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Level 7
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80 Credits
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0.6667 EFTS
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Course duration: 34 weeks
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Workload - Approximately 24 hours per week
The second practicum (of 60 days/480 hours) will enable you to emerge as a confident, capable social work professional.
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to
- Use professional skills in communication, engagement, assessment, intervention and evaluation to promote positive outcomes for individuals/groups/communities taking into account the individual, social and cultural differences of service users.
- Write professional reports and maintain accurate records assuring service user confidentiality and privacy and making referrals to other agencies as appropriate.
- Articulate evidence-based and ethically defensible plans to inform professional judgements and promote positive outcomes for individuals/groups/communities.
- Manage practice safely and accountably working within relevant organisational protocols and proposing ways to improve safe and accountable practice.
- Actively promote the kawa whakaruruhau (cultural safety) of service users and colleagues, apply principles of bicultural social work practice, and challenge prejudice and discrimination.
- Adhere to the SWRB code of conduct and the code of ethics of the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers.
- Make positive use of professional supervision to reflect on practice, discuss ethical issues, and develop critical awareness of own abilities and level of professional competence.
- Make plans for continuing professional development.
- Critically evaluate the social work practice theory, models and approaches used to inform own social work practice with individuals, groups or communities.
- Critically assess the policy and legislative framework underpinning practice situations and identify ways to promote socially just outcomes.
- Critically appraise research including ethical and cultural considerations.
Assessment
This course is 100% internally assessed
Computer and internet requirements
This course is delivered online, so you will access the course and do your study online, which generally includes reading and doing activities, watching videos, downloading content, and writing and submitting assessments online.
For online learning you need:
- Access to a laptop or desktop computer
- Reliable broadband internet and a data plan
Find out more about online learning
If you are unsure if your current computer or internet access will allow you to study online please contact us.