You can complete one short course as a standalone credential or stack multiple to build towards a full postgraduate degree at Deakin. Want to know more?
Course overview
After completion of the short course, you’ll be able to apply these job skills immediately in your workplace:
- Critically analyse strategic systems of healthcare and aged care organisations.
- Enhance leadership effectiveness by application of the leadership capability framework.
- Design practical action and implementation plans for leading strategic change.
Entry requirements
To be successful we recommend you are proficient in English and have a minimum of an undergraduate degree in a related field or significant work experience.
Industry organisation and expert
Together with healthcare organisations we’ve designed a course where you’ll gain skills that you can apply immediately in your workplace.
Adjunct Associate Professor John Rasa is President of the Australasian College of Health Service Management and CEO of Networking Health Victoria.
Earn a digital credential
We’ve teamed up with Credly to award you a digital credential when you complete this industry-recognised stackable short course, plus you can bank the credit towards a Deakin postgraduate degree. You can also share your digital credential on social and professional platforms.
Course structure
How you'll learn
Go at your own pace with support from your educator and fellow learners during online learning activities and discussions. Complete your course within 6 weeks, including the assessment, or take extra time and use the regular assessment submission windows to complete within 24 weeks of your enrolment. During this time, you can book online consultation sessions with your educators to support your learning.
What you’ll learn
During the short course you’ll:
- critically analyse the evolving challenges and strategic opportunities within healthcare and aged care systems
- apply the leadership capability framework to assess and enhance leadership effectiveness in healthcare and aged care systems
- develop a practical leadership action plan that demonstrates the ability to lead strategic change in healthcare or aged care settings.
How you’re assessed
The objective of the assessment task is for you to develop a leadership action plan based on a specific professional challenge in healthcare or aged care.
Reshaping university education
An innovative learning structure delivered by a leading university. With more than 40 years’ experience in distance and online education, we’re proud to be adding this unique study format to our courses, providing you with more choice to further your career and fulfil your lifelong learning needs.
Ready to enrol?
It takes five minutes to register your details and sign up for a stackable short course. We have discounts available for Deakin alumni, staff and group bookings. Enrol today and get the skills you need to take your career further, faster.
Did you know you can apply credit to a postgraduate degree?
Unsure what degree you want to study? Study two short courses that interest you and apply both as credit towards a wide range of postgraduate degrees at Deakin – from business administration to nursing, sustainability to communication and more.
*Subject to successful completion of the short course and meeting Deakin’s award course admission and selection requirements, including English language proficiency requirements.
Limits on elective space in a destination degree are outlined in specific degrees’ course rules within the Deakin University Handbook. Typically, a maximum of four stackable short courses can be used as credit (2 credit points) towards a masters; and two stackable short courses can be used as credit (1 credit point) towards graduate certificates and diplomas.
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