Specialist Social Work (Adults) (Children and Families)

Description

This programme will develop your in-depth knowledge and understanding of a specialist area of social work, and will help you to apply this knowledge in practice.
The programme follows two pathways:

• Adults

• Children and Families

It covers all the units of the National Occupational Standards for Social Work in direct work with users of social care services and carers. It draws on knowledge and understanding of service users’ and carers’ issues to actively contribute to strategies and practice which promote service users’ and carers’ rights and participation, in line with the goals of choice, independence and empowerment.

Aims

You will learn to think critically about your own practice in the context of the General Social Care Council codes, including the embedded values and national and international codes of professional ethics and the principles of diversity, equality and social inclusion. This is related to a wide range of situations, including those associated with inter-agency and inter-professional work.

Using theories, models and relevant up-to-date research, you will learn to manage your own work effectively and demonstrate a capacity to plan for, and respond to, change in organisational, inter-organisational and team contexts.

Detailed Course Facts

Application deadline January 15 Tuition fee

• GBP 520 Module (EEA)
• GBP 520 Module (Non-EEA)

£520 per 15 credit module.

Start date September 2015 Credits (ECTS) 120 ECTS
Duration full-time 24 months Languages Take an IELTS test

• English

Delivery mode On Campus Educational variant Part-time Intensity Flexible

Course Content

Core Modules

Adults Pathway

• Critical Perspectives on Assessment and Direct Work with Adults (15 credits)

• Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults, Critical Decisions in Work with Adults: Law, Policy and Practice (15 credits)

• Working Together to Promote Independence, Well Being and Choice: Critical Perspectives on Multi-agency Working (15 credits)

• Assessment of Specialist Practice (15 credits)

• Enabling The Learning and Assessment of Others

• Research Project (30 credits)

Children and Families

• Critical Perspectives on Direct Work with Vulnerable Children, Young People and Families (15 credits)

• Safeguarding Children, Critical Decisions in Child Care: Law, Policy and Practice (15 credits)

• Working Together to Safeguard Children: Critical Perspectives in Multi-agency working (15 credits)

• Assessment of Specialist Practice (15 credits)

• Enabling The Learning and Assessment of Others (15 credits)

• Research Project (30 credits)

A total of 90 credits are required for the award of the Graduate Certificate in Specialist Social Work.
A total of 120 credits are required for the award of the BA in Specialist Social Work.

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 7

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Requirements

Recognised Social Work qualification (CSS, CQSW or DipSW) with a minimum of 240 credits or equivalent.

Current employment in direct practice as a social worker and registration with the General Social Care Council.

Candidates must provide satisfactory evidence that they are: suitable for post-qualification education; able to work directly with service users including those from different backgrounds, of different ages, and with different needs; likely to benefit from the programme; and capable of meeting the assessment requirements.

All candidates must be nominated and supported by their employing agency, which will undertake to provide support and appropriate learning opportunities.

Applicants with other qualifications and experience will be considered on an individual basis. APL (Accreditation of Prior learning) will be applied to credits gained on social work qualification courses, and considered on an individual basis for those who have already completed parts of the previous Post Qualifying Award in Social Work. The University will apply a maximum to the number of credits for which APL will be granted. Successful applicants will not be permitted to register for the BA programme until they have gained the credits for the appropriate Consolidation module as Associate students or have satisfied APL requirements for this module.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

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• Access Bursary

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• Alumni Bursary

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