The subject is BECOMING AN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OFFICER.
Swinburne PPT Template Part 1 Developing your Professional Purpose Statement Graduate Diploma of Environmental Health Practice Louise Dunn Acknowledgements: Jacqueline Dohaney, Engineering Practice Academy Ongoing reflection… Professional Purpose Statement ( (initial) Experiences Structured - Interviews Meetings Unstructured – your own experiences with the world Professional Purpose Statement (revisit) Part 1 - Developing your Professional Purpose statement – collecting the evidence! This presentation aims to support you to write a Professional Purpose statement This session is about gathering ideas, reflecting, documenting and building some evidence about yourself to help you construct this statement Some of you may find this challenging – but stick with it! This does not need to be perfect –this is a dynamic process This is Part 1 of constructing the Professional Purpose statement please see canvas for Part 2 Learning Goals By the end of this presentation , you will be able to… Describe and define professional purpose Reflect on and document your personal values and interests Reflect on and document your professional values and interests Reflect on and document your societal values, interests and how you might contribute to society in your everyday life and work Professional Purpose Intersection between an individual’s personal, professional and societal values, interests and aspirations Mechanism to support you to form, refine, direct and achieve your unique career goals. Why do you think it’s important to incorporate the personal, and societal into your professional life? A theoretical reason.….. Your ‘being’, or who you are becoming cannot be separated from who you are Who you are becoming, both personally and professionally is shaped by many aspects of our lives, including the societal expectations associated with being a professional Assignment 1 Initial Written statement Imagine yourself in 5 years time..., Personal: Attributes: Who will you be? Goals: What will you achieve, personally? Capabilities: What will you be able to do? Professional: Attributes: Who will you be? Goals: What will you achieve, in your career as an environmental healh professional? Capabilities: What will you be able to do? What will your work lifestyle be? Societal: Contribution: What contribution and impact will you make on society, through your environmental health work and your everyday actions? Values Personal Professional Societal Your Interests and aspirations Integration of self Three key activities reflecting on Your values Interests and aspirations Integration of self -a frame to help write your statement You are gathering evidence about yourself! Overview of Professional Purpose activities to help write your statement Before you get started you need.. The evidence worksheet ( on canvas) Thinking and reflecting time ( at least one hour !) Yourself ! : You may also like to talk through this activity with a colleague or friend or workshop with another student in the program Lets get started ….. Professional Purpose Activity 1. Values [10 mins] Values What values are important to you? What are the professional values underpinning the practice of environmental health ? What are the values underpinning your organisation? What other values have shaped you? I encourage you to seek these out! The following slide provides a list of words that you may like to use to describe your values What are your core values? What guides how you live in your personal, professional and societal life? Important note: there’s no right or wrong answer, and you can always change these in the future Using the worksheet provided Reflect on your own personal, professional and societal values over the next few slides and use the worksheet provided to write some words down to describe these… • Aim to use at least 5 – 6 words for each of these areas • For example, I personally value fairness.. Personal values: What are the values that are important and core to how you live in your personal life? Important note: there’s no right or wrong answer, and you can always change these in the future Professional values: What are the values that are important and core to how you enact your professional life? Important note: there’s no right or wrong answer, and you can always change these in the future Societal values: What are the core values in how you feel about society, and your place in it? Important note: there’s no right or wrong answer, and you can always change these in the future The next step .. Professional Purpose Activity 2. Personal, Professional, Societal interests & aspirations [15 mins] Using the evidence worksheet Reflect on your own personal, professional and societal interests and inspirations over the next few slides and use the evidence worksheet to write done some words to describe these … Aim to use at least 5 – 6 words for each of these areas Personal Interests: What are the activities that you are passionate and curious about? Things you love doing? personal relationships: friendships, family and significant others sports fine arts & theatre hobbieswellbeing outdoor activities religious activities Important note: there’s no right or wrong answer, please add to these and you can always change these in the future crafts music leisure activities cookinggaming travel Professional Interests: What are your preferred work activities, projects, and sectors of environmental health ? Important note: there’s no right or wrong answer, you please add to these, they can always change these in the future Quality assurance project management Software, computer systems, technology app development indigenous health Health promotion research presenting networking Compliance activities, e.g. accommodation standards, noise, food, water, air quality Local, state, federal government, private sector Waste water planning Food security Health and wellbeing climate and environmental Innovation people management politics and governance humanitarian Education and training Army reserve not-for-profit Communicable disease control Emergency management Legal frameworks Professional lifestyle: How do you want to work? Commute time Freelancer or permanent hire? Ideal work hours Important note: there’s no right or wrong answer, please add to these and you can always change these in the future Team-based or solo work? Fast pace or slow pace? Full-time or part time? Preferred salary Travel time vs. home time? Do you want to be your own boss? Rigid schedule or more flexible? Short, brief projects or long, in depth projects? Society Interests: What are your interests and areas of society that you care about and want to make a difference? Important note: there’s no right or wrong answer, and you can always change these in the future indigenous cultures LGBTQI+ religious tolerance agriculturetechnology racial inequality waste homelessness law & justice food climate change warfare crime immigration government policy humanitarian aid education charity performing arts wealth inequality urban landscapes farming families and children gender inequality water resources poverty connecting to nature sanitation human rights natural disasters People and communities mental health The final step .. Professional Purpose Activity 3. Personal, Professional, Societal Integration of self [15 mins] Integration of Self Reflecting your worksheets & the words you have identified Try and write down how your key ideas fit into this diagram .. you find some may overlap Finish line for Part 1 .. Well done! This is your record of reflection , ideas and evidence to help you with the next stage of writing your Professional Purpose statement – Part 2 . The evidence worksheet is required to be submitted as your evidence to support your Assignment: Professional Purpose statement (initial) Developing your professional purpose statement Evidence Worksheet This worksheet is to be used in Part 1 – to support the development of your professional purpose statement (initial). Please submit with your statement Areas Words or ideas to describe your values Words or ideas to describe your interests and aspirations Personal Professional Societal