On completion of this Module students should:
Have integrated classroom learning with practice on placement. Students should have continued to develop their skills on the following:
Professional Autonomy and Accountability
1. Be able to practise 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
4. Be aware of current guidelines and legislation relating to candour and
disclosure
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
7. Understand the importance of maintaining accurate up to date documentation
8. Understand what is required of them by the Registration Board and be
familiar with the provisions of the current Code of Professional Conduct and
Ethics for the profession issued by the Registration Board
9. Recognise the importance of practising in a non-discriminatory, culturally
sensitive way and acknowledge and respect the differences in beliefs and
cultural practices of individuals or groups
10. Understand the role of policies and systems to protect the health, safety,
welfare, equality and dignity of service users, staff and volunteers
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
14. Be aware of current data protection, freedom of information and other
legislation relevant to the profession and be able to access new and emerging
legislation
15. Be able to recognise and manage the potential conflict that can arise between
confidentiality and whistle-blowing
16. Be able to gain informed consent to carry out assessments or provide
treatment/interventions and document evidence that consent has been
obtained
17. Be aware of current legislation and guidelines related to informed consent, for
individuals with lack of capacity
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 wellbeing
2. Communication, Collaborative Practice and Teamworking
1. Be able to communicate diagnosis/assessment and/or
treatment/management options in a way that can be understood by the
service user including non-voluntary service users
2. Be able to modify and adapt communication methods and styles, including
verbal and non-verbal 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
5. Be able to recognise when the services of a professional translator are
required
6. Be able to produce clear, concise, accurate and objective documentation
7. Be able to apply digital literacy skills and communication technologies
appropriate to the profession
8. Be aware of and comply with local/national documentation standards
including, for example, terminology, signature requirements
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
10. Understand and be able to recognise the impact and importance of effective
leadership and management on practice
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
14. Understand the role and impact of effective interdisciplinary team working in
meeting service user needs and be able to effectively contribute to decisionmaking within a team setting
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
3. Safety and Quality
1. Be able to gather all appropriate background information relevant to the
service user’s health and social care needs
2. Be able to justify the selection of and implement appropriate assessment
techniques and be able to undertake and record a thorough, sensitive and
detailed assessment
3. Be able to determine the appropriate tests/assessments required and
undertake/arrange these tests
4. Be able to analyse and critically evaluate the information collected in the
assessment process
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 judgments
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
11. Understand the principles of quality assurance and quality improvement
12. Be able to carry out and document a risk analysis and implement effective risk
management controls and strategies; be able to clearly communicate any
identified risk, adverse events or near misses in line with current
legislation/guidelines
13. Be able to have knowledge of critical engagement with relevant and current
health and safety legislation and guidelines
14. Be able to establish safe environments for practice which minimises risks to
service users, those treating them and others
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
6. Understand the importance of participation in performance management activities
for effective service delivery
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
3. Have a critical understanding of sociology, psychology, human growth and
development, health, law, economics and political science
4. Critically understand the importance of effective supervisory frameworks and
be able to actively participate in same.
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
8. Critically understand the legislative basis of actions within a service
9. Demonstrate an awareness and critical understanding of how social work
practice is influenced by regulations, national guidelines and standards,
findings of inquiries, investigations, associated reports; issues and trends in
public and policy development; and be able to access new and emerging
information which affects social work practice
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
18. Be able to conduct risk management planning with service users to maximise
their own safety, safety of others and societal safety across the lifespan in a
variety of contexts
19. Critically understand the role of ethics in the use of digital and social media
including maintaining confidentiality and professionalism
20. Be able to write concise, accurate reports which articulate and justify
professional decisions made
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
25. Demonstrate ability to participate in clinical, academic or practice-based
research
26. Know the basic principles of effective teaching and learning, mentoring and
supervision
27. Be able to communicate in English at a standard equivalent to C1 on the
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Not applicable to this module.

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment

Students received feedback on a regular basis throughout their placement