2017/18 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

HECS2207 Decision Making in Practice

20 creditsClass Size: 50

Module manager: David Saltiel
Email: D.Saltiel@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

Pre-requisite qualifications

Normally 120 credits at level 1

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

Note for incoming study abroad student: This module is primarily focused on social work training in the UK and within UK law

Objectives

Analyse and evaluate the contemporary policy context of multi-agency and inter professional work
Identify and analyse aspects of professional and agency cultures that impede or facilitate interprofessional and multi-agency working
Identify and analyse skills that will assist in working successfully across agency and professional boundaries
Evaluate the skill and value base of social work as an underpinning for social workers to form partnerships in multi-agency and inter professional settings
Analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of inter-agency and inter-professional work in meeting the needs of service users and carers
Analyse and develop professional assessment decision making skills
Evaluate the nature of organisations and how to work within them.

Learning outcomes
At the end of the module students will:
1. Analytically evaluate the nature of multi-agency and inter professional working across a range of social care settings
2. Analyse the factors that have prevented effective partnership working and information sharing across agency and professional boundaries
3. Explain the nature of professionalism and professional cultures and the effect they can have on multi agency and inter professional work.
4. Identify the evidence that multi agency and inter professional work can improve outcomes for service users and carers
5. Analyse the structure of organisations that deliver social work practice.

Skills outcomes
HCPC SOP
2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.6, 2.7
3.1,3.3
4.4
5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
6.1, 6.2
8.4, 8.8
9.1, 9.3
13.1, 13.2, 13, 13.4
14.5, 14.6, 14.7

PCF
Professionalism 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.7
Values & ethics 2.1, 2.2
Diversity 3.1, 3.2
Rights etc 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Knowledge 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
Reflection & analysis 6.2, 6.4, 6.5
Intervention & skills 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.10, 7.12, 7.13
Context/Organisation 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6

Syllabus

- The nature and current practice of multi-agency and interprofessional decision making.
- Theoretical approaches and research evidence in regards to multi agency and decision working
- Exploring the evidence of past failings and identifying strategies and skills that may prevent such failings being repeated
- The role of social work in multi-agency and interprofessional working.
- The impact of multi-agency and interprofessional decision making on service users and carers.
- The challenges of interprofessional communication.
- Comparative international systems of decision making

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Group learning	10	1.00	10.00
Lecture	11	2.00	22.00
Tutorial	2	2.00	4.00
Independent online learning hours			30.00
Private study hours			134.00
Total Contact hours			36.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

Online research of relevant practice, legislation and policy guidance.
Reading to support work on placement and to complete academic tasks

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Seminars and tutorials will provide formative evidence of student progress. Study tasks will enable students to identify gaps in knowledge and to develop strategies to address them.
The summative assignments will provide evidence of students' academic knowledge and ability to apply this to case study material and to placement.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	2500 words	50.00
Essay	2500 words	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Compensation will apply

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 17/08/2017

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