Advanced Adult Social Work PGC - Coventry Univer

Tuition Fee

Per year

Start Date

Not Available

Medium of studying

On campus

Duration

24 months

Program Facts

About Program

About University

Admission Requirements

Program Facts

Program Details

Degree

Diploma

Major

Social Work

Discipline

Humanities

Minor

Community Organization and Advocacy

Education type

On campus

Timing

Full time

Course Language

English

Intakes

Program start date	Application deadline
2023-09-01	-

About Program

Program Overview

Course overview

This course aims to enable you as a social worker to develop your career from early social work practice through to teaching, mentoring, and assessing others.

This Postgraduate Certificate course in Advanced Adult Social Work is designed for social workers who have completed their social work pre-registration training, are in employment, and wish to enhance their career prospects via gaining a postgraduate level qualification.

Global ready

An international outlook, with global opportunities

Teaching excellence

Taught by lecturers who are experts in their field

Employability

Career ready graduates, with the skills to succeed

Why you should study this course

This course aims to develop your capacity to evaluate, review and improve approaches and systems, and apply learning effectively at an appropriate level using relevant methodologies, ensuring continuous improvement.

This course can be delivered on a part-time basis and can be taken over a one-year or two-year period to meet the needs of social workers who wish to study alongside their professional practice as part of their continuing professional development.

This course aims to provide opportunities to develop your critical understanding of global and national issues and insights of social work practice.

This course aims to give you the opportunity to become an expert practitioner, an agent of change and be ‘leadership ready’.

Opportunities may also be available within the faculty to progress your studies beyond the Postgraduate Certificate to a full master’s degree (subject to successfully completing the PG Cert, an application to a master’s course and additional fees).

Program Outline

Year one

The curriculum for the course aims to allow you to meet the Practice Educator Professional Standards (PEPS) stage 1 requirements where you should begin to form some knowledge of the role of teaching and mentoring others as you develop your social work career in more senior positions. An additional module on this qualification route - “Advanced Critical Practice: Adult Social Work“ will focus on enhancing your knowledge in adult social work practice. All modules are mandatory.

Modules

The Developing Practitioner in Social Work - 20 credits

This module aims to develop your professional social work practice. You will engage with your employers in a year of assessed and supported learning while applying knowledge, skills and theory to your own practice. This reflective practice will be encapsulated within the assessment, which requires you to submit a nationally recognised portfolio that critically assesses your own practice.

Mentoring, Supervision and Assessment in Practice Part 1 and 2 (PEPS Stage 1) (10 credits each)

This module forms two parts that aim to prepare you to act as enablers of others’ learning by developing knowledge of theories, concepts and processes of practice education in the context of an explicit value base. You will develop knowledge and skills in relation to:

Organising opportunities for the demonstration of assessed competence/capability in practice

Enabling learning and professional development in practice

Managing the assessment of learners in practice

Mentoring and supporting learners and colleagues in contemporary care settings

Compulsory

Advanced Critical Practice: Adult Social Work - 20 credits

This module aims to facilitate and support the continuing professional development of Registered Social Workers. The module enables you to further extend and deepen your knowledge and skills in respect of essential aspects of contemporary practice in Social Work. The content of the module draws on the “Social Worker” career level statements of the Professional Capabilities Framework for Social Workers and the Knowledge and Skills Statements for Social Workers in Adult Services.