Social Work BA (Hons)

This module aims to; enable students to develop an understanding of the professional social work role and its responsibilities, conflict, boundaries, ethics, and the impact on practice and delivery. Enable students to develop a range of skills to function effectively in their communication with service user and colleagues in an organisational setting. Provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate their readiness for direct practice as outlined in the PCF Readiness for Practice Capabilities.

This module aims to; consider the legal structure and framework in England and how it relates to social work. Understand how law and policy can support anti-discriminatory practice and support the rights of service users. Develop an understanding of key pieces of legislation that social workers work within, the powers and duties of the local authority, and how they are applied in the professional role. Develop an understanding of the key policies that social workers apply in their professional role.

This module aims to provide students with a wide ranging overview of human growth and development perspectives across the life course. It will enable students to understand how each individual person’s growth, behaviour and development is shaped and influenced by their family, culture, friends and environment. Students will examine and gain a greater understanding of how the range of perspectives can enable them to build and develop their professional understanding and responses in relation to social work practice with service users and carers.

This module aims to provide students with a basic underpinning knowledge of a range of sociological perspectives as a starting point to understanding how individuals, communities and the ‘state’ play their part in the functioning of UK society. It will also aim to aid students’ understanding of the ways in which sociological theory and research has contributed to political ideology and thinking in relation to social welfare, social policy and social work. It will promote a critical awareness of the impacts of social policy on society and on social work practice.

This module aims to prepare and enable students to understand the nature of social work values (choice, respect, rights, risks, self-determination) and ethics (utilitarianism, Kantian) needed for competent professional practice. It also aims to aid students’ understanding of the historical development of social work values and how these have influenced contemporary ethics and value frameworks. The module will also consider the impact of social work values on professional practice, and prepare students to be able to deal with the conflicts between personal and professional values. More importantly, this module provides the foundations for applying social work values to each subsequent module in all following years of the undergraduate degree.

Social work practice with adults is a complex activity involving a range of competing priorities. Practitioners are required to promote self-determination and autonomy whilst managing risk and protecting service users from harm. The aim of the module is to develop the students’ understanding of the different needs of adult service users and to consider the knowledge and interventions that can lead to positive outcomes. The focus of the module is to understand key current issues, complexities, and practcie with service users and carers from a diverse range of backgrounds and communities.

The aim of this module is to enable students to develop knowledge and a critical understanding of social work practice in a children and families setting and within a multi-agency context, and understanding of the social work role from provision of support services to dealing with significant harm. The module aims to enable students to understand the assessment process, to develop the ability to critically analyse information effectively, and to utilise the data to inform intervention, planning and review.

This module aims to enable students to; understand the importance of applying social work theories to social work practice, understand how different theories and methods have evolved over time in changing contexts, understand broad paradigms and how they relate to practice, enabling students to understand a variety of methods and apply them to day-to-day practice.

This module aims to; enable students to gain an understanding and critical awareness of issues impacting on the social work role within a range of organisational and professional contexts, prepare students for inter-professional working and inter-agency collaboration particularly in relation to safeguarding issues, develop students’ collaborative skills, knowledge and values that are relevant to good social work practice within an inter-professional and inter-agency context.

This module aims to; enable the student to demonstrate capacity to work with people and in situations where there may not be simple clear-cut solutions, enable the student with support from supervision to apply the theoretical knowledge, skills and values from previous module learning and teaching to their practice, provide an opportunity for the student to experience the responsibility of meeting service users’ and carers’ needs and to demonstrate social work values and anti-oppressive practice, enable students to achieve the PCF End of First Placement Level Capabilities.

This module aims to prepare final year, pre-qualifying students to further develop their capacity to practise social work critically and reflectively. Throughout the module three major aspects – social work values for practice, theories and approaches to practice, and how to do critical reflective practice – will be outlined. The module aims to build upon and synthesise knowledge from previous modules so as to consolidate students’ knowledge and understanding of the themes, ethical dilemmas, issues and lasting debates in contemporary social work practice located within its different practice settings. Students will develop their understanding of and ability to use their professional judgement and make effective decisions in practice.

SW6016

This module aims to: enable students to understand social science research traditions and methodologies. To encourage critical assessment of research methodologies and the ideas and values that underpin them with reference to anti-discriminatory practice. To enable students to understand the relationship between research and social work practice.

SW6018

This module aims to; enable the student to demonstrate capacity to undertake complex work involving statutory / legal interventions. This module also enables student to achieve the PCF Qualifying Social Worker Level Capabilities and evidence SWE professional standards and critically explore debates and issues of resilience in Social Work.