BA Social Work(with registration)

Year 1

(Award available for year: Certificate of Higher Educ)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the first level students should have provided evidence of being able to:
Progression requirements to complete level one.

1. Professionalism: Students, should be able to;
Describe the role of the social worker
Describe the mutual roles and responsibilities in supervision
Describe the importance of professional behaviour
Describe the importance of personal and professional boundaries
Demonstrate ability to learn, using a range of approaches
Describe the importance of emotional resilience in social work

2. Values and Ethics: Students should be able to;
Understand the profession’s ethical principles and their relevance to practice
Demonstrate awareness of own personal values and how these can impact on practice.

3. Diversity: Students should be able to;
Recognise the importance of diversity in human identity and experience, and the application of anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive principles in social work practice

4. Rights, Justice and Economic Wellbeing: Students, should be able to;
Understand the principles of rights, justice and economic wellbeing, and their significance for social work practice

5. Knowledge: Students should be able to;
Demonstrate an initial understanding of the application of research, theory and knowledge from sociology, social policy, psychology, health and human growth and development to social work
Demonstrate an initial understanding of the legal and policy frameworks and guidance that inform and mandate social work practice
Demonstrate an initial understanding of the range of theories and models for social work intervention

6. Critical reflection and Analysis: Students should be able to;
Understand the role of reflective practice and demonstrate basic skills of reflection
Understand the need to construct hypotheses in social work practice
Recognise and describe why evidence is important in social work practice

7. Intervention and Skills: Students should be able to;
Demonstrate core communication skills and the capacity to develop them
Demonstrate the ability to engage with people in order to build compassionate and effective relationships
Demonstrate awareness of a range of frameworks to assess and plan intervention
Demonstrate basic ability to produce written documents relevant for practice
Demonstrate initial awareness of risk and safeguarding

8. Contexts and organisations: Students should be able to;
Demonstrate awareness of the impact of organisational context on social work practice

9. Professional Leadership: Students should be able to;
Demonstrate awareness of the importance of professional leadership in social work

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- Qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to the subject area(s) studied;
- Skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
- Demonstrating the knowledge and application of standard concepts, information and techniques relevant to the discipline;
- Work experience
- Demonstrating emerging abilities, skills and competencies;

Progression from Level 1 to Level 2
Students must successfully complete a minimum of 100 credits at Level 1 to progress to Level 2. Students will be permitted to progress with 100 credits where the 20 credit deficit relates to Discovery modules. All Social Work specific modules must be passed for progression.

Students may be permitted to proceed with 90 credits, but must achieve the outstanding credits in order to complete progression by the end of December in their second year. Students must successfully complete (pass) HECS 1117 – Professional Practice 1 (which includes the Readiness for Direct Practice) before commencing Level 2 studies.