JSB305 Professional Justice Placement
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| Unit code: | JSB305 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisite(s): | 144 credit points of previous study |
| Other requisite(s): | Unit Coordinator approval |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $2,174 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $1,020 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 | $3,456 |
| International unit fee | $5,592 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2026, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | JSB305 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | 144 credit points of previous study |
| Other Requisite: | Unit coordinator approval. |
| Coordinator: | Dean Biron | dean.biron@qut.edu.au |
Overview
The unit provides experience in applying discipline knowledge in professional practice to strengthen discipline-specific learning and specialisation. In particular, it provides an understanding of professional communication protocols, professional conduct and risks within a workplace setting, a critical understanding of the role of reflection on learning and self-evaluation in professional environments, and analytical processes relevant to practice and Work Integrated Learning.
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:
- Discuss and demonstrate professional conduct, culturally safe and inclusive approaches, and ethics in the workplace.
- Plan projects to identify and address the core issues of workplace problems in social justice sectors.
- Research social justice issues in the workplace to propose solutions and/or recommendations drawing on scholarly and professional literature.
- Communicate about social justice and workplace issues in respectful, professional and ethical ways with other professionals and stakeholders.
- Reflect on personal values and professional practice to articulate career goals and professional identity.
- Discuss the impact of technology on the justice sectors, your professional identity and career plan.
Content
This unit will cover the following:
- Resume writing
- Responding to selection criteria
- Job interview skills
- Career planning
- Career opportunities and types of careers
- Engaging with justice industry partners
- Researching justice industry problems
- Writing recommendations
- Producing professional reports
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.
You may also have the opportunity to undertake a placement in a remote location. These placements are designed to give you 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
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- a range of formative exercises discussed and undertaken throughout the unit
- feedback from industry as you investigate and discuss issues raised throughout the work placement
- comments about summative assessment work included with your grade
- general summative assessment feedback posted to the whole cohort via the unit Canvas website.
Assessment
Overview
In this unit there are three assessments:
1. Placement Plan - This task builds on research and project planning skills to plan your project and work with the placement organisation.
2. Placement Portfolio - This task connects your placement experience with your professional development and practice.
3. Career Plan - This task builds on reflective practice and career skills to develop a career plan.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Placement 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.
The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools is allowed to help you study and find out more about the topic; noting AI-generated content may not be accurate, reliable, or may display bias. Any content generated may not be copied and included in your final submission.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Placement Portfolio
This assessment will be negotiated between yourself, your placement supervisor and the academic supervisor. To meet the requirements of this assessment, you will either undertake a) project work, which involves an output; or b) practical work, which involves day-to-day practice work.
Your workplace supervisor will provide feedback on your project and/or practical work. At the completion of the professional placement, the workplace supervisor will also provide you with written feedback on your professionalism, culturally safe and inclusive approaches and ethical conduct demonstrated during placement.
The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools is allowed to help you study and find out more about the topic; noting AI-generated content may not be accurate, reliable, or may display bias. Any content generated may not be copied and included in your final submission.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Career plan
You will reflect on your suitability for roles in the sector to identify your skills and strengths, areas in which you require further development and strategic next steps. Some of the areas to include are addressing the use and evolving nature of technology, inclusive and culturally safe practices, and ethics.
You will create a plan for your professional identity as a justice professional. Your plan will include creating a resume, preparing a portfolio to address selection criteria and career goals.
The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools is allowed to help you study and find out more about the topic; noting AI-generated content may not be accurate, reliable, or may display bias. Any content generated may not be copied and included in your final submission.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
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.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
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
You should become familiar with the emergency and evacuation procedures as they apply to your work placement.
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.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.JS34 Bachelor of Justice
- Apply social and criminal justice principles to explain justice issues and contexts.
Relates to: ULO2, Placement plan, Placement Portfolio - Collect and analyse evidence to inform decisions and recommendations in justice systems.
Relates to: ULO3, Placement Portfolio - Apply culturally safe and inclusive approaches to work with diverse communities and people as a Justice professional.
Relates to: ULO1, Placement Portfolio, Career plan - Communicate justice and social issues in respectful, professional and ethical ways with other professionals and stakeholders.
Relates to: ULO4, Placement Portfolio - Assess technologies and their impacts on social and justice sectors.
Relates to: ULO6, Career plan - Reflect on personal values and professional practice to articulate a professional identity.
Relates to: ULO5, Career plan
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2026, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | JSB305 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | 144 credit points of previous study |
| Other Requisite: | Unit coordinator approval. |
| Coordinator: | Dean Biron | dean.biron@qut.edu.au |
Overview
The unit provides experience in applying discipline knowledge in professional practice to strengthen discipline-specific learning and specialisation. In particular, it provides an understanding of professional communication protocols, professional conduct and risks within a workplace setting, a critical understanding of the role of reflection on learning and self-evaluation in professional environments, and analytical processes relevant to practice and Work Integrated Learning.
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:
- Discuss and demonstrate professional conduct, culturally safe and inclusive approaches, and ethics in the workplace.
- Plan projects to identify and address the core issues of workplace problems in social justice sectors.
- Research social justice issues in the workplace to propose solutions and/or recommendations drawing on scholarly and professional literature.
- Communicate about social justice and workplace issues in respectful, professional and ethical ways with other professionals and stakeholders.
- Reflect on personal values and professional practice to articulate career goals and professional identity.
- Discuss the impact of technology on the justice sectors, your professional identity and career plan.
Content
This unit will cover the following:
- Resume writing
- Responding to selection criteria
- Job interview skills
- Career planning
- Career opportunities and types of careers
- Engaging with justice industry partners
- Researching justice industry problems
- Writing recommendations
- Producing professional reports
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.
You may also have the opportunity to undertake a placement in a remote location. These placements are designed to give you 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
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- a range of formative exercises discussed and undertaken throughout the unit
- feedback from industry as you investigate and discuss issues raised throughout the work placement
- comments about summative assessment work included with your grade
- general summative assessment feedback posted to the whole cohort via the unit Canvas website.
Assessment
Overview
In this unit there are three assessments:
1. Placement Plan - This task builds on research and project planning skills to plan your project and work with the placement organisation.
2. Placement Portfolio - This task connects your placement experience with your professional development and practice.
3. Career Plan - This task builds on reflective practice and career skills to develop a career plan.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Placement 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.
The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools is allowed to help you study and find out more about the topic; noting AI-generated content may not be accurate, reliable, or may display bias. Any content generated may not be copied and included in your final submission.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Placement Portfolio
This assessment will be negotiated between yourself, your placement supervisor and the academic supervisor. To meet the requirements of this assessment, you will either undertake a) project work, which involves an output; or b) practical work, which involves day-to-day practice work.
Your workplace supervisor will provide feedback on your project and/or practical work. At the completion of the professional placement, the workplace supervisor will also provide you with written feedback on your professionalism, culturally safe and inclusive approaches and ethical conduct demonstrated during placement.
The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools is allowed to help you study and find out more about the topic; noting AI-generated content may not be accurate, reliable, or may display bias. Any content generated may not be copied and included in your final submission.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Career plan
You will reflect on your suitability for roles in the sector to identify your skills and strengths, areas in which you require further development and strategic next steps. Some of the areas to include are addressing the use and evolving nature of technology, inclusive and culturally safe practices, and ethics.
You will create a plan for your professional identity as a justice professional. Your plan will include creating a resume, preparing a portfolio to address selection criteria and career goals.
The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools is allowed to help you study and find out more about the topic; noting AI-generated content may not be accurate, reliable, or may display bias. Any content generated may not be copied and included in your final submission.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
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.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
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
You should become familiar with the emergency and evacuation procedures as they apply to your work placement.
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.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.JS34 Bachelor of Justice
- Apply social and criminal justice principles to explain justice issues and contexts.
Relates to: ULO2, Placement plan, Placement Portfolio - Collect and analyse evidence to inform decisions and recommendations in justice systems.
Relates to: ULO3, Placement Portfolio - Apply culturally safe and inclusive approaches to work with diverse communities and people as a Justice professional.
Relates to: ULO1, Placement Portfolio, Career plan - Communicate justice and social issues in respectful, professional and ethical ways with other professionals and stakeholders.
Relates to: ULO4, Placement Portfolio - Assess technologies and their impacts on social and justice sectors.
Relates to: ULO6, Career plan - Reflect on personal values and professional practice to articulate a professional identity.
Relates to: ULO5, Career plan