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This module introduces you to the biopsychosocial, cognitive, political, economic, and medical factors which influence the health and wellbeing of individuals, diverse populations and communities. You’ll work with peers from other professions to consider how collaborative practice impacts on health and wellbeing outcomes, and helps you thrive in your own professional practice.  

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Models of care, support and empowerment 

• Social capital and cultural humility  

• Social accountability and determinants of health  

• Safeguarding practice  

• Public health agendas, inquiries and evidence-based reports  

• Building effective, trusting relationships   

• Community profiles and place-based care systems  

• Person-centred service delivery  

• Behaviour change and microaggressions 

• Diversity and inclusion 

• The effects of planetary health on wellbeing 

This module consolidates your progression to graduate-level study and professional practice, reflecting on your role as a professional who delivers safe and effective person-centred care. You’ll be supported to identify influencing factors on your professional practice – developing strategies which support you to thrive personally, professionally and academically. 

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Reflective practice and writing skills 

• Personal and professional development and identity 

• Emotional intelligence 

• Self-perception, privilege and introduction intersectionality and allyship  

• Self-management, feedback and leadership 

• Ethics in professional practice 

• Communication methods and techniques 

• Contemporary policy for professional practice 

• Teamwork and collaborating across professional boundaries 

• Personal behaviour and self-assessment techniques 

• The impact of behaviours, values, research and anti-oppressive and inclusive practice  

These mandatory Skills Days help you prepare for your Social Work practice learning experience. They’re co-facilitated by partners with lived experience and employers. 

You’ll study topics such as:  
 

• Fundamental communication skills 

• Assessment 

• Methods of intervention 

• Professionalism 

• Learning in work environments 

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This module introduces key theoretical concepts to inform social work practice with users of services across the life course. You’ll also explore approaches for social workers to develop resilience, motivation for learning, and the importance of professional behaviour in all contexts.  

You’ll study topics such as:  

• The importance of diversity in human identity and experience 

• Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, theory, evidence and knowledge, and applying these in practice 

• Theories and models about a range of social work interventions 

• Construction and application of hypotheses in social work practice 

• Professional behaviour and communication in all contexts and across all media  

• Risk, safeguarding, whistleblowing, confidentiality and information sharing 

• Reflective practice, continuing professional development and action planning 

• Placements, practice learning and the challenges they may present 

• Mutual roles and responsibilities of supervision 

• Boundaries, self-care and emotional resilience 

This module develops sound knowledge of the basic underlying concepts and principles of social work roles in society. You’ll explore the distinctive values base of the professional social worker, and how these inform working with legal rights, equalities, duties, powers and responsibilities in the scope of practice across settings. 

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Social work standards, ethics, expectations, boundaries and processes  

• The experience of oppression and anti-oppressive practice  

• Race, gender, disability, age, sexuality, sexual identity, LGBTQi+ and other equality strands  

• Anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive principles in social work practice 

• The role of the social worker in the England and Wales legal system   

• The multi-agency organisational context of social work practice  

• International and national definitions and contexts 

This module is your chance to apply your professional knowledge, skills and values in an integrated manner. You’ll work collaboratively with peers from other disciplines to assess, intervene and overcome the challenges of complex health and social care situations – supporting individuals, groups and communities.    

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Drivers for integrated and person-centred health and social care &²Ô²ú²õ±è;

• Inter-professional teamworking across multiple service interfaces  &²Ô²ú²õ±è;

• Shared ethical decision-making, collaboration and co-production 

• Assessment, treatment planning, evaluation and risk management 

• The realities of living with long-term conditions and multi-morbidities &²Ô²ú²õ±è;

• Mental capacity, best interest assessment, equality and reasonable adjustments &²Ô²ú²õ±è;

• Resilience, communication, breaking bad news, difficult conversations  &²Ô²ú²õ±è;

• Interpersonal and systemic discrimination in health and social care 

• Inclusive language and terminology including challenging microaggressions  

• Technology-enabled care and digitalisation within integrated care systems

This module consolidates your practice-based learning and situates social work in its international context by examining a range of contemporary global issues. You’ll reflect on your placement 1 experiences and identify specific areas for development for placement 2, as well as an enhanced sense of agency, 

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Global context for social work  

• Migration and its impacts  

• Global divide 

• Human trafficking 

• Female genital mutilation 

• Gender and reproductive rights 

• International drugs trade 

• Gang-related crime 

• Reflexivity  

This module introduces you to research and enquiry design and methods. You’ll be able to apply them to an area of investigation – considering factors that impact on literature appraisal – preparing you to undertake and manage an investigation as a professional practitioner. 

You’ll study topics such as:  

• What makes a good question  

• Ï㽶ÊÓƵ design, types of evidence and suitability of methods 

• Co-production – patient and public involvement 

• Inclusive perspectives of research  

• Data collection methods, strengths and weaknesses 

• Analysis techniques 

• Usefulness/impact and implications for practice 

• Ethics and governance 

• Sample of existing appraisal tools 

• Searching and critically reviewing the literature  

This module demonstrates your capability against the PCF domains (BASW 2018) and SWE Professional Standards for End of First Placement. You’ll critically reflect on your practice to take responsibility for your own continuing professional development, and to contribute to the development of others. 

You’ll apply learning and skills such as:  

• Undertaking supervised assessed practice 

• Engaging in supervision to develop safe and effective practice  

• Caseload management and making appropriate use of professional authority 

• Professional judgement and decision-making informed by law, policy, theories, and research 

• Writing for a range of professional purposes (including records, emails, reports) 

• Communication across a range of settings, roles, complexity and risk  

• Effective teamwork across, organisational roles and boundaries 

• Compassionate relationships with individuals, families and communities  

• Ethical and inclusive person-centred practice 

This module develops your specialist knowledge, consolidates your learning from placement one and prepares you for placement two. You’ll explore key legal and policy frameworks, ethical reasoning and practice-based approaches when working with children, young people, families and adults with care and support needs.  

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Social work roles as defined in the legal, policy and practice frameworks  

• Learning from case reviews and case law 

• Learning from research and translating this to evidence-based practice    

• Psychosocial theories and methods of intervention  

• Creative approaches to identifying and managing risk and need  

• Safeguarding children and adults with care and support needs  

• Personalisation and strengths-based approaches  

• Working with service users, carers and other professionals  

This module analyses, appraises and utilises your knowledge of the professional skills required for professional registration. You’ll undertake a range of skills development activities, engagement with ethical dimensions of practice, and opportunities for guided critical reflection on your personal and professional development. 

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Critical reflection on professional authority in complex situations 

• Managing potentially conflicting values and ethical dilemmas  

• Rights, diversity, social justice, equality, citizenship and beneficence 

• Working with hard-to-engage individuals, families and communities 

• Using psychosocial theories and methods to understand practice situations 

• Risk, safeguarding, suicide, self harm and multiple co-morbidities 

• Relational, systemic, trauma-informed and strength-based practice 

• Critical understanding of social justice and links to social policy  

• Messages from key stakeholders, people who use services and unpaid carers  &²Ô²ú²õ±è;

• Court skills and report writing 

This module develops your systematic understanding of leadership and education concepts in practice. You’ll critically reflect on these in the context of collaboration within health and social care practice – considering how you can effectively support people who use services, their carers and families, and communities who have complex health and care needs to thrive.  

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Differences between management, leadership and the role of the critical follower 

• Leadership theories, models and styles most relevant to health and social care  

• Self-awareness and seeing ourselves as leaders 

• Recognising our own personal impact, rank, power and privilege  

• Professional cultures, traditional hierarchies and becoming an agent of change  

• Leading psychologically safe, anti-racist and inclusive teams  

• Resilience, volatility and acknowledging the wellbeing needs of the workforce  

• Sustainable practice, quality improvement and leadership 

• Tackling inequalities in health and social care through advocacy and education 

• Technology-enabled care and digitalisation within integrated care systems 

This module demonstrates your capability against the PCF domains for practice by end of final placement (BASW 2018). You’ll undertaking supervised assessed practice of 100 days in duration. 

You’ll apply learning and skills such as:  
 

• Effectively engaging in supervision to develop safe and effective practice  

• Increased autonomy in case management and professional authority 

• Professional judgement and decision-making informed by law, policy, theories and research 

• Writing for a range of professional purposes, including records, emails and reports 

• Demonstrating appropriate communication skills across a range of settings and roles 

• Managing complexity and risk  

• Effective teamwork within and across organisational roles and boundaries 

• Compassionate relationships with individuals, families and communities  

• Ethical and inclusive person-centred practice  

• Responsibility for your continuing professional development and contributing to other people’s 

This module enables you to undertake a sustained, in-depth piece of independent learning, demonstrating a critical understanding and applying appropriate research methods within a piece of work. This work will challenge and contribute to improvements in areas of practice through the dissemination of findings to professional communities. 

You’ll apply learning and skills such as:  

• An individual independent project/dissertation 

• Creating and contributing to research and evaluation for practice 

• Application of approaches to research 

• Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, improvement and evaluation methodologies 

• Addressing inclusivity in your research process 

• Dissemination of project outcomes 

• Challenges in applying research outcomes to practice 

This module equips you with critical and reflective strategies to manage your transition from full-time study into the world of work. This will help you engage with your assessed and supported year in employment.  

You’ll study topics such as: &²Ô²ú²õ±è;

• Professionalism, critical reflection and analysis 

• Contexts, organisations and leadership  

• How to complete assessments in a planned way &²Ô²ú²õ±è;

• Learning from SCRs and SARs 

• Appreciative leadership models 

• Use of CPD structures and recording as directed by Social Work England 

• The ever-changing context of social work practice  

• Leadership and teamwork skills in multi-agency settings 

• Imaginative and creative approaches to problem solving 

• Use of evidence for best practice