Social Work (Degree Apprenticeship) BA (Hons)

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 practice 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.

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.

This module aims to; enable the student to demonstrate ability to work directly with service users/carers in complex situations; enable the student to demonstrate analytical skills when working with complex information; enable the student's transition into the social work profession. 

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.