BA Social Work(with registration)

Year 2

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

This is not a professional qualification and does not allow the holder to apply for registration.

On completion of the Second Level students should have provided evidence of being able to:

1. Professionalism: Students should be able to;
Recognise the role of the professional social worker in a range of contexts
Recognise the important role of supervision, and make an active contribution
Demonstrate professionalism in terms of presentation, demeanour, reliability, honesty and respectfulness
With guidance take responsibility for managing your time and workload effectively
Be able to show awareness of personal and professional boundaries
With guidance recognise your limitations, and how to seek advice
Recognise and act on own learning needs in response to practice experience
Show awareness of own safety, health, well-being and emotional resilience and seek advice as necessary
Identify concerns about practice and procedures and how they can be questioned.

2. Values and Ethics: Students should be able to;
Recognise the role of the professional social worker in a range of contexts
Recognise the important role of supervision, and make an active contribution
Demonstrate professionalism in terms of presentation, demeanour, reliability, honesty and respectfulness
With guidance take responsibility for managing your time and workload effectively
Be able to show awareness of personal and professional boundaries
With guidance recognise your limitations, and how to seek advice
Recognise and act on own learning needs in response to practice experience
Show awareness of own safety, health, well-being and emotional resilience and seek advice as necessary
Identify concerns about practice and procedures and how they can be questioned.

3. Diversity: Students should be able to;
Understand how an individual's identity is informed by factors such as culture, economic status, family composition, life experiences and characteristics, and take account of these to understand their experiences
With reference to current legislative requirements, recognise personal and organisational discrimination and oppression, and identify ways in which they might be challenged
Recognise and, with support, manage the impact on people of the power invested in your role.

4. Rights, Justice and Economic Wellbeing: Students should be able to;
Understand and, with support, apply in practice the principles of social justice, inclusion and equality
Understand how legislation and guidance can advance or constrain people's rights
Work within the principles of human and civil rights and equalities legislation
Recognise the impact of poverty and social exclusion and promote enhanced economic status through access to education, work, housing, health services and welfare benefits
Recognise the value of independent advocacy.

5. Knowledge: Students should be able to;
With guidance apply research, theory and knowledge from sociology, social policy, psychology, health and human growth and development to social work practice
Understand the legal and policy frameworks and guidance that inform and mandate social work practice, relevant to placement setting
Understand forms of harm, their impact on people, and the implications for practice
Apply knowledge from a range of theories and models for social work intervention with individuals, families, groups and communities, and the methods derived from them
Value and take account of the expertise of service users and carers and professionals.

6. Critical reflection and Analysis: Students should be able to;
Recognise the importance of applying imagination, creativity and curiosity to practice
Inform decision-making through the identification and gathering of information from more than one source and, with support, question its reliability and validity
With guidance use reflection and analysis in practice
With guidance understand how to evaluate and review hypotheses in response to information available at the time and apply in practice wi

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;
- Decision making in the academic and practice context of analysis

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 ability to apply a broad range of aspects/competencies of the discipline/profession to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;
- Work that is often analytic in nature but drawing on a wide variety of material;
- Demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to the discipline;
- The ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion.

Progression from Level 2 to Level 3:
Students must successfully complete 120 credits at Level 2 to progress to Level 3. Students may be permitted to proceed with 100 credits, but must achieve the outstanding credits in order to complete progression by the end of December in their third year. Students must successfully complete (pass) HECS 2213 - Professional Practice 2 before commencing Level 3 studies.