Health Non-Clinical
Work Integrated Learning Placements

Professor Lynn Riddell, Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), Faculty of Health: 

Welcome to the Health Work Integrated Learning Program at Deakin! We are thrilled to have you as a host supervisor for our students. Your commitment to guiding and nurturing the next generation of graduates is greatly appreciated.  

We hope that your experience as a supervisor will be as rewarding as it is for our students. This website has been designed to assist you by providing support, training and ongoing resources. You'll find three main sections within: Become a Host Organisation, Supervisor Training and a Resources section.   

In the Become a Host Organisation section, you will meet some of our host supervisors and current students; learn about the types of placements and the process of hosting placements. The short training modules are informed by evidence and lived experience to prepare and support you in the supervisor role. These modules cover best practices, effective feedback techniques, and insights into fostering a positive learning environment. We want to ensure you feel confident and equipped to guide our students. Under the Resources section, you'll find administrative forms, university compliance information, checklists and templates to assist you with the supervision process.  

Thank you once again for being an essential part of the Health Work Integrated Learning Placement program. Together, we are building a community that fosters growth, learning, and excellence in health industry. If you ever need assistance or have ideas to share, don't hesitate to reach out. Let's make this placement a remarkable journey for everyone involved! 

Matin Ghayour Minaie (Meli)

Benefits of Hosting Student Placements

Meli is a leading community service organization committed to strengthening community through supporting people in the Barwon region. We offer a unique combination of about 100 programs to support people throughout their lifetime from any childhood through to adolescence and adulthood. Our vision is to provide a fair, safe and inclusive community where everyone can thrive, including our staff and students on placement. Consistent with these organizational values is our commitment to building connections and collaboration with existing and new partners such as Deakin University where we can work together and learn from each other through translating knowledge into practice and vice versa.

I believe that partnerships are designed and developed to build organizational capacity and to reduce service gaps. An important aspect of this partnership is hosting students from different disciplines which provides us with an opportunity to create a culture which is highly engaged with recent knowledge and theoretical backgrounds for our interventions. Through supervising the students our staff are practicing how to apply governance ensuring quality is monitored at multiple levels within the teams and also other applying and modelling active listening, effective collaborations and sharing of information and ideas.

Hosting students inspires us to create personal change by building awareness for different approaches to life and appreciating varying perspectives respecting the unique needs of others. In celebrating individual differences in the workplace. The student's enthusiasm and involvement in the project tasks such as recruitment, developing materials and resources, designing and evaluating interventions can be motivating for the team. And the positive outlooks and different connections to the community can prove very helpful. Student placement is a symbiotic relationship that benefit both Meli and Deakin University, fostering mutual growth and learning. true collaboration we gained valuable insights that inform our efforts to empower our communities and drive positive change.