Who should attend
Allied health students (and educators) undertaking professional practice placements with people with disability and other key supporters that the students work with during these placements.
What you will learn
The learning management system available aims to develop the skills and knowledge of allied health students to work with, and respond to the goals and needs of, National Disability Insurance Scheme - or NDIS – participants, who experience disability and complex support needs.
My Professional Practice Space also aims to provide students with information and knowledge to support transition into new graduate disability practice, should they choose to pursue future work in that area. For educators, My Professional Practice Space contains further information and tools to support and engage students throughout each placement.
After completing the 6 core modules, allied health students will be able to:
- Demonstrate foundational knowledge and understanding of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.
- Identify key principles and considerations for disability practice, including a strengths-based enablement approach; assessment selection; report writing and documentation; and service provision using both face-to-face and telehealth practice methods.
- Identify key telehealth principles necessary to consider for both practice education and future clinical work.
- Apply clinical reasoning (e.g., procedural, interactive, narrative and ethical reasoning) in various contexts, such as with people with disability in the community, the NDIS and telehealth.
- Apply relevant practice models and frameworks to LMS activities, supervision sessions and direct clinical work, including the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology (GATE).
Program structure
The 6 core topics areas will provide:
- guidance on working with people with disability in the community;
- an introduction to telehealth practice;
- an overview of the NDIS;
- information on the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission;
- details regarding the NDIS workforce; and
- an outline of provision of allied health services within the NDIS.
There is also
- an allied health placement starter kit, which contains further information and tools for educators to support and engage students throughout each placement;
- site-specific student learning information; and
- a module that provides examples of current professional practice collaborations the Monash University School of Primary and Allied Healthcare and our partner organisations have developed over time, for others to learn from.
When using My Professional Practice Space, students may be asked to work through all of the learning content offered, or students and educators may focus on key topics as a starting point for capability building.
Assessment
The learning management system has practice scenarios and exemplars; self-assessment quizzes; reflective tools and other activities that support students’ learning and placement supervision; however, there is no formal assessment.
