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NSW Health is excited to partner with the Health Education and Training Institute (HETI) to offer scholarships to support NSW Health Mental Health Service staff providing mental support to children and youth, to undertake the Working with Families unit (8ALF019).

This unit will introduce students to the core elements of family therapy, including assessment of families and collaborative provision of selected approaches. At the completion of this unit students will be able to:

• Demonstrate application of the core principles of working with families in therapy
• Demonstrate application of selected family therapy and approaches tools; and
• Critically review the ability to deliver the chosen tools within a workplace.

At HETI, we are driven to make a difference in mental health. Uniquely placed within Australia’s largest healthcare system, HETI’s curriculum draws on leading specialists and experts while embracing the legacy from the NSW Institute of Psychiatry’s 50-year history.

HETI offers a number of courses within the Applied Mental Health Studies Framework. In addition to the formal postgraduate Award courses (Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Masters), HETI Higher Education provides the flexibility of studying units as Professional Development.

Successful completion of any of the units as Professional Development can count towards a degree should students decide to continue with their studies (e.g. a successful completion of 8ALF019 can count towards the Graduate Diploma in Applied Mental Health Studies).

WHAT DOES THE SCHOLARSHIP COVER?

The scholarship will be administered and delivered by HETI to NSW Health employees working in the area of Perinatal Mental Health, or in Child and Youth Mental Health Services.

The Working with Families (WWF) scholarship covers the total unit cost of $885.

Each Local Health District and Specialty Health Network will be allocated scholarship funds proportional to their scale. Any unallocated funds will be re-distributed to the LHD/SHN with the greatest unmet demand. In total, there are 100 scholarship places available.

KEY DATES FOR THE WORKING WITH FAMILIES SCHOLARSHIP

This unit will be offered in Teaching Period 2, starts 25 March 2024 and concludes 26 April 2024.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

To be eligible for the WWF Scholarship, students must fulfil the following requirements:

1. Be an Australian citizen, permanent resident, or on a working visa;
2. Be currently employed by NSW Health in the area of Perinatal and Infant or Child and Youth Mental Health Services; and
3. Not currently be a recipient of a scholarship for the Applied Mental Health Professional Development or Award Courses.

HOW TO APPLY FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP

If you are not a current student, you will need to:

1. Apply for study with HETI Higher Education through our online admission form into the Professional Development Course (PROD01) via myHETIconnect, selecting the course code PROD01;
2. You will receive an automatic unconditional offer;
3. You then complete the HETI scholarship application via the Scholarship tab in myHETIconnect. Note this step is separate from registration for Professional Development Course. The scholarships will be awarded equitably across LHD/SHN based on scale;
4. As part of your application briefly outline your current role, your workplace name and address, noting the requirements that applicants must be working within NSW Health in the area of Perinatal and Infant or Child and Youth Mental Health Services;
5. Provide the name and contact of your line manager and notify them of your intention to study the Working with Families Unit.

If you are a continuing Professional Development or Award student with HETI Higher Education, you will need to apply for a scholarship via Scholarship Tab within myHETIconnect. The steps 3-5 are the same as described above. Graduate Certificate continuing students need to apply through Professional Development pathway as 8ALF019 is at the Graduate Diploma level.

WHAT IS EXPECTED OF A SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT?

1. Once the outcome of the scholarship is known complete the unit enrolment into Working with families 8ALF019 via myHETIconnect;
2. Your approved scholarship funds will be available for you to allocate against the 8ALF019 unit in the myHETIconnect Scholarship tab;
3. The allocation of funds will need to be made prior to Teaching Period 2 census date; and
4. an assessment or a Reflection on Learning within the unit.

Students are responsible for self-allocating the scholarship funding to their units via myHETIconnect before the census date of Teaching Period 2. Any unallocated funds after census date (1 April 2024) will be forfeited by the student and cannot be deferred.

HOW DO APPLICANTS KNOW IF THEY ARE SUCCESSFUL?

All applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application via myHETIconnect or email. Successful applicants will receive an Offer of Scholarship Funding for the Working with Families unit (8ALF019).

WHAT HAPPENS TO MY SCHOLARSHIP IF I LEAVE NSW HEALTH?

If you fail to undertake studies, cease study without completing the course, or cease employment with NSW Health during study, then awarded scholarships monies will be forfeited. If you move from one Local Health District/Specialty Network to another, this does not constitute leaving the NSW Health System, and therefore scholarship monies remain with you.

WITHDRAWAL FROM A UNIT

Notification of a student’s intention to withdraw from a unit or course must be made online via myHETIconnect on or before the advertised teaching period census date (1 April 2024). Withdrawing from a unit forfeits the scholarship and cannot be deferred. If you decide to withdraw from the unit, you will need to apply for the scholarship again when it is available. No refund will be given for withdrawals from a unit or course beyond the advertised census date unless there are extenuating circumstances which are outlined in HETI Higher Education Special Consideration Policy.

Students who fail to complete the unit due to non-attendance will also forfeit any awarded scholarship monies and their student contributions for the unit/course of studies. If the student wishes to repeat or complete the same unit/course again, it will be at the expense of the student. Academic penalties will be applied as per the HETI Higher Education Enrolment Policy.

FURTHER INFORMATION

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