(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)
Competence Standards
1. Effectively demonstrate working, adapting to a range of different environments demonstrating a range of skills and interventions.
2. Recognise principles of social justice, inclusion, and equality. Advocate for the rights, strengths, and wellbeing of individuals, families, and communities.
3. Effectively demonstrate knowledge, skills and behaviours for safe and effective practice as required by Social Work England.
4. Effectively demonstrate self-management, adaptability and response to different situations using insight, reflection and feedback.
5. Develop and apply relevant knowledge from social work practice and research, social sciences, law, other professional and relevant fields, and from the experience of people who use services.
6. Apply critical reflection and analysis to inform and provide a rationale for professional decision-making.
7. Effectively use judgement, knowledge and authority to intervene with individuals, families and communities to promote independence, provide support and prevent harm.
8. Operate effectively within and contribute to the development of organisations and services, including multi-agency and inter-professional settings.
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- The transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment related to the area(s) studied;
- The exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;
- The deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations;
- The communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences;
- The ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature;
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 of the discipline;
- Work that draws on a wide variety of material;
- The ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- Evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the discipline;
- Work that is critically reflective.
Requirements for Award
For a student to be awarded the degree of BA (Hons) Social Work a total of 360 credits must be studied and a minimum of 340 successfully completed, as follows:
Level 1 - a minimum of 100 credits, which must include all Social Work specific modules;
Level 2 - 120 credits
Level 3 - 120 credits.
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