Course overview
The award extends and consolidates your learning and practice from Professional Capability Level at ASYE Level to Social Worker Level. It is offered in partnership with local agencies some of whom use the qualification as a means of career progression and is therefore relevant to their needs and the needs of local service users. The award explores key aspects of contemporary social work, focusing in particular on requirements of the relevant professional standards. Attendance at the University is required for six days taught over a period of three months.
The course is delivered at Teesside University Darlington.
Course details
What you study
The award explores key aspects of contemporary social work, focusing in particular on requirements of the relevant professional standards.
How you learn
The award involves a series of key lectures which centre on issues impacting upon contemporary practice, developing reflective practice through critical enquiry and analysis of the frameworks of understanding which impact on social work practice. This is accompanied by a further series of lectures concerning key questions in social work interventions, including partnership, assessment methods and models, legal and policy developments, models of inter-professional and inter-agency work and the concept of risk. Theory is taken as representing both formal and informal ideas and beliefs which impact on practice, and therefore a consideration of values and ethical frameworks are also vital to understanding practice.
How you are assessed
Assessment includes a 4,000-word essay which explores an area of professional practice submitted eight weeks after teaching concludes.
Entry requirements
Entry requirements
You must be a registered social worker or experienced practitioner holding an alternative professional qualification working in a social work setting when supported by an employer.
Employability
Career opportunities
This will vary according to the place of employment.
