Unit of Study PBHL5010 Contemporary Health Leadership (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

PG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Health
Placement

No

Unit description

Offers the contextual, organisational and personal insights needed for healthcare professionals to lead and manage in the health, social and community care settings. Students will learn how to understand and accept individual differences, develop teams and cope with the power and politics of organisations. The contemporary complexities and dilemmas of healthcare provision in a constrained operating environment will be addressed.

Unit content

Theories of management in health, social and community care systems
The genesis of leadership theory
Challenging leadership, its nature and alternatives
Diversity: being ‘different’ in the health, social and community care systems
The future of healthcare leadership

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
SCU Online	Summer Term Term4	Summer Term Term4

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

distinguish the differences between management and leadership and how they complement each other

critique existing leadership and management theories in health, social and community services, challenging prevailing paradigms, world views, values and taken-for-granted ideas

develop an evidenced-based management and leadership plan in the workplace within health, social and community services

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Structured online learning (6 weeks)

Assessment
Discussion board	10%
Critical review	30%
Framework	60%

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts

Gopee, N & Galloway, J, 2017, Leadership and Management in Healthcare, 3rd edn, Sage, London. ISBN: 9781473965027 .

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Fee information

Domestic

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