Teaching & Learning
What you'll learn
Explore key policy issues and legislative frameworks in statutory social work with adults, identifying the challenges of empowering and person centred practices with a range of adult social care user groups.
Understand the professional, ethical and legal principles that underpin social work with children, young people and their families.
Focus on the social work communication and engagement skills that will enable you to demonstrate your readiness for direct practice with service users and carers.
Undertake a 70 day placement in a local agency providing social care services, testing your own capability to undertake a range of relevant social work roles in predominantly less complex situations with supervision and support.
Develop your knowledge of key methods, approaches and evidence-based practice within modern social work, analysing the applicability of identified methods of intervention within a range of contexts and across different service user groups.
Explore the use of research in social work and how research evidence can be critically applied to support evidence-based practice.
What you'll learn
Critically examine the professional, ethical and legal principles that underpin social work with vulnerable adults and children, both in the statutory and third sector. You'll explore the relevance of power and the organisational context for ethical decision making in social work practice.
Explore the use of research in social work and how research evidence can be critically applied to support evidence-based practice.
Undertake a 100 day placement in a local agency providing statutory social work services, testing your own capability to undertake a range of relevant social work roles in more complex situations.
What you'll learn
Evaluate an area of social work practice in depth, identifying your own learning outcomes. You'll critically analyse legal and policy imperatives, theoretical perspectives and professional role in an area relevant to your practice learning.