Program Overview

Social work is a challenging, rewarding and diverse profession which offers opportunities across a wide range of specialisms. This programme prepares you for the demands of the role by offering a balance of theoretical, practical and practice experience.

The programme:

• Incorporates a minimum of 200 days experience across the three years of the programme on practice learning opportunities, working with a variety of services and agencies, in order to develop their knowledge, skills and values in practice settings. These learning opportunities take place within our partnerships with Wrexham, Flintshire and Denbighshire Local Authorities.
• Features support of a focus group of individuals, ‘Outside In’, which plays a key role in ensuring students have an excellent understanding of the reality of individuals’ experiences of social work practice.In 2020 Outside In, won a Social Care Accolade for its part in educating the workforce of tomorrow, highlighting the key part this unique element of the course plays in ensuring students graduate with as much understanding as possible of the social work role.
• Teaching explores issues such as core values, underpinning principles and theories, social policy and complexities which may arise due to the circumstances of the individuals with whom professionals are working.
• *Is part of a subject area ranked first in Wales for student satisfaction and fifth in the UK for student satisfaction in the Social Work subject league tables, Complete University Guide 2023.
• *is part of a CHA3 subject group ranked 1st out of welsh universities for overall satisfaction as well as 3rd in the UK and 1st out of Welsh universities for the teaching on my course in the National Student Survey 2022 .
• *has been ranked 3rd in the UK as part of the Social Work subject league table for Teaching Quality and 1st overall in Wales, including rankings for Teaching Quality, Student experience and Graduate Prospects in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023.