Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership in Health and Aged Care

Admission requirements

Applicants for the Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership in Health and Aged Care must normally hold a bachelor degree or equivalent qualification from an approved tertiary institution and at least 4 years post-degree professional experience with at least 2 years work experience at a senior management level.

The Dean (Education) may, under certain circumstances and subject to specific conditions, admit others who can show evidence of fitness for candidature.

Course aims

The course is designed to develop executive level leadership knowledge and skills for people working in the health and aged care sectors. The course aims to assist executives and senior managers in preparing their organisation for the future in an environment of shifting policies, changing consumer expectations and digital disruption. Through an experiential learning approach, using teams embedded in organisations, it is expected that the course will also contribute to organisational learning.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this course you will be able to:

evaluate leadership concepts and apply them appropriately to your practice of managing people and organisations
critique the interrelationship between organisational climate, dynamics and leadership behaviours
value the capacity for lifelong learning and how it contributes to organisational learning and change

Program of study

To qualify for the Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership in Health and Aged Care, a student must complete 18 units with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic, according to the following program of study.

Core - Year 1 topics

9 units comprising:

HACM8001 Executive Leadership in Health and Aged Care Part A – Leading High Performance Teams (4.5 units)
HACM8002 Executive Leadership in Health and Aged Care Part B – Enterprise Leadership (4.5 units)

Option - Year 1 topics

9 units selected from the following*:

HACM9102 Financial Management and Economics in Health and Aged Care (4.5 units)
HACM9104  Corporate Communications in Health and Aged Care (4.5 units)
HACM9200  Health and Aged Care Systems and Policy (4.5 units)
HACM9201  Health Law and Ethics (4.5 units)
HACM9202  Safety and Quality in Health Care (4.5 units)
HACM9206 Health Informatics (4.5 units)
HACM9207 Health and Aged Care Operations Management (4.5 units)

*Other postgraduate topics, relevant to a student’s field of work and professional interests may be selected with the approval of the Course Coordinator.

Every effort has been made to ensure the information published on the Course Rule pages is accurate at the time of publication. Flinders University reserves the right to amend its curriculum without prior notice, and will update the Course Rules to reflect any amendments at the earliest opportunity.