JSB305 Professional Justice Placement
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| Unit code: | JSB305 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisite(s): | 96 credit points of JSB coded units. |
| Equivalent(s): | JSB980 |
| Other requisite(s): | at the discretion of the unit coordinator. |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $2,040 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $957 The pre-2021 commonwealth supported place (CSP) contribution amount only applies to students enrolled in a course prior to 2021. To learn more, visit our Understanding your fees page. |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,024 |
| International unit fee | $4,044 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | JSB305 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | 96 credit points of JSB coded units. |
| Other Requisite: | at the discretion of the unit coordinator. |
| Equivalent: | JSB980 |
| Coordinators: | Christopher Emzin | ca.emzin@qut.edu.au Christopher Emzin | ca.emzin@qut.edu.au Kelly Richards | k1.richards@qut.edu.au |
Overview
In order to operate effectively in the workplace, you will need to be able to connect and apply the knowledge and theory you have gained from the other units in the course to the practice of the profession in which you gain employment.
The possibility for this unit to be offered each semester will depend on the number of professional practices that are willing to participate.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify, discuss and apply professional conduct and ethics in the workplace ( CLOs 2.1, 2.2, 5.2, 5.3)
- Identify, research and evaluate the core issues of a problem identified by the relevant placement organisation (CLOs 4.2, 4.3)
- Apply research skills, discipline knowledge and problem solving skills to an identified real world issue in the workplace (CLOs 4.2, 4.3, 5.1)
- Demonstrate proficiency in communication, modes of working and other professional practice skills (CLOs 3.1, 3.3, 5.3)
- Applies critical reflection strategies to develop insights into professional learning and experience (CLO 4.2, 5.1, 5.2)
Content
You will work on a project or other work as discussed with and approved by the Unit Coordinator in a placement organisation that you, your academic supervisor and your professional supervisor have agreed adequately addresses a problem or gap identified in your selected workplace. The project will as closely as possible involve you in the day-to-day operation of the workplace organisation and require you to work in accordance with the QUT Code of Conduct and professional ethics under the supervision of a workplace supervisor to ensure you achieve the objective of completing the project/work and reporting upon it.
Learning Approaches
You will learn by undertaking work as directed by your workplace supervisor and reflecting on this experience. The writing of a report about your placement will assist you to synthesise theory and practice. For local placements, you will be required to attend the placement organisation for at least 10 days (at a minimum). You may negotiate with your placement supervisor and your academic supervisor to attend more days per week for a shorter number of weeks if this better meets the needs of the placement organisation.
Whilst undertaking the unit, you are required to speak with your academic supervisor to discuss your progress in the unit. This will include the insights you are developing into how the knowledge you have gained in earlier units assists your critical awareness of the workings of the organisation in which you are undertaking the placement. Where your placement requires access to sensitive material, you may be asked to speak with your academic supervisor on a fortnightly basis. You will also be contacted by your academic supervisor throughout the semester, via email, to check on your progress. Students may also attend professional development seminars across the semester.
Students may also have the opportunity to undertake a placement in a remote location. These placements are designed to give students the opportunity to work intensively with organisations that largely provide services to Indigenous communities. Remote Rural placements may be undertaken in a two-week block or over the course of a number of visits, with full days being spent in the workplace, depending on the requirements of the organisation. You are required to be in email and/or phone contact with your academic supervisor during your placement.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Students will receive feedback in various forms throughout the semester, which may include:
- informal: worked examples, such as verbal feedback in class, personal consultation
- formal: in writing, e.g. criteria sheets, written commentary
- direct: to individual students, either in written form or in consultation
- iIndirect: to the whole class.
Assessment
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Professional plan
This will comprise an outline stating the nature of your real world project or work commitment, the steps you will take to complete it and its value to the placement organisation. The Professional Plan will be due after three days of placement have been completed or in negotiation with the Workplace and Academic Supervisors.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Portfolio
This assessment will be negotiated between yourself, your placement supervisor and the academic supervisor. To meet the requirements of this assessment, students will either undertake a) project work, which involves an output; or b) practical work, which involves day-to-day practice work.
Examples of project work include:
- research papers
- policy documents
- literature reviews
- policy briefings
- planning documents
- other projects or work, at the discretion of the placement supervisor.
Examples of practical work include:
- witness support
- volunteers in policing
- court support
- youth work
- other approved justice- and/or policy-related volunteer work.
Students undertaking project work will be assessed on that project by their workplace supervisor.
Students undertaking practical work will provide a written report on their work experience, and will be assessed on that report by their workplace supervisor.
At the completion of the professional placement, the workplace supervisor will also provide students with written feedback on their professionalism and observations on how their professional skills were demonstrated. Students will then be able to reflect on their professional strengths and weaknesses, based on their supervisor's comments. The Portfolio will ordinarily be due in Week 12, but this may depend on the placement, and the due date can be negotiated with the Workplace and Academic Supervisors.
Due dates:
- Internal: Week 12
- Remote Rural: Week 12
Weight: 50% (30% workplace supervisor mark of final report; 20% workplace supervisor assessment of students' professional skills).
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Discussion forum
This will consist of an informal, weekly online evaluation of your own real world learning that includes critical reflection. You will be required to discuss individually your work placement and your learning experiences, as well as to engage in constructive discussion with your peers about their placement experiences.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
Working with children check (blue card)
If you're working with children or young people as part of your studies or work experience, you need to have a blue card linked to your QUT student profile before you begin your placement. A blue card confirms that you've passed a screening of your criminal history—the 'working with children check'—and are approved to work with children and young people under 18 years old in Queensland. Working with children checks are managed separately by states or territories according to their local legislation. For more details, please refer to blue cards on the QUT website, and using a blue card in other states. It is recommended applying for, or renewing, your blue card at least 28 days prior to your placement commencement date.
Queensland's Disability Worker Screening
Queensland's disability worker screening aims to improve the safety and quality of services being delivered to people living with disability. If you are seeking to work or volunteer with adults or children with disability in Queensland as part of your studies or work experience, you may need a clearance. For more details, please refer to Queensland's disability worker screening.
Police Check (Criminal History Check)
You may be required to undertake a criminal history check prior to commencing your placement. If you're required to do so, your placement organisation will provide details about what checks are required and how to apply.
Blue Card
A blue card is required to complete this unit. A blue card confirms that you have passed a screening of your criminal history (the Working with Children Check) and have been approved to work with children and young people. For more information on the blue card and how to apply please visit the QUT website.
Costs
Working with children check (blue card)
No cost through QUT. For more details, please refer to blue cards on the QUT website, and using a blue card in other states.
Queensland's Disability Worker Screening
For more details and associated costs, please refer to Queensland's disability worker screening.
Police Check (Criminal History Check)
For more details and associated costs please refer to QLD Government site Criminal history checks.
Resources
Any policy or procedures manuals that the placement/employer supervisor considers relevant.
Risk Assessment Statement
Students should become familiar with the emergency and evacuation procedures as they apply to their workplace.
Whilst on placement, students will be covered by QUT workers' compensation, public liability and professional indemnity insurance. It is also important to view the QUT WIL Health and Safety PowerPoint, 'Managing your rights, responsibilities and safety on placement', which will be made available on Canvas. If your placement involves overseas travel, it is also important that you become familiar with the protocols of QUT student travel, which are also explained in this resource.
You may have to sign a confidentiality agreement whereby you agree not to disclose any information learned in the course of the placement to any person outside the field placement office. You will need to understand matters of intellectual property, conflict of interest and insurance, which are also detailed in the Health and Safety resources.
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | JSB305 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | 96 credit points of JSB coded units. |
| Other Requisite: | at the discretion of the unit coordinator. |
| Equivalent: | JSB980 |
| Coordinators: | Christopher Emzin | ca.emzin@qut.edu.au Christopher Emzin | ca.emzin@qut.edu.au Kelly Richards | k1.richards@qut.edu.au |
Overview
In order to operate effectively in the workplace, you will need to be able to connect and apply the knowledge and theory you have gained from the other units in the course to the practice of the profession in which you gain employment.
The possibility for this unit to be offered each semester will depend on the number of professional practices that are willing to participate.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify, discuss and apply professional conduct and ethics in the workplace ( CLOs 2.1, 2.2, 5.2, 5.3)
- Identify, research and evaluate the core issues of a problem identified by the relevant placement organisation (CLOs 4.2, 4.3)
- Apply research skills, discipline knowledge and problem solving skills to an identified real world issue in the workplace (CLOs 4.2, 4.3, 5.1)
- Demonstrate proficiency in communication, modes of working and other professional practice skills (CLOs 3.1, 3.3, 5.3)
- Applies critical reflection strategies to develop insights into professional learning and experience (CLO 4.2, 5.1, 5.2)
Content
You will work on a project or other work as discussed with and approved by the Unit Coordinator in a placement organisation that you, your academic supervisor and your professional supervisor have agreed adequately addresses a problem or gap identified in your selected workplace. The project will as closely as possible involve you in the day-to-day operation of the workplace organisation and require you to work in accordance with the QUT Code of Conduct and professional ethics under the supervision of a workplace supervisor to ensure you achieve the objective of completing the project/work and reporting upon it.
Learning Approaches
You will learn by undertaking work as directed by your workplace supervisor and reflecting on this experience. The writing of a report about your placement will assist you to synthesise theory and practice. For local placements, you will be required to attend the placement organisation for at least 10 days (at a minimum). You may negotiate with your placement supervisor and your academic supervisor to attend more days per week for a shorter number of weeks if this better meets the needs of the placement organisation.
Whilst undertaking the unit, you are required to speak with your academic supervisor to discuss your progress in the unit. This will include the insights you are developing into how the knowledge you have gained in earlier units assists your critical awareness of the workings of the organisation in which you are undertaking the placement. Where your placement requires access to sensitive material, you may be asked to speak with your academic supervisor on a fortnightly basis. You will also be contacted by your academic supervisor throughout the semester, via email, to check on your progress. Students may also attend professional development seminars across the semester.
Students may also have the opportunity to undertake a placement in a remote location. These placements are designed to give students the opportunity to work intensively with organisations that largely provide services to Indigenous communities. Remote Rural placements may be undertaken in a two-week block or over the course of a number of visits, with full days being spent in the workplace, depending on the requirements of the organisation. You are required to be in email and/or phone contact with your academic supervisor during your placement.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Students will receive feedback in various forms throughout the semester, which may include:
- informal: worked examples, such as verbal feedback in class, personal consultation
- formal: in writing, e.g. criteria sheets, written commentary
- direct: to individual students, either in written form or in consultation
- iIndirect: to the whole class.
Assessment
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Professional plan
This will comprise an outline stating the nature of your real world project or work commitment, the steps you will take to complete it and its value to the placement organisation. The Professional Plan will be due after three days of placement have been completed or in negotiation with the Workplace and Academic Supervisors.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Portfolio
This assessment will be negotiated between yourself, your placement supervisor and the academic supervisor. To meet the requirements of this assessment, students will either undertake a) project work, which involves an output; or b) practical work, which involves day-to-day practice work.
Examples of project work include:
- research papers
- policy documents
- literature reviews
- policy briefings
- planning documents
- other projects or work, at the discretion of the placement supervisor.
Examples of practical work include:
- witness support
- volunteers in policing
- court support
- youth work
- other approved justice- and/or policy-related volunteer work.
Students undertaking project work will be assessed on that project by their workplace supervisor.
Students undertaking practical work will provide a written report on their work experience, and will be assessed on that report by their workplace supervisor.
At the completion of the professional placement, the workplace supervisor will also provide students with written feedback on their professionalism and observations on how their professional skills were demonstrated. Students will then be able to reflect on their professional strengths and weaknesses, based on their supervisor's comments. The Portfolio will ordinarily be due in Week 12, but this may depend on the placement, and the due date can be negotiated with the Workplace and Academic Supervisors.
Due dates:
- Internal: Week 12
- Remote Rural: Week 12
Weight: 50% (30% workplace supervisor mark of final report; 20% workplace supervisor assessment of students' professional skills).
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Discussion forum
This will consist of an informal, weekly online evaluation of your own real world learning that includes critical reflection. You will be required to discuss individually your work placement and your learning experiences, as well as to engage in constructive discussion with your peers about their placement experiences.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
Working with children check (blue card)
If you're working with children or young people as part of your studies or work experience, you need to have a blue card linked to your QUT student profile before you begin your placement. A blue card confirms that you've passed a screening of your criminal history—the 'working with children check'—and are approved to work with children and young people under 18 years old in Queensland. Working with children checks are managed separately by states or territories according to their local legislation. For more details, please refer to blue cards on the QUT website, and using a blue card in other states. It is recommended applying for, or renewing, your blue card at least 28 days prior to your placement commencement date.
Queensland's Disability Worker Screening
Queensland's disability worker screening aims to improve the safety and quality of services being delivered to people living with disability. If you are seeking to work or volunteer with adults or children with disability in Queensland as part of your studies or work experience, you may need a clearance. For more details, please refer to Queensland's disability worker screening.
Police Check (Criminal History Check)
You may be required to undertake a criminal history check prior to commencing your placement. If you're required to do so, your placement organisation will provide details about what checks are required and how to apply.
Blue Card
A blue card is required to complete this unit. A blue card confirms that you have passed a screening of your criminal history (the Working with Children Check) and have been approved to work with children and young people. For more information on the blue card and how to apply please visit the QUT website.
Costs
Working with children check (blue card)
No cost through QUT. For more details, please refer to blue cards on the QUT website, and using a blue card in other states.
Queensland's Disability Worker Screening
For more details and associated costs, please refer to Queensland's disability worker screening.
Police Check (Criminal History Check)
For more details and associated costs please refer to QLD Government site Criminal history checks.
Resources
Any policy or procedures manuals that the placement/employer supervisor considers relevant.
Risk Assessment Statement
Students should become familiar with the emergency and evacuation procedures as they apply to their workplace.
Whilst on placement, students will be covered by QUT workers' compensation, public liability and professional indemnity insurance. It is also important to view the QUT WIL Health and Safety PowerPoint, 'Managing your rights, responsibilities and safety on placement', which will be made available on Canvas. If your placement involves overseas travel, it is also important that you become familiar with the protocols of QUT student travel, which are also explained in this resource.
You may have to sign a confidentiality agreement whereby you agree not to disclose any information learned in the course of the placement to any person outside the field placement office. You will need to understand matters of intellectual property, conflict of interest and insurance, which are also detailed in the Health and Safety resources.