Social Work MSc

Compulsory

• PN5604 - Applied Research for Health and Social Care
  To develop the student’s ability to critically understand and conceptualise the process of research and improvement in health and social justice, recognising the impact of research and health improvement, and refinement of critical appraisal and project planning skills.
• SW5632 Year 1 Practice Placement

  During the first placement students will acquire professional knowledge, understanding and related practice skills.

• SW5627 Becoming a Social Worker

  This module prepares students to understand the profession’s ethical principles and recognise the impact of own values in professional practice. Thus, the ability to demonstrate basic skills in communication and to engage with people to develop effective relationships will be acquired to aid an initial understanding of a range of theories and models for social work intervention.

• SW5630 Legislation for Social Justice

  This module gives students an understanding of the legal framework in England for social work and social welfare. Students will learn about the broad range of remedies available to individual service users and carers, groups and communities. Students will learn ethical responsibilities and dilemmas in social work practice.

• SW5628 Human Behaviour Across the Lifespan

  This module outline aims to prepare the students in understanding the key theoretical and empirical underpinnings of human development. Applying an understanding of human growth and development to social work practice. Also, aims prepares students to undertake critical observation of children and/or others.

• SW5626 Practicing Social Work

  This module is the module that teaches and assesses students in Readiness for Direct Practice. It enables students to develop an understanding of the role of the social worker through three days of shadowing. Students will learn to demonstrate a readiness for practice with social work clients.

• SW5629 Social Justice - Theory, Policy and Practice

  This module aims to apply sociological concepts towards a critical understanding of society and contemporary social problems. Understanding the origins, character, and politics of the contemporary social welfare system, and critically engage in competing theoretical discourses, which explain structural and institutional inequalities in relation to gender, disability and employment. Students will also understand the policy-making process and the links between social problems, social policy and social work practice.

• SW5631 Concepts and Perspectives Underpinning Social Work

  Equipping students to apply contemporary theoretical perspectives in social work to interpret social problems from both the micro-level of intra-personal and macro-level. Leading students to critically analyse the intersection between theoretical orientations, social work values, and service users. This module also draws a critical understanding of the development, meaning and interpretation of theory within social work.

Compulsory

• SW5635 - The Dissertation
  This project is designed to conduct an original piece of research in an area of professional relevance and to integrate conceptual and theoretical issues within social work and social care. The topic of research may include a quantitative project focusing on the measurement and analysis of data, a qualitative project focusing on professional (clinical) practice, or a systematic review of the evidence relevant to a question from within the discipline.
• SW5637 Practice Placement 2

  By the end of the last placement students should have acquired and demonstrated a range of skills related to the Social Work England standards and the Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF).

• SW5633 Advanced Practice Skills

  This module teaches students how to respond to crises and complex issues in practice. The module uses role play scenarios and critical thinking exercises to present students with a range of scenarios that can occur in real life for students to solve as if they were a qualified social worker. Through this learning through role play students learn to identify and manage risk and apply their knowledge and skills to practice situations in a safe environment in which mistakes and good practice can be identified and learnt from. This provides learning that will prepare students to the complexity and crisis they will work with after qualification.

• SW5636 Contemporary and International Perspectives

  This module takes student through varying and different perspectives from across the globe. This is to prepare students both for working in other countries, cultures and epochs and to prepare students for the diversity of perspectives and approaches to social work and social issues that they will encounter in the UK. This module provides student with a grounding in how social work is a vibrant and varied profession that repondes to the cultural and sociaetal contexts of the people we work with

• SW5634 Professional Practice

  This module which runs across the whole of year two links closely with student experiences of placement in year 2. It provides policy, legal and best practice models and discussion that can be taken into the practice placement and applied. It also provides in depth learning about the UK social work system and how different aspects of the profession work and interact.

Optional