Career Pathway

Running head: CAREER PATHWAY
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CAREER PATHWAY
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Description of the event and my role
With increasing rates of obesity among youths or adolescents in Australia, we set up a
health promotion event at a community church on one particular weekend. The rationale of the
event was to educate or create awareness about the causes, consequences and management of
obesity. This event attracted four professions including health promotion officer, public health
officer, health service manager and the recreation therapist. My role in this case was to act as a
recreation therapist. I was the one to formulate recreation services like games to enhance
physical and mental well-being of the participants.
Description of four professions
Working with families, carers, clients and patients is sometimes a big challenge that
needs critical thinking and collaboration among different professions. In this unit, I have learnt
that some of the four professions that can collaborate to provide quality health services include
recreation therapist, public health officer, Health service manager and finally the Health
Promotion officer (King, Nancarrow, Borthwick, & Grace, 201). I have learnt that each of the
four profession has unique roles though with a common objective of improved healthcare to
clients or communities. First of all, public health deals with safety and health of the public. The
public health officer is therefore supposed to interact with people to identify any problems and
come up with necessary solutions for the same (Sklar, 2015). Another profession that I learnt is
health service management. This involves planning and coordination of activities and other team
members towards a common objective. The recreation therapist on the other hand use recreation
activities like games in order to engage communities for better physical and mental health
(Malatzky & Bourke, 2017). Finally, the health promotion officer is all about assisting
communities to have full control of their health.

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Reflection of the roles played by the professions
During the health promotion event, each profession played different roles though the
roles were overlapping at some point. The public Health officer was the one who developed and
implemented interventions to reduce the risk of obesity. He was also responsible of identify the
population or the children that were at risk of obesity by estimating their Body Mass Index.
Furthermore, the Public health officer was also responsible of evaluating the effectiveness of the
prescribed interventions. He was using the impact evaluation method to achieve that. The public
health officer was also delivering the presentations to the risk groups. He was also supervising
and coordinating the other professions during the entire event. Finally, he prepared the report
summarizing all the activities conducted in the event.
The Health Service Manager played different roles in the entire event. First of all, she
was the one who was supervising, training and then recruiting suitable candidates for the event.
She was also the one who was following up and maintaining records on the budget of the event.
She was also responsible of running day to day records of the number of clients served. She was
also responsible of creating work schedules for other professions. Finally, she was coordinating
everything among the team members.
The Recreational Therapist was coming up with certain games for the participants to take
part in order to improve their physical and mental health. The health promotion officer was
working alongside different populations to identify health issues and their potential solutions. He
was also developing programs to improve health. He was also the one responsible of establishing
networks within the communities.