Build on your professional expertise to extend your knowledge and skills. This 12 month part-time external course is designed for health professionals who want to enhance their current qualifications and take the next step in their career.

Expand your technical proficiency to design, manage, and evaluate rehabilitation plans for individuals and communities in culturally diverse populations. You will learn to develop solutions for complex problems in health professional practice.

With a focus on tropical, rural, remote and Indigenous communities, you will complete one core subject and select one of four majors (outlined below). View the handbook for a detailed overview of available subjects. The full-time study planner provides more information for students commencing July 2020 and assists in planning your enrolment in the Graduate Certificate of Rehabilitation.

Graduates may be eligible for credit towards a Graduate Diploma of Rehabilitation or a Master of Rehabilitation.

Majors

General

Enhance your expertise in the fields of public health in the workplace, mental health, people living with a disability, and palliative care. Learn how to critically appraise and analyse research publications in the fields of health and rehabilitation, and gain greater insight into the application of assistive technologies.

Occupational Therapy

Extend your knowledge of assistive technologies, rehabilitation strategies for people with a disability, and the delivery of health services within palliative care settings. Students develop assessment and management skills in relation to the human-machine-environment (HME) and build a greater understanding of the research and theory base underpinning a range of health care domains.

Physiotherapy

Work with some of Australia’s most highly regarded physiotherapy, health, and medical practitioners to expand your existing professional skills and experience. You will explore core clinical fields as well as specialty areas of practice such as burns, amputees and women's health. Develop assessment and management skills in relation to the human-machine-environment (HME). Deepen your knowledge of assistive technologies, strategies for people with a disability, and the delivery of health services within palliative care settings.

Speech Pathology

Be equipped with the most up-to-date knowledge and practical skills in the field of speech pathology. Enhance your current professional qualification/s to explore more specialised methods of diagnosing and managing adults and children with complex communication and swallowing disorders. This major will enhance your ability to apply evidence based practices to optimise functional communication and quality of life.

A Graduate Certificate of Rehabilitation from JCU will equip you with recognised professional development that will increase your leadership skills and develop your career in a rehabilitation-related area of healthcare.

Graduates pursue careers in various areas including acute wards and rehabilitation settings with public and private health providers, aged care, private practice, policy development, or research.

You could pursue your specialisation in roles such as clinician, case worker, or researcher