Length: 2,500 words
Format: Job Application
Rationale
This assessment evaluates your knowledge of interacting realities and professional environments which influence how you as a professional can engage with culturally diverse communities. Completing this assessment will allow you to better understand the hierarchies in health and your individual capacity to enact cultural competency and enable cultural safety in a practical way.
Style and Referencing
Fonts & Colour:
- Times New Roman
- Arial
- Helvetica
- Black font ONLY
Spacing:
- 1.5
- Double spacing
Justified text:
- Justified (refer to video below)
Reference Requirements:
If you are unsure, please complete RefQuest or speak to the library.
- Minimum of 16 Scholarly sources these include.
- Book chapters (e.g., the textbook for this unit)
- Your professional Guidelines
- NHMRC Guidelines (Question 3)
- Campina-Bacote 2002 Reading (Question 3)
- Peer-reviewed Scholarly sources
- Government Reports
- Not accepted references:
- Websites (including Facebook and other random websites)
- Lectures
- Personal blog posts
Written structure.
- First person may be used in questions 1, 7 and 8 OR if you are referring to an example in the table for Question 3.
- The use of third person must be used for the remainder of your written response questions 2, 3 ,4 , 5 and, 6.
- The use of contractions is not accepted.
- Australian English only.
Instructions
A copy of the Position Description (PD) is available here.
Cultural Liaison PD Updated – 2023.docx Cultural Liaison PD Updated – 2023.docx – Alternative Formats
Cultural Liaison PD Updated – 2023.docx Cultural Liaison PD Updated – 2023.docx – Alternative Formats
This assessment involves you answering the following 9 questions and is presented as a job application with the headings listed below.
Program- List your specific program/discpline in which you are enrolled (not the program you would like to be in) (i.e., Paramedicine, Health Promotion, HSM, OT, HPE, Physio, Podiatry, TCM, Recreational Therapy, Sport and Exercise Science, Public Health, Speech Pathology, etc.).
1. Best Candidate – What about your profession/discipline, makes you the best candidate for the role of ’cultural liaison’ within the NSW Paramedic Health Service? (approx. 100 – 150 words)
2. Theoretical Relevance– Demonstrate your understanding of the theoretical relevance and relationship between social determinants, human rights, cultural competence and health outcomes. (approx. 150 – 200 words) Please note, if you have completed the other question that is completely fine as well.
3. Professional Guidelines– Identify, with practical examples and links to your professional guidelines, how you would support and/or enact the five key constructs of cultural competency and how they align with the four NHMRC levels for the NSW [insert your discipline] Health Service. (approx. 300 – 400 words). These 2 documents are below in the resources tab.
4. Relationship to Cultural Safety– Demonstrate knowledge of your professional guidelines/policy and their relationship to cultural safety. (approx. 250 – 300 words)
5. Barrier and Facilitator– Demonstrate an understanding of a barrier and facilitator to culturally safe and competent professional practice for both staff in your profession and health consumers. (approx. 200 – 250 words)
6. Power Relations– Demonstrate your understanding of power relations between practitioner and client. How do power relations influence consent and, how can a health practitioner obtain consent in a culturally safe and appropriate manner (250 words)
7. Best Person for Role– Given your disciplinary expertise, understanding of cultural competence and cultural safety demonstrate how your understanding of health theory (e.g., social determinants, human rights, etc.) makes you the best person for this role/position at the NSW (insert your discipline) Health Service? (approx. 150-200 words)
8. Case Study- How can you as a future health science practitioner integrate your understanding of equity, culture, and diversity into your academic studies and professional conduct, while also exploring and evaluating various strategies for enhancing cultural competency in your practice? Use an applied client example to support your response. (300 words)
9. References– APA Format Please download and follow all instructions for the assessment, located in the assessment folder on vUWS. All requirements must be followed.
Resources
Cultural Liaison PD Updated – 2023.docx Cultural Liaison PD Updated – 2023.docx – Alternative Formats
- Required for Question 3: Campinha-Bacote, J. (2002). The process of cultural competence in the delivery of healthcare services: A model of care. Journal of transcultural nursing, 13(3), 181-184.
- Required for Question 3: NHMRC (2004) Guidelines – investigate Individual, Systematic, Organisational and Professional.
- Spencer, C. (2007). Cultural competency in health: a guide for policy, partnership and participation. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine, 5, 1-6. (NHRMC Document mentioned above)
Criteria
- Profession Listed
- Theoretical Framework Outlined
- Professional Identity
- Professional Guidelines
- Barriers and facilitators for cultural safety outlined
- Case study demonstrates applied example of cultural diversity
- Linkage of health theory with cultural safety
- Academic Writing
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