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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module students should be able to:
● Demonstrate an ability to plan, deliver and evaluate therapeutic groups.
● Recognise the importance of physical environment and professional capacity and manage work in accordance with resources
● Demonstrate the application of a number of social work interventions in a group context.
● Demonstrate the ability to reflect on the impact of work on themselves both professionally and personally and recognise the importance of continual professional development
● Reflect on their understanding of service users’ experiences and their own experiences as group facilitators.
● Develop skills in monitoring group dynamics and ensuring a safe environment for service users and staff.
• Develop professionally and personally through reflective practice, resulting in increased self-awareness
● Possess an appreciation of the role of social work in community work.
● Demonstrate an appreciation of the links between group dynamics and community work.
● Plan and evaluate a community work intervention.
● Draw on community practice knowledge in the second placement.
CORU Standards of Proficiency
Students should be able to meet the following Social Workers Registration Board (CORU) standards of proficiency:
Domain 1: Professional Autonomy and Accountability
1. Be able to practice safely and effectively within the legal, ethical and practice boundaries of the profession.
2. Be able to identify the limits of their practice and know when to seek advice and additional expertise or refer to another professional.
3. Be able to act in the best interest of service users at all times with due regard to their will and preference.
5. Respect and uphold the rights, dignity and autonomy of every service user including their role in the diagnostic, therapeutic and social care process.
6. Be able to exercise a professional duty of care.
9. Recognise the importance of practicing in a non-discriminatory, culturally sensitive way and acknowledge and respect the differences in beliefs and cultural practices of individuals or groups.
11. Understand and respect the confidentiality of service users and use information only for the purpose for which it was given.
12. Understand the limits of confidentiality in the context of a variety of team settings.
13. Understand and be able to apply the limits of the concept of confidentiality particularly in relation to child protection, vulnerable adults and elder abuse.
18. Recognise personal responsibility and professional accountability for one’s actions and be able to justify professional decisions made.
19. Be able to take responsibility for managing one’s own workload.
20. Understand the principles of professional decision-making and be able to make informed decisions within the context of competing demands including those relating to ethical conflicts and available resources.
21. Be aware of and be able to take responsibility for managing one’s own health and well-being.
Domain 2: Communication, Collaborative Practice and Teamworking
2. Be able to modify and adapt communication methods and styles, including verbal and nonverbal methods to suit the individual service users considering issues of language, culture, beliefs and health and/or social care needs.
3. Recognise service users as active participants in their health and social care and be able to support service users in communicating their health and/or social care needs, choices and concerns.
4. Understand the need to empower service users to manage their well-being where possible and recognise the need to provide advice to the service user on self-treatment, where appropriate.
7. Be able to apply digital literacy skills and communication technologies appropriate to the profession.
9. Be able to express professional, informed and considered opinions to service users, health professionals and others e.g. carers, relatives in varied practice settings and contexts and within the boundaries of confidentiality.
11. Understand and be able to discuss the importance of effective conflict management.
12. Understand the need to work in partnership with service users, their relatives/carers, guardians and other professionals in planning and evaluating goals, treatments and interventions and be aware of the concepts of power and authority in relationships with service users.
13. Understand the need to build and sustain professional relationships as both an independent practitioner and collaboratively as a member of a team.
15. Understand the role of relationships with professional colleagues and other workers in service delivery and the need to create professional relationships based on mutual respect and trust.
Domain 3: Safety and Quality
1. Be able to gather all appropriate background information relevant to the service user’s health and social care needs.
5. Be able to demonstrate sound logical reasoning and problem-solving skills to determine appropriate problem lists, action plans and goals.
6. Be able to demonstrate an evidence-informed approach to professional decision-making, adapting practice to the needs of the service user and draw on appropriate knowledge and skills in order to make professional judgements.
7. Be able to prioritise and maintain the safety of both service users and those involved in their care.
8. Be able to evaluate intervention plans using appropriate tools and recognised performance/ outcome measures along with service user responses to the interventions. Revise the plans as necessary and where appropriate, in conjunction with the service user.
9. Understand the need to monitor, evaluate and/or audit the quality of practice and be able to critically evaluate one’s own practice against evidence-based standards and implement improvements based on the findings of these audits and reviews.
10. Be able to recognise important risk factors and implement risk management strategies; be able to make reasoned decisions and/or provide guidance to others to initiate, continue, modify or cease interventions, techniques or courses of action and record decisions and concerns.
14. Be able to establish safe environments for practice which minimises risks to service users, those treating them and others.
Domain 4: Professional Development
1. Be able to engage in and take responsibility for professional development.
2. Understand the need to demonstrate evidence of ongoing continuing professional development and education, be aware of professional regulation requirements and understand the benefits of continuing professional development to professional practice.
3. Be able to evaluate and reflect critically on own professional practice to identify learning and development needs; be able to select appropriate learning activities to achieve professional development goals and be able to integrate new knowledge and skills into professional practice.
4. Understand and recognise the impact of personal values and life experience on professional practice and be able to take responsibility and manage this impact appropriately.
5. Understand the importance of and be able to seek professional development, supervision, feedback and peer review opportunities in order to continuously improve practice.
Domain 5: Professional Knowledge and Skills
1. Know, understand and apply the key concepts of the domains of knowledge which are relevant to the profession for individuals, groups and communities.
2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of social work theory, methods and skills, social policy and social research, including consideration in a global context.
5. Critically understand and be able to apply principles of social justice in one’s work including being able to appropriately challenge negative discrimination and unjust policies and practices.
6. Demonstrate a critical understanding of cultural competence; and work towards social inclusion.
7. Critically understand and apply a human rights based approach.
10. Critically understand the role and purpose of relationship-based practice, including the importance of planning the withdrawal of services.
11. Be able to maintain professional boundaries with service users within a variety of social work settings and be able to identify and manage any associated challenges.
12. Critically understand and apply the principles of partnership, participation and power sharing within the social work context.
13. Be able to evaluate the effect of their own characteristics, values and practice on interactions with service users and be able to critically reflect on this to improve practice.
14. Critically understand the concepts and frameworks that underpin a range of individual counselling theory and skills; theory and practice of working with children and families; community work theory and practice and group work theory and practice.
15. Recognise the role of advocacy in promoting the needs and interests of service users; be able to advocate on the behalf of service users.
16. Critically understand the capacity of system-level change to improve outcomes, access to care, and delivery of services, particularly for marginalised groups.
17. Recognise that service users have the right to self-determination including to take risks.
21. Know and critically understand the principles, ethics and applications of scientific enquiry, including the evaluation of treatment/intervention efficacy, the research process and evidence-informed practice.
22. Demonstrate skills in evidence-informed practice, including translation of theory, concepts and methods to professional practice.
23. Demonstrate safe and effective implementation of practical, technical and clinical skills.
24. Be able to identify and critically understand the impact of organisational, governmental, community and societal structures, systems and culture on health and social care.
27. Be able to communicate in English at a standard equivalent to C1 on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
The module brings together aspects of group work and community work highlighting the social work role. The module builds on group and community work theories and methods in year 1.
| Student Effort Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Lectures | 10 |
| Small Group | 12 |
| Specified Learning Activities | 40 |
| Autonomous Student Learning | 60 |
| Total | 122 |
Not applicable to this module.
| Remediation Type | Remediation Timing |
|---|---|
| In-Module Resit | Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
Assessment for group work component has two parts: a plan and a reflective assignment. Students will be given feedback on their initial group plan. This feedback will contribute to the second aspect of the assignment where the student can draw on the feedback to form the basis of their reflections on their experiences of group work.
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Ms Adrienne Cassidy | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
| Dr Mary Kennedy | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
| Dr Alan Maddock | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
| Ms Gráinne Murtagh | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
| Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 1, 2, 3 | Mon 09:00 - 10:50 |
| Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 1, 2, 3 | Mon 11:00 - 12:50 |
| Seminar | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 | Mon 09:00 - 10:50 |
| Seminar | Offering 2 | Week(s) - 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 | Mon 11:00 - 12:50 |
| Seminar | Offering 4 | Week(s) - 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 | Mon 11:00 - 12:50 |
| Seminar | Offering 5 | Week(s) - 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 | Mon 11:00 - 12:50 |