Graduates of the Bachelor of Allied
Health degree from CQUniversity will have the expertise to enter a wide range
of relevant Allied Health employment fields throughout Australia. They will be
exceptionally well placed to fill roles within aged care, Indigenous heath,
community health project management, health promotion, public health, health
research and articulation into other health education courses. Students will
have the opportunity to gain their Certificate 3 Allied Health Assistant
qualification as a part of their study within this degree which will enable
them to graduate as recognised Allied Health professionals. Students can choose
to exit the course after their first year with a Diploma of Health Science, or
after two years with an Associate Degree.
The Bachelor of Allied Health will also
provide students with the necessary skill set to enter professional graduate
entry Masters courses. Many Allied Health careers now prefer postgraduate
qualifications, and as such, our Bachelor of Allied Health is the first step
to a rewarding career in Allied Health. Graduates will potentially be able to
enter postgraduate education courses towards registering in professions such as
Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry and Speech Pathology.
Duration | 3 years full-time or 6 years part-time |
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Credit Points that Must be Earned | 144 |
Number of Units Required | CQUniversity uses the concept of credits to express the amount of study required for a particular course and individual units. The number of units varies between courses. Units in undergraduate courses normally consist of 6 points of credit or multiples thereof (e.g. 12, 18, 24). |
Expected Hours of Study | One point of credit is equivalent to an expectation of approximately two hours of student work per week in a term. |
Course Type | Undergraduate Award |
Qualification (post nominal) | BHSc(AlliedHlth) |
AQF Level | Level 7: Bachelor Degree |
Course Fees |
Indicative Year - 2023
Indicative Year - 2022
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Domestic Students Tertiary Admission Centre Codes (TAC) Codes |
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The COVID-19 vaccination is mandatory to be eligible to attend a WIL placement for this course. Students will be required to provide evidence of having completed a COVID-19 vaccination schedule by the closing date prior to a WIL placement. The vaccine received must be a vaccine approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) of Australia.
Rank Threshold | SR 60 | ATAR 60 |
English (Units 3 & 4, C) or equivalent
English Language Proficiency Requirements
If you were not born in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa or United States of America, you are required to meet the English Language Proficiency requirements set by the University. Applicants are required to provide evidence of completion of:
completed within Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, South Africa, Ireland, or United States of America, which will meet the English proficiency.
If you do not satisfy any of the above you will need to undertake an English language proficiency test and achieve the following scores:
Each student will be assessed individually.
It is recommended that potential applicants also complete either Biology, Chemistry or Physics to a Yr 12 level.
Interim Awards | Not applicable |
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Exit Awards | CB70 - Associate Degree of Allied Health CL13 - Diploma of Health Science |
Accreditation |
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Compulsory Residential School | All students will be required to attend a compulsory Residential School for ALLH11010 Skills for Allied Health Assistants. Further, some students may also be required to attend additional compulsory Residential Schools throughout their study if: - students study via Online - students select elective units with a residential school component |
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ALLH13009 - Students will be required to undertake 60 hours of professional placement in an Allied Health setting. During this placement, students will be required to undertake and perform duties typical of a work-ready Health professional. Whilst every effort will be made to arrange placement within the student's community, this is not guaranteed, which may mean that students are required to travel for their professional placement. |
ALLH11010 - Students will be required to undertake 80 hours of professional placement in an Allied Health setting. During this placement, students will be required to undertake and perform duties typical of an individual seeking their vocational award of Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance. Whilst every effort will be made to arrange placement within the student's community, this is not guaranteed, which may mean that students are required to travel for their professional placement. |
Year | Number of Students |
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2022 | 99 |
2021 | 101 |
2020 | 106 |
2019 | 121 |
2018 | 133 |
Please note that in some instances there may be similarities between course, entry and inherent requirements.
If you experience difficulties meeting these requirements, reasonable adjustments may be made upon contacting accessibility@cqu.edu.au. Adjustment must not compromise the academic integrity of the degree or course chosen at CQUniversity or the legal requirements of field education.
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Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) placements apply to this course and as such are subject to compulsory pre-placement conditions referred to as mandatory checks and are outlined in the health, security and other compulsory requirements sections. Mandatory checks are determined by industry, organisations, legislation, regulations, policies, and procedures. To be eligible for a WIL placement, students must first achieve compliance with mandatory checks by each closing date prior to a WIL placement and maintain current evidence for the duration of the course.
Mandatory health requirements include immunisation and vaccination evidence (and serology where required) to the following diseases: COVID-19 (up-to-date status), Hepatitis B, Measles, Mumps and Rubella, Varicella, Pertussis, Influenza, and Tuberculosis screening. Additional vaccinations or screenings will be subject to the site or state health authority. Respirator mask fit testing is also an annual requirement for this course.
The COVID-19 vaccination is mandatory to be eligible to attend a WIL placement for this course. Students will be required to provide evidence of having an up-to-date COVID-19 vaccination status by the closing date prior to a WIL placement. The vaccine received must be a vaccine approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) of Australia.
Mandatory security requirements include an Australian Federal Police clearance, working with children check, and NDIS worker screening clearance.
Other mandatory requirements include a First Aid and CPR certificate, student agreement to privacy and confidentiality, fitness to participate in WIL student declaration, jurisdictional and site-specific compulsory requirements, and other training modules.
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Australian Qualifications Framework Descriptors | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
1. KNOWLEDGE Have a broad and coherent body of knowledge, with depth in the underlying principles and concepts in one or more disciplines as a basis for independent lifelong learning | |||||||
2. SKILLS Have cognitive skills to review critically, analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge | |||||||
3. SKILLS Have cognitive and technical skills to demonstrate a broad understanding of knowledge with depth in some areas | |||||||
4. SKILLS Have cognitive and creative skills to exercise critical thinking and judgement in identifying and solving problems with intellectual independence | |||||||
5. SKILLS Have communication skills to present a clear, coherent and independent exposition of knowledge and ideas | |||||||
6. APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS Demonstrate initiative and judgement in planning, problem solving and decision making in professional practice and/or scholarship | |||||||
7. APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS Adapt knowledge and skills in diverse contexts | |||||||
8. APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE & SKILL Be responsible and accountable for own learning and professional practice and in collaboration with others within broad parameters | |||||||
KNOWLEDGE Develop an understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and culture in contemporary and historical context using the respectful and appropriate protocols and terminology | |||||||
APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS Engage in reflective self-evaluation of own cultural values and perspectives to proactively create an inclusive workplace that affirms and celebrates cultural diversity | |||||||
APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS Display leadership by creating inclusive work environments and work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in a culturally respectful manner |
Number of units: 16 | Total credit points: 96 |
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Recommended Allied Health MINORS for all other (non-CB66) students:
Allied Health:
Research for Health:
Recommended Allied Health MAJOR for all other (non-CB66) students:
ALL students must accumulate a total of 144 credit points.
These credit points will be broken down into eight (8) core units, eight (8) discipline units and eight (8) breadth / extension units.
Students wishing to gain the vocational award of Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance at the end of year 1, are advised to complete ALLH11010 Skills for Allied Health Assistants in Term 3. By doing this, students will also reduce their year 2 study workload.
YEAR 1
All students are required to complete six (6) compulsory core units in Year 1.
Students are then required to choose two (2) units from their selected minor/s or major to complete their first year of study, provided eligibility and requisite requirements are met.
Available units | ||
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Students must complete the following compulsory units: | ||
ALLH11001 | Introduction to Allied Health Practice | |
ALLH11006 | Life Course Development for Health Professionals | |
PSYC11010 | Fundamentals of Psychology 1: Understanding Human Behaviour | |
ALLH11009 | Research Methods for Health Professionals | |
BMSC11007 | Medical Anatomy and Physiology 1 | |
BMSC11008 | Medical Anatomy and Physiology 2 |
YEAR 2
All students are required to complete four (4) compulsory core units in Year 2.
Students are then required to choose four (4) units from their selected minor/s or major to complete their second year of study, provided eligibility and requisite requirements are met.
Available units | ||
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Students must complete the following compulsory units: | ||
ALLH12006 | Evidence Based Practice for Health Professionals | |
ALLH11010 | Skills for Allied Health Assistants | |
SOCL11060 | Being Bad | |
MPAT12001 | Medical Pathophysiology |
YEAR 3
All students are required to complete six (6) compulsory core units in Year 3.
Students are then required to choose two (2) units from their selected minor/s or major to complete their third year of study, provided eligibility and requisite requirements are met.
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Students must complete the following compulsory units: | ||
BMSC13010 | Pharmacology | |
ALLH14002 | Research Project for Health Professionals 1 | |
ALLH13011 | Rural and Remote Practice for Health Professionals | |
ALLH14001 | Research Project for Health Professionals 2 | |
ALLH13009 | Work-Integrated Learning for Health Professionals | |
MBIO12013 | Microbiology for Health Care |
Number of units: 4 | Total credit points: 24 |
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Many Indigenous Australians experience poorer health than other Australians, especially in rural, regional and remote communities. As such, they require care that is contextualised within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander systems of kinship, reciprocity and spirituality, and which acknowledges the intergenerational effects of past government policies, discrimination and racism on the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Australians. In this minor, you will engage with colonialism taking you into the national context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and perspectives in interface with non-Indigenous power and authority. You are enabled to make connections to the international global and colonial context. You will develop skill sets to critically investigate, argue and interpret issues around identity, nationalism and power, and to question issues and approaches that purport to be about ‘reconciliation’. You develop into a critical and ethical thinker enabled to be a transformative citizen skilled in the struggle for social justice.
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Students must complete the following compulsory units: | ||
INDG11015 | Contemporary Indigenous Issues | |
NURS11171 | Health, History and Culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples | |
INDG19015 | Aboriginal Cultures and Country | |
ENEV12002 | First Nations and Community Engagement |
Number of units: 4 | Total credit points: 24 |
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This minor has been designed to support credit, articulation agreements and transition arrangements. Students cannot opt-in to complete the Allied Health Liberal Studies minor. Please contact Course Advice for further information.
Number of units: 4 | Total credit points: 24 |
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The health landscape in Australia is changing rapidly and it is vital that health professions and policies adapt to meet the changing needs of our population. This requires a specialised combination of skills and knowledge to achieve system-wide change. Within this minor, you will learn about current and future health challenges in our population and develop skills in identifying needs and populations at risk, changing systems to improve health, advocating for disadvantaged groups and contributing to healthy public policy.
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Students must complete the following compulsory units: | ||
HLTH11027 | Foundations of Health | |
HLTH12028 | Health Promotion Strategies | |
HLTH12032 | Community Assets and Needs Assessment | |
SOWK13012 | Professional Practice and Mental Health |
Number of units: 4 | Total credit points: 24 |
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Note: Access to this Minor is restricted. Please contact the Course Advice Team to discuss. Rockhampton and Bundaberg campuses only. The Introduction to Physiotherapy and Introduction to Speech Pathology minors cannot be completed with this minor.
This minor is designed to introduce you to the profession of occupational therapy, including occupational, biomedical, and social foundations. Occupational therapists support people of all ages, and their families, to engage in their desired and required occupations and activities of daily life, optimising physical and mental health and wellbeing. During this minor you will be introduced to: the scope of contemporary occupational therapy practice; the history of occupational therapy; occupational therapy theories and models; foundational professional skills, including interviewing; how personal, environmental, and occupational factors can represent strengths and barriers to occupational engagement; and the support occupational therapists provide to people to achieve their goals. This minor is subject to quota availability.
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Students must complete the following compulsory units: | ||
OCCT11002 | Introduction to Occupational Therapy Theory and Practice | |
OCCT11001 | Introduction to Activity and Occupation | |
BMSC12007 | Neurological Physiology & Measurement | |
HLTH13035 | Health in all Policies |
Number of units: 4 | Total credit points: 24 |
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Note: Access to this Minor is restricted. Please contact the Course Advice Team to discuss. Rockhampton, Bundaberg and Cairns campuses only. The Introduction to Occupational Therapy and Introduction to Speech Pathology minors cannot be completed with this minor.
Physiotherapy is an exciting and rewarding allied health profession that has employment opportunities in hospital, community, sports and occupational settings. Physiotherapists work collaboratively with other health care providers to improve the quality of life for individuals with health and/or movement disorders. In this minor, you will develop an understanding of the ethical, legal and professional frameworks that underpin physiotherapy practice, including evidence-based and inter-professional healthcare. You will acquire basic knowledge and skills in the assessment of posture and movement, and the safe use of therapeutic massage, manual handling, and mobility aids in the context of physiotherapy practice. You will also be introduced to the physiological and biochemical determinants of exercise performance, and develop basic skills in the assessment and prescription of exercise for healthy individuals. This minor is subject to quota availability.
Available units | ||
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Students must complete the following compulsory units: | ||
PSIO11004 | Foundations of Physiotherapy Practice 1 | |
PSIO11003 | Foundations of Physiotherapy Practice 2 | |
BMSC12006 | Cardiorespiratory Physiology and Measurement | |
HLTH13035 | Health in all Policies |
Number of units: 4 | Total credit points: 24 |
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Note: Access to this Minor is restricted. Please contact the Course Advice Team to discuss. Rockhampton campus only. The Introduction to Occupational Therapy and the Introduction to Physiotherapy minors cannot be completed with this minor.
Speech Pathology is an exciting field that helps people overcome communication difficulties that prevent them from fully engaging with people around them. In this minor, you will develop an understanding and appreciation of how communication disorders across the lifespan create barriers to participation in community, education and employment. Strategies to facilitate development of language in children and improved understanding and use of language to promote better health outcomes will also be explored. This minor is subject to quota availability.
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Students must complete the following compulsory units: | ||
SPCH11001 | Introduction to Communication and Swallowing | |
SPCH12006 | Linguistics | |
SPCH12008 | Phonetics | |
HLTH13035 | Health in all Policies |
Number of units: 4 | Total credit points: 24 |
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In this minor, you will be introduced to the social and cultural bases of human behaviour and the theory behind the skills and interventions that are commonly implemented with clients in applied health and sports settings. You will examine human lifespan development, including cognitive and social development, and investigate social psychology as well as abnormal psychology. Additionally, you will analyse individual and societal attitudes to psychoactive drug use by exploring the history of its use, drug policy, public health responses and current media representations.
Available units | ||
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Students must complete the following compulsory units: | ||
PSYC11009 | Fundamentals of Psychology 2: Psychological Literacy | |
PSYC12050 | Applied Health and Sports Psychology | |
HLTH12030 | Drugs in Society | |
PSYC13017 | Foundations of Psychopathology |
Become an Allied Health
Assistant as a part of your study!
As a CB66 Bachelor of Allied
Health student, CQUniversity is proud to offer you the Certificate III in
Allied Health Assistance VET Qualification as a part of your study. This
certificate is the minimum qualification that you will need to gain employment
within most sectors of the Allied Health Industry. As such, once you have this
qualification, you will be able to gain employment as an Allied Health
Assistant (AHA) in a variety of fields. This means that you could start working
as an AHA to a Health Professional (including a Physiotherapist, Speech
Pathologist, Podiatrist, Occupational Therapist and many more), and be paid for
it whilst you complete your study. It's an opportunity for you to start working
within your desired field and to learn the ropes, meet people and start to
establish your professional networks!
To be eligible to apply for this
certification you are required to have passed the following seven units in your
first year of study:
ALLH11010 Skills for Allied
Health Assistants involves a 4-day residential school, followed by 80 hours of
professional industry placement. The rest of the unit content is delivered
online, via distance. The majority of the work required to pass this unit is
attached to your residential school and your professional placement. This unit
is the ONLY additional study you will be required to undertake to be eligible
to apply for your Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance Qualification,
and this unit can also be counted as an elective within your study plan, so no
additional fees are required. This unit will also be offered as a Term 1 unit from
2021, however we strongly encourage all students to take this unit as a Term 3
unit, as it limits the impact on your study load in Term 1.
It is ONLY once you have
successfully completed all seven of the above units that you will be eligible
to apply for your Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance qualification.
This qualification will help you
to gain employment and will provide you with an additional qualification that
others will not have AND it will allow you to start working within the industry
much sooner.
FAQs
I have received credit for
one of the mandatory units from prior study completed at another university, am
I still eligible for the embedded award?
If you receive credit / RPL for
some of the mandatory units above, you will not be eligible to receive the
embedded Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance. The mapping of a
VET award is extensive and requires us to not only show where we taught
specific content, but also when we assessed it. As such, we are unable to offer
the Certificate III in Allied Health as an embedded award for anyone who has
not completed the listed units, delivered through CQUniversity.
I have completed my
Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance; can I receive credit towards the
Bachelor of Allied Health?
Unfortunately, there are no
exemptions recognised with either the Bachelor of Allied Health or the Bachelor
of Speech Pathology for those who have completed the Certificate III in Allied
Health Assistance. This is because there are segments of the Cert III embedded
throughout 6 Higher Education (HE) units. In addition, any of our students
interested in gaining their Cert III are also required to complete an
additional unit, so that all competencies are met for the Cert III award. As
such, there is no capacity to grant credit for complete HE units.