsible approach to practice and practice based enquiry;

3. 3

   Interact with consumers and carers in a fieldwork practice setting acknowledging their rights and using strategies to integrate their lived experience of health issues into service planning and delivery;

4. 4

   Apply theoretical understanding of primary care, health promotion and population health in a practice setting;

5. 5

   Describe the stages of program management;

6. 6

   Undertake a needs analysis by scoping an organizationally useful and occupationally relevant project or program;

7. 7

   Apply program management skills and function as a project manager and liaise with an organization to define a project;

8. 8

   Share power in relationships with service providers, community leaders, consumers and carers, as demonstrated by the development of a partnership approach to service development and provision;

9. 9

   Consult with service providers, community leaders, consumers and carers about their rights, service choices, and options;

10. 10

    Share resources in a mutual educational process to facilitate decision making and advocacy about service choices, and options;

11. 11

    Develop strategies to empower service providers, community leaders, consumers and carers to determine and set priorities for change; and

12. 12

    Use findings of assessments/needs analyses to develop programs using best available evidence.