OCCT13001 - Enabling Work Participation

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this unit, you will explore the role of occupational therapy in assisting clients to engage in work, considering historical perspectives as well as contemporary legislative and professional frameworks that guide practice. Building on your emerging task analysis skills, you will identify enablers and barriers to work participation, for use in creating appropriate client-centred goals. You will engage in simulations using occupational therapy tools to evaluate work environments and clients’ functional capacity for work. Learning activities provide you with the opportunity to develop case management and return to work plans for clients with a range of physical and psychosocial conditions.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

The following unit is an essential co-requisite:

OCCT13007

Successful completion of the following units as essential pre-requisites:

OCCT12002

OCCT12004

OCCT12006

BMSC12007

HLTH12028


Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2022

Term 1 - 2022 Profile
Bundaberg
Rockhampton
Term 1 - 2023 Profile
Bundaberg
Rockhampton

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Presentation 25%
2. Written Assessment 35%
3. Case Study 40%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2022 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 16.67% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 57.14% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Have Your Say
Feedback
Goniometer training was hard to follow over ISL, needs to have a staff member present at each campus.
Recommendation
It is recommended that future staffing of this unit supports students directly at each campus, especially with hands on learning components.
Action Taken
Students were assisted by an onsite academic at both campuses to carry out all tutorial learning activities.
Source: Have Your Say
Feedback
Assessments were relevant to future practice application.
Recommendation
It is recommended that unit assessment tasks maintain their focus on being relevant to contemporary work enabling practice.
Action Taken
Inclusion of authentic assessment tasks was part of the curriculum design for this unit.
Source: Have Your Say
Feedback
Enjoyed the on-campus work site visits.
Recommendation
It is recommended that the collaboration continues between university maintenance and academic staff to provide the students with on-campus worksite visits.
Action Taken
Students took part in these visits again in 2022.
Source: Have Your Say
Feedback
There was overlap of content about lived experiences of Indigenous Australians.
Recommendation
It is recommended that the academic staff discuss where there is content overlap and in which unit the content is best retained. Teaching staff may need to source additional learning activities or learning resources to reduce the perception of overlap and to ensure deeper learning regarding the Indigenous content is facilitated.
Action Taken
Discussion among the occupational therapy academic team in order to map First Nations curriculum content across the CB84 course appears to have sufficiently addressed this concern.
Source: SUTE Unit coordinator reflection
Feedback
Students enjoyed the practical tutorial activities.
Recommendation
It is recommended that practical tutorial activities continue to be supported by an onsite academic at each campus location.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Assessment weightings seemed not to match the workload required.
Recommendation
It is recommended that assessment tasks be reviewed for student workload and ensure that requirements better align with existing assessment weightings.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: SUTE Unit coordinator reflection
Feedback
Assessment information was not clear at the beginning of term.
Recommendation
It is recommended that more details about assessment tasks are included in the Unit Profile so that students have clear instructions for each task published two weeks prior to the term.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: SUTE
Feedback
The timeframe for completing assessment 2 was too short.
Recommendation
It is recommended that the timing of the assessment suite for this unit be re-negotiated with other Year 3 unit coordinators to provide sufficient preparation time for students.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: SUTE Student comments and questions in class
Feedback
The client actor provided verbal information that contradicted the written case history for Assessment 2.
Recommendation
It is recommended that the client actor to be interviewed is briefed beforehand about key aspects of the case that need to be consistent for students.
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Describe occupational therapy roles for enabling work participation
  2. Use selected occupational therapy assessment tools to identify barriers to work participation
  3. Synthesise information from clients and stakeholders to set appropriate work participation goals
  4. Develop work-based interventions using contemporary evidence and clearly communicated professional reasoning
  5. Integrate principles from the legislation and occupational justice when planning inclusive occupational therapy interventions that promote work participation.

OCCT13001 learning outcomes link directly to the following professional standards from the Australian Occupational Therapy Competency Standards (2018):

  1. Professionalism: Standards 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.13, 1.15, 1.17
  2. Knowledge and Learning: Standards 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.8
  3. Occupational Therapy Process and Practice: Standards 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.7, 3.8
  4. Communication: Standards 4.1, 4.2, 4.4, 4.5, 4.10, 4.11

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
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• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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4 - Information Literacy • • • • •
5 - Team Work • •
6 - Information Technology Competence • • • • •
7 - Cross Cultural Competence • • • • •
8 - Ethical practice • • • • •
9 - Social Innovation • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
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