Subject area: Social Work
About Social Work
We offer a number of programmes dedicated to providing high quality education for people intending to be social workers or who already are social workers or engaged in allied professions. It is distinctive in the Cass School of Education and Communities in that most of our programmes incorporate or develop a professional qualification. The University of East London is accredited by the General Social Care Council to award professional qualifications in social work alongside its academic degrees. Besides offering learning and teaching in social work, there is a dedicated Centre for Social Work Research and we have excellent connections with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust’s social work staff.
We also have strong links with local social work agencies, and all staff who teach in the field are themselves professionally qualified and registered social workers. Qualifying programmes all meet government requirements which include stipulated numbers of supervised practice days in local statutory and voluntary social work agencies. In addition, there are a number of other requirements which our programmes have to meet:
- Department of Health curriculum requirements
- accreditation and validation requirements of the GSCC: accreditation of the University to award professional qualifications, and validation procedures in relation to specific programmes
- QAA subject benchmarks for Social Policy and Administration of Social Work (2008)
- National Occupational Standards for Social Work
- General Social Care Council Code of Practice for Social Care Employees
- UEL Academic Framework
Courses
- Approved Mental Health Practice (AMHP) (PG Dip/Higher Specialist Social Work Award)
- Children Young People, their Families and Carers / Social Work with Adults or GradDip. Helping Professions (GradDip. Post Qualifying Specialist Social Work or Helping Professions:)
- Consolidating Social Work Practice and Enabling Others (Graduate Certificate)
- MA International Social Welfare and Community Development (MA)
- International Social Welfare with Refugee Studies (MA)
- Social Work (MA)
Tavistock Courses
Collaborative Provision
Tavistock Centre for Couple Relations (TCCR)
- MA in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Intermediate award PG Cert)
- Professional Doctorate Couple Psychotherapy (DCplePsych) (Intermediate awards: PG Dip, PG Cert
Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust
- Professional Doctorate in Social Work and Emotional Wellbeing
- PGCert/PGDip/ Social Work and Emotional Wellbeing
- MA Social Work and Emotional Wellbeing
- Professional Doctorate in Social Care and Emotional Wellbeing
- PGCert/PGDip/ Social Care and Emotional Wellbeing
- MA Social Care and Emotional Wellbeing
- MA Strategic Leadership and Management
- Psychological Therapies with Children, Young People and Families(M34) (MA / PGDip)
