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Professional Development Mental Health Scholarship

Applications open 12 June 2024

Applications close 27 June 2024

Fully funded postgraduate mental health scholarships to support workforce capabilities of NSW Health employees are now available.

This scholarship is explicitly to support professional development students who are interested in study in the Applied Mental Health Studies (AMHS) professional development course.

The scholarship will enable students to complete single units for professional development purposes. Please note that completing stackable credit requirements through assessment within each unit will empower students to carry completed units into an award in the future, should they so choose. There is also an option to complete the unit for professional development only, but this option does not recognise the study for stackable credit.

AMHS units are offered completely online over a five-week teaching period. They are designed with flexibility to meet the needs of the health workforce who are combining study with work and other commitments.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

NSW Health professionals (nurses, peer workers and allied health staff) providing mental health services to mental health consumers, or in service areas with contact with those with lived experience, will be eligible to apply for this scholarship. Students must fulfil the following requirements:

  1. Be an Australian citizen or permanent resident; and
  2. Be employed by NSW Health; and
  3. Work in mental health (nursing, peer workers, allied health staff) or related health services, or people working with vulnerable populations.

NOTE: This scholarship only supports students that are studying Applied Mental Health Studies units at HETI Higher Education.

To receive this scholarship, you cannot currently be a recipient of any other scholarship with HETI Higher Education or the Nursing and Midwifery Office.

WHAT DOES THE SCHOLARSHIP COVER?
The Professional Development Mental Health Scholarship will fund the entire unit fee of unit enrolment. Students can request up to three units with any single application, noting that the awarded funds need to be used within six months.

KEY DATES

As stated, students need to be admitted into a degree before applying for a scholarship. Applications for admission to the degrees are open now. Click here for eligibility criteria for admission and links to the application process.

  • Students are only able to apply for this scholarship between June 12th and June 27th 2024
  • Each course is designed to enable students to organise their study patterns to accommodate their individual circumstances, however they must commence study in 2024. Teaching Period dates are shown in the Academic Calendar. For those already in a degree program, the scholarship must be used within the required completion times.
  • Students can enrol in units on a teaching period by teaching period basis
  • Students must allocate scholarship funds to units by the unit census date of each teaching period. See the Academic Calendar for census dates

How to apply for the Scholarship

If you are a continuing student with HETI Higher Education, you will need to apply for a scholarship via the Scholarship Tab within myHETIconnect, following the process outlined below.

If you are commencing study with HETI Higher Education, you will need to apply and be accepted for study with HETI through our online admission form via myHETIconnect. Select Professional Development course PROD01, ensuring that supporting documents required as part of the admission process are supplied. Then:

  1. 1.Once admitted to the course, complete the HETI scholarship application via the scholarship tab via in myHETIconnect. The scholarship application will ask you to:
    1. Detail your role within NSW Health.
    2. Agree that you can meet the time commitment for completing your study load. Units of study within the postgraduate Applied Mental Health Studies course are equivalent to 50 hours of study per unit, over 5 weeks (10 hours per week). Students can choose their study commitment by managing their enrolment across the teaching periods. There are six teaching periods per year.
    3. Agree that you will actively engage with unit learning activities and recommended study support options such as resources to develop academic skills, library support, referencing guides and other resources.

HOW DO APPLICANTS KNOW IF THEY ARE SUCCESSFUL?

All applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application via myHETIconnect or email, usually within five working days of application submission.

WHAT IS REQUIRED OF A SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT?

Scholarship recipients are required to:

  1. Self-allocate their scholarship funding to units via the Scholarship Tab in myHETIconnect before the Census Date of each Teaching Period
  2. Actively engage with learning activities and support resources; and complete the unit assessment/s to at least a pass grade
  3. Participate in a feedback survey and other unit evaluation processes, that inform the quality improvement of learning at HETI

ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS

  1. Students who fail to successfully complete a unit due to non-attendance or not achieving a pass grade will not be funded to redo the unit.
  2. A student may withdraw from a unit via myHETIconnect on or before the Teaching Period census date (academic calendar) without penalty. However, if a student who withdrew from a unit post-census wishes to enrol in the unit/course again, it will also be at the expense of the student, unless there are extenuating circumstances which are outlined in the HETI Higher Education Special Consideration Policy.
  3. A student will forfeit remaining scholarship funds should they transfer to a specialisation not covered by this scholarship.

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 remaining scholarships monies will be forfeited. If you move from one Local Health District/Specialty Health Network to another, this does not constitute leaving the NSW Health System, and therefore scholarship monies remain with you.

FURTHER INFORMATION

If you would like information or advice regarding scholarships or courses, please contact:

Learning Pathways Unit

T 02 9844 6111

E support@heti.edu.au

Other Scholarship Opportunities at HETI Higher Education

There are a number of other scholarship opportunities while studying at HETI Higher Education, including: