Social Work BA (Hons) Integrated Degree Apprenticeship

30 credits

This is the first module on the programme. It is designed to prepare apprentices for the transition into the social work apprenticeship degree by aiding the development of their professional identities. Previous learning experiences will be re-contextualised to demonstrate how your knowledge, skills and behaviours apply within social workers’ responsibility and accountability, as required by the professional regulator and the relevant standards.

This module will support apprentices to develop a repertoire of professional responses that will be developed in practice. This module will support apprentices to develop a repertoire of professional responses that will be developed in practice and will introduce you to Future Skills through engagement with Navigate content.

The focus is on developing a deeper understanding of the apprentice’s professional identities. As apprentices, you will engage in activities that take them beyond knowledge of the social worker role, to an understanding of what it means to personally and professionally enter into the social work profession, along with the natural shifts in power and inherent tensions in any new role. Active reflection on values, attitudes, expectations and beliefs will guide apprentices to develop their ‘professional selves’.

This module adopts United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10 (Reduced Inequalities).

30 credits

This module is designed to prepare apprentices for the transition into the social work apprenticeship degree by aiding the development of their professional identities, human growth and human rights. Previous learning experiences will be re-contextualised to demonstrate how their knowledge, skills and behaviours apply within social workers' responsibility and accountability, as required by the professional regulator and the relevant standards. 

This module will support apprentices to develop a repertoire of professional responses that will be developed in practice. 

The focus is on developing a deeper understanding of the apprentice's professional identities. Apprentices will engage in activities that take them beyond knowledge of the social worker role, to an understanding of what it means to personally and professionally enter into the social work profession, along with the natural shifts in power and inherent tensions in any new role. Active reflection on values, attitudes, expectations and beliefs will guide apprentices to develop their ‘professional selves'.

30 credits

To start developing legal literacy, apprentices will be guided to interpret information within the legislative frameworks and assess the extent to which given sets of facts meet certain legal criteria.

You will have the opportunity to learn about the different policies that influence social work practice, the laws that determine what practitioners are able and are required to do as social workers and the legal impact of practice on the rights of individuals and families.

You will build upon prior learning using the module learning outcomes to demonstrate your preparation for your new role as a social work apprentice. Previous learning experiences will be re-contextualised to demonstrate how your knowledge, skills and behaviours apply within social workers’ responsibility and accountability, as required by the professional regulator and the relevant standards.

30 credits

This is the first of three modules on this course that enable apprentices to demonstrate practice skills against the nine domains of the Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF) and the Integrated Degree Apprenticeship Standards for Social Workers.

Apprentices will build upon prior learning using the module learning outcomes to demonstrate their preparation for their new role as an apprentice social worker. Previous learning experiences will be re-contextualised to demonstrate how their knowledge, skills and behaviours apply within social workers' responsibility and accountability, as required by the professional regulator and the relevant standards.

In this on-the-job learning module, apprentices will be supported by a mentor, sub-regional assessor (SRA), and their line manager and/or mentor to work through agreed learning objectives mapped against the appropriate levels of the PCF and apprenticeship standards. People with lived experience will be involved throughout.

30 credits

Apprentices will use the module learning outcomes to demonstrate their preparation for their role as a social work apprentice. Previous learning experiences will be re-contextualised to demonstrate how their knowledge, skills and behaviours apply within social workers' responsibility and accountability, as required by the professional regulator and the relevant standards.

This module builds on the knowledge apprentices gained in SWAD 4.2 (Development across the lifespan) Drawing on apprentices current practice, this module enables apprentices to further develop their ability to evaluate how social work models, research, and theories inform planning, assessment, and interventions. Drawing on the narrative accounts of those with lived experiences of social work, apprentices will be supported to increase their reflective awareness of how assumptions and biases promote or hinder outcomes. Apprentices will begin to build confidence and ability to understand complexity and risk while developing professional decision-making skills.

30 credits

This is the second of three modules on this course that enable apprentices to demonstrate practice skills against the nine domains of the Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF) and the Integrated Degree Apprenticeship Standards for Social Workers. Apprentices will build upon prior learning using the module learning outcomes to demonstrate their preparation for their role as an apprentice social worker. Previous learning experiences will be re-contextualised to demonstrate how their knowledge, skills and behaviours apply within social workers' responsibility and accountability, as required by the professional regulator and the relevant standards.

Students will develop their legal literacy and the use of professional authority and make judgements within legal and ethical frameworks. All content is considered from national and international perspectives to ensure that apprentices are able to connect global forces that inform structural, legal and professional parameters. Previous learning experiences will be re-contextualised to demonstrate how their knowledge, skills and behaviours apply within social workers' responsibility and accountability, as required by the professional regulator and the relevant standards.

30 credits

This module builds on the Transitions module in Year 1 and further develops apprentices' professional identity. Apprentices will develop behavioural skills, values and knowledge to work collaboratively within organisational systems as well as inter-professionally, while remaining accountable to their own organisations with a clear sense of social work identity. Apprentices will gain an understanding of the thread between organisational systems, research informed practice and, outcomes for people living with the experience of social work. Previous learning experiences will be re-contextualised to demonstrate how their knowledge, skills and behaviours apply within social workers' responsibility and accountability, as required by the professional regulator and the relevant standards.

30 credits

This module builds on apprentices learning about law, policy and ethics from Level 4 and translates earlier learning into a rights and justice based social work context. This will develop apprentices' legal literacy and the use of professional authority and make judgements within legal and ethical frameworks. All content is considered from national and international perspectives to ensure that apprentices are able to connect global forces that inform structural, legal and professional parameters. Previous learning experiences will be re-contextualised to demonstrate how their knowledge, skills and behaviours apply within social workers' responsibility and accountability, as required by the professional regulator and the relevant standards.

You will learn about inter-professional work and develop a degree of practice agility to work effectively within different settings. You will learn to evaluate how social work models, theories and research inform planning, assessment, and interventions; and further develop knowledge on social work in action, developing your earlier legal learning and applying into a rights and justice based social work context. 

You will also take a work-based module where you will undertake a contrasting work based learning experience mapped against the second placement level requirements of the social work professional capability framework (PCF).

30 credits

This final year consolidation project enables apprentices to synthesise and apply the knowledge and skills that they have acquired throughout the apprenticeship programme by undertaking an in-depth analysis of a case study derived from work-based learning. This should be a case study that raises issues that related to a developing specialist area or interest to the apprentice. Previous learning experiences will be re-contextualised to demonstrate how their knowledge, skills and behaviours apply within social workers' responsibility and accountability, as required by the professional regulator and the relevant standards. This module is also designed to help apprentices prepare for the end point assessment by supporting the development of skills that will enable them to approach the end point assessment equipped with the necessary ability to apply the knowledge and skills they have acquired throughout the apprenticeship.

60 credits

This is the third of three modules on this course that enable apprentices to demonstrate practice skills against the nine domains of the Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF) and the Integrated Degree Apprenticeship Standards for Social Workers. Apprentices will build upon prior learning using the module learning outcomes to demonstrate their preparation for their role as a pre-qualifying apprentice social worker. Previous learning experiences will be re-contextualised to demonstrate how their knowledge, skills and behaviours apply within social workers' responsibility and accountability, as required by the professional regulator and the relevant standards.

30 credits

This final year module allows you to investigate and design a product of potential benefit to children, young people, or adults. You will firstly identify an area of interest linked to a current issue, concern, gap, or dilemma which is linked to your practice. You will then use the knowledge, skills, and experience that you have acquired throughout the course, and your professional experience, to investigate and identify what could helpfully address the issue identified. You will be expected to demonstrate person-focused practice, creativity, and problem-solving ability in developing an idea which will be of practical use in working with people. This might include a direct work tool(s), creation of a VLOG or other form of representation, that identifies and attends to the issues/ dilemma and justifies the approach taken.