Advanced professional practice

You will complete a range of on-line and workbook tasks while undertaking an 8 week, full time, Practice Education Placement (PEP). In this placement you will consider your own role within human service organizations and apply and critique contemporary practice knowledge in leadership and management, supervision and mentoring, organizational behaviour, change management, organizational governance and service quality, professional development, and complex, program based multidisciplinary teams. A learning contract developed in OCC5070 will be used to guide practice learning. Practice education provides you with the opportunity to develop, integrate and enhance your practice skills to reach an entry level of competence in occupational therapy prior to graduation. By the end of the Practice Education Placement, you will be managing a caseload of clients independently. A portfolio assessment will be used to encourage reflection, a self-directed approach to learning and to provide a record of professional competencies as these are developing