Programme/Approved Electives for 2021/22
None
Available as a Free Standing Elective
No
The module focuses on the development of core skills required to practice effectively as a social worker. Skills acquisition is developed via experiential and practical workshops, class room sessions while building and contributing to a portfolio. Students will also undertake 3 days shadowing a social worker in a placement setting.The module takes students to the `readiness for practiceż PCF threshold and is a mandatory element of their curriculum prior to starting a formal practice learning opportunity. This module meets the requirements set by the professional and regulatory bodies.
Aims
Each student is required to undertake 16 hours of skills workshops. These comprise:Introductions/Cold calling (2 hours); Recording information (2 hours); Interviewing (2 hours); Counselling skills (2 hours); Assessment (4 hours); Planning interventions (4 hours)
Talis Aspire Reading ListAny reading lists will be provided by the start of the course.http://lists.lib.keele.ac.uk/modules/swk-10005/lists
Intended Learning Outcomes
demonstrate core communication and skills for social work and the capacity to develop them in order to build compassionate and effective relationships: 1,2,3demonstrate awareness of a range of frameworks to assess and plan intervention: 1,2,3understand the role of reflective practice and demonstrate basic skills of reflection: 1,2,3demonstrate awareness of use of self: 1,2,3demonstrate an understanding of how to prepare for and undertake an interview with a service user: 1,2,3demonstrate initial awareness of risk and safeguarding: 1,2,3
51 hours PPD (personal and professional development) lectures and seminars; skills workshops and skills labs. 125 hours directed study and portfolio development.24 hours active learning about professional practice, of which 12 hours are media-based and 12 hours are in workshops facilitated by professional practitioners.
Description of Module Assessment
1: Attendance Only weighted 0%Active learning about professional practiceThe students will be required to actively view 9 hours of documentaries about diverse areas of social work practice, spending 3 hours reflecting and noting their responses to questions set. They must then actively participate in sessions facilitated by social work practitioners experienced in these diverse area to discuss their social work practice. To pass the module, students must be signed off by the social work practitioners for all the sessions. This assessment element in not weighted and is marked as PASS/FAIL. Students cannot pass this module without successful completion of this element.
2: Portfolio weighted 50%PortfolioOne x 2000 word portfolio. The portfolio provides students with the framework for an ongoing reflective account which serves two purposes:
1. To enable students to start their journeys of continuous professional development right at the start of their careers by reflecting incrementally upon their learning experiences and their relevance to practice. This will form a progressive account which will be marked at the end of the module.
2. To provide students with information which will help them to structure their final readiness to practise assessment (the presentation).
3: Presentation weighted 50%PresentationAs part of their readiness for practice assessment, students will be required to undertake a 20 minute presentation mapping their learning against the Professional Capabilities Framework (BASW 2016).
(Please note that all assessments must be passed to pass the module).