Graduate Certificate in Health Management

Overview

As the global population ages and diseases grow more complex, demands on healthcare resources require skillful management. Health services managers have an increasingly crucial role in this rapidly changing world. Future-proof your career with leadership and management skills and ensure that you are positioned at the forefront of change and innovation with UNE’s Graduate Certificate in Health Management.

Why study the Graduate Certificate in Health Management with UNE?

The world of healthcare is rapidly changing, with increasingly complex systems and service delivery. Health service managers meet these challenges head on, providing optimal resource utilization and effectively leading and managing services and people. Gain the foundation you need as a future leader in the health management field with UNE.

Delivered flexibly online, our Graduate Certificate in Health Management is ideal if you are seeking employment in health management, or to further progress your studies in the future. If you are a member of the Australasian College of Health Service Management (ACHSM), successful completion of our Graduate Certificate also serves as evidence of continuous learning and professional development.

By choosing UNE, you will be studying with an industry leader in the provision of online lifelong learning. In fact, we are Australia’s longest continuous provider of distance (now online) education.

What makes our course different?

The Graduate Certificate in Health Management provides a strong foundation to be a future leader in health management. This course offers opportunities to:

Gain an introduction to healthcare leadership skills, information and knowledge management, an understanding of Australian healthcare systems, and the legal foundations of healthcare management.

Develop communication skills to ensure that whatever your role, you can communicate effectively and thrive in interprofessional, collaborative healthcare environments.

Learn from a curriculum that has been developed in close consultation with senior health managers and leaders and is aligned with the ACHSM Master Health Service Management Competency Framework which outlines the necessary competencies that health managers should possess.

Study flexibly — our Graduate Certificate in Health Management is delivered wholly online so that you can study at any time or place around the world, when and where it suits you.

At UNE, we know that our students value flexibility when it comes to balancing study with other professional and personal commitments. We’re proven online experts — UNE is the only public university in Australia to be awarded the maximum 5 stars for Overall Excellence, 14 years running.

Study online

Most of our students choose to study online across three study periods with 24/7 tutor support* and fit study around work and family commitments. Uniquely, our online students are mostly over 30 and bring valuable experience with them. They form a community of adults juggling the same challenges and priorities and who bring their life and work experience together at UNE in order to become future-fit and better respond to a rapidly changing world.

Study on campus

Many of our students choose to take advantage of the on-campus lifestyle in Armidale, in the beautiful New England region, with access to unparalleled support, accommodation and sporting facilities. These students are often starting their first degree and have left school recently. Through access to academic and career support they get a fantastic start to their careers.

* 24/7 tutor support includes: essay feedback (within 24 hours); live chat 24/7 for generic feedback on academic writing; and subject-specific help at a foundation or first-year level for subjects including mathematics, chemistry, biology, physics, business, accounting, microeconomics, macroeconomics and statistics. There are also a wide range of workshops, resources and courses available in academic skills support to assist your and help you to succeed.