Programme summary for Graduate Certificate Consolidating Social Work Practice and Enabling Others

About the programme

At UEL we recognise that social workers embarking on their post qualifying education benefit from plenty of contact time both with each other and with their tutors/mentors. Our modules are designed to offer structured learning and teaching experiences for the full 12 weeks of the semester. Students learn how to reflect on their professional practice within the specialist client setting in which they are located and to develop their supervisory skills and contribute to the learning of others whilst sharing their own experience. This is alongside a detailed reading seminar in which the key theoretical approaches for social work supervision are critically considered.

Programme structure

This programme consists of the two core modules: Consolidating Social Work Practice and Enabling Others. It is intended that the modules are both taught on the same day of the week. This will allow students to attend through day release. The certificate can be taken either as a stand alone certificate or as preparation for a full award in Post Qualifying Specialist Social Work. Students may wish to transfer to the Graduate Diploma Post Qualifying Specialist Social Work or the BA (Hons) Post Qualifying Specialist Social Work. This is available in Semester A 2008/9, subject to validation. Holders of these specialist social work awards are then eligible to be considered for entry onto a range of 5 separate UEL/Tavistock PQ award programmes. These are available at Post Graduate/Higher Specialist or MA/Advanced Award levels.

Career opportunities

This programme sets you on the path to achieve academic and professional awards that build on your initial qualification and enhance the standard of your practice.

Support

You will have a named tutor to support you in your learning and career planning. You will be taught by qualified social workers with considerable experience of teaching and mentoring on PQ courses. As a UEL student, you will have access to all of the available student resources including sophisticated IT services, a virtual learning environment and extensive and specialist library provision in a state of the art library setting. This programme has the endorsement of the North East London Learning Resource Network and London-wide Skills for Care Regional Planning Group.

Admission

For social workers who want to transfer to the Post Qualifying Specialist Social Work programmes and obtain a full PQ specialist social work award, applicants need to have an initial qualification in social work. This can be the social work degree at undergraduate or Masters level or the DipSW or CQSW or a General Social Care Council recognised alternative. For other applicants, a relevant honours degree or equivalent. For both categories, the applicant needs to be working in a social work or other personal services setting.