B.A. Social Work (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Oxford

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Oxford

Our aim is for you to become a competent, resourceful and confident practitioner, able to work autonomously in multiprofessional environments.Oxford Brookes' University BA (Hons) in Social Work has a consistent track record of delivering high quality social work education.

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Oxford (Oxfordshire)
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Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane, OX3 0BP

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Subjects

  • Social Work
  • IT Development
  • Skills and Training
  • Social Policy
  • IT for adults
  • Social Worker
  • Mental Health
  • Growth and Development
  • University

Course programme

Course Content Year 1 is designed to provide a common academic and skills foundation for all social work practice. Core module content includes:
  • Human Growth and Development
  • Law and Social Policy
  • Skills Development and Professional Communications
  • Professional Practice and Partnership Working
  • Safeguarding Vulnerable People.

In Year 2 you will study specialist modules on social work with children and families, adults and mental health, and you will also take modules on research methods and interprofessional practice.

In Year 3 you will take modules in professional development and write a dissertation on a topic related to social work.

In both Years 2 and 3, you will spend time on placement (170 days in total), where you will work alongside your own practice educator while you are introduced to social care and social work roles.Years 2 and 3
  • Human Growth and Development 1: The module aims to introduce the concept of using evidence in professional practice, to develop skills of literature searching and evaluation, and to discuss inclusion, diversity, beliefs and attitudes, social and environmental factors in relation to team working in professional practice.
  • Human Growth and Development 2: This module aims to give an understanding of some of the key personality theories and some additional factors, including childhood attachment, which shape and influence personality and behaviour across the lifespan.
  • Legal Aspects of Social Care: This module provides an overview of the legal context of social care and social work practice in England and Wales. It also explores the relationship between the legal and policy framework, service provision and empowerment.
  • Social Policy: Social Policy is the study of social welfare, and its relationship to politics and society. It identifies the factors that impact on welfare, and the role of the state in mediating, promoting or reducing them.
  • Skills Development and Professional Communication: The module focuses on the assessment of suitability to work with a vulnerable population with the title of student social worker.It incorporates a twenty day skill development pathway to prepare for starting social work practice.
  • Safeguarding Vulnerable People: This introduces a foundation level understanding of safeguarding vulnerable children and adults, enabling students begin to consider the impact of abuse and neglect on people's lives, and to consider an appropriate professional response.
  • Partnerships 1: Using Evidence in Professional Practice: The module aims to introduce the concept of using evidence in professional practice to develop skills of literature searching and evaluation; and to discuss inclusion diversity, beliefs and attitudes, social and environmental factors in relation to team working in professional practice.
  • Social Work with Adults: This informs and supports students in preparation for practice with the most vulnerable adults in society. It focuses on social work practice from statutory and independent sector perspectives.
  • Social Work with Children and Young People: This helps students explore and evaluate children's rights and needs and the role of the state when these are not met. The law, theories of child development and evidence informed practice and research are used to explore the role of the social worker in relation to children, young people and their families.
  • Mental Health for Social Workers: Social Workers frequently interface with individuals and families challenged by Mental Health Disorders. This module will introduce students to the models, theories, legislation, research and practice, which provide the context for current mental health services.
  • Support to Social Work: This module seeks to develop students' introductory level knowledge and skill base, following successful completion of the first year of the programme, in order to provide an applied context to social work theories, methods and models.
  • Social Work Practice 1: This is a 70-day placement, by the end of which, students are able to demonstrate a developing understanding of the HCPC Standards of Proficiency for Social Work (SOPS), and how they are able to evidence meeting them, together with the Professional Capability Framework (PCF) requirements, at the ‘End of First Placement’ level. The placement will be in a private, voluntary or independent sector setting. The module includes five preparation/skill development days which will occur before and during the placement.
  • Partnerships 2: Developing Effective Working Practice :This is an integrated and interdisciplinary analysis of interprofessional working and effective teamwork within health and social care. It evaluates how different professional groups develop effective working practices when working in partnership, whilst managing issues of diversity and the limitations of social policy and legislation on their professional working environment.
  • Research Methods and Analysis: Students have the opportunity to explore the research process, methods, data analysis and the ethical considerations associated with health and social care research. It focuses on issues, techniques and skills for data collection and analysis in quantitative, qualitative or mixed mode approaches to research.
  • Social Work Practice 2: This is a 100-day placement in a social welfare or care setting, undertaking statutory social work tasks. on completion students are able to demonstrate that they are achieving an understanding of the HCPC Standards of Proficiency for Social Work (SOPS), and how they are able to evidence meeting them, together with the Professional Capability Framework (PCF) requirements, at the ‘Qualifying Social Worker’ level.
  • Practice Learning Interventions: Students critically examine a piece of work undertaken as part of practice learning. They are required to make links between learning in University based modules and practice in placement.
  • Professional Consolidation: Students are given the opportunity to prepare for employment as a newly qualified social worker. They analyse and engage with key current debates for the social work profession in the UK, and in an international context, and locate them within a philosophical and ethical framework.
  • Dissertation in Social Work: The dissertation draws together and enhances the ability to utilise the knowledge, understanding and skills developed across the programme in a substantial piece of investigative, literature based research.
  • Partnerships 3: Managing Collaboration: This module builds on Partnerships 2: Developing Effective Working Practices. The module is an integrated and interdisciplinary study of the evidence-base to working in partnership within diverse teams/agencies and across professional and organisational boundaries.

B.A. Social Work (Hons)

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