Completing your placement at KHG
Students on placement work alongside staff members and learn how to utilise therapeutic approaches to encourage, support and extend program participants while contributing to the enhancement of the KHG garden and nursery.
Kevin Heinze Grow offers placements for tertiary students at both our Doncaster and Coburg sites. Students completing their placement at KHG may have the opportunity to:
- facilitate group sessions in our specialist program such as travel training, cooking, literacy and social skills
- deliver clinical assessments (i.e. Canadian Occupational Performance Measure for students studying Occupational Therapy)
- facilitate 1:1 therapeutic interventions (i.e. fine motor skill development, counselling, independent living skill training)
We provide supervision in the delivery of individual and group interventions as well as training in a range of therapeutic skills and frameworks.
We offer placements to tertiary students studying:
- Bachelor of Occupational Therapy
- Master of Occupational Therapy
- Master of Social Work
- Master of Urban Horticulture
We are currently partnered with:
- The University of Melbourne
- Victoria University
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
- Deakin University
- La Trobe University
- Australian Catholic University
If you are interested in completing your placement at Kevin Heinze Grow, please contact Nadie Inman on 03 9848 3695 or nadine.inman@kevinheinzegrow.org.au to discuss.
Hear from our tertiary students
“Kevin Heinze GROW has offered me the perfect opportunity to further explore my passion for Horticultural therapy. This placement has combined both my interest in the relationship between nature and humans along with my horticultural studies.
Experiencing first-hand the healing and positive influence of nature on human health, particularly within the disability sector has been very enriching. The inclusive, diverse and welcoming environment at Kevin Heinze GROW has been an additional bonus and help me work to my best potential with the support and encouragement of co-workers and mentors.”
– Dwij Jeetun, Master of Horticulture
“I completed my final Occupational Therapy placement at KHG, where I had a wonderful time meeting and working with the lovely participants and staff. This placement was very hands-on and quite different from the other placements I have had throughout my course, as the majority of my time was spent outside in nature.
I was also extremely lucky to have my placement dates fall during the end of Summer and the start of Autumn, as this is such a beautiful time of the year to be in the garden. This placement provided me with ample opportunities to strengthen my verbal and non-verbal communication skills with people of varying abilities whilst together we participated in programs such as life skills training, music therapy or therapeutic horticulture.”
– Mia Pearn, Bachelor of Occupational Therapy