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The module content will help students to meet CORU standards, including the following:
1. Professional Autonomy and Accountability
Domain 1: Professional autonomy and accountability
1.1 Be able to practise safely and effectively within the legal and ethical boundaries of their profession
1.3 Be able to act in the best interest of service users at all times with due regard to their will and preference
1.5 Respect and uphold the rights, dignity and autonomy of every service user including their role in the diagnostic, therapeutic and social care process.
1.19 Be able to take responsibility for managing one's own workload
Domain 2: Communication, Collaborative Practice and Teamworking
2.1 be able to communicate diagnose/assessment and/or treatment/management options in a way that can be understood by the service user including non-voluntary service users
2.3 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
2.9 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
Domain 3:Safety and trust
3.6 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
3.9 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.
Domain 4 Professional Development
4.1 Be able to engage in and take responsibility for professional development
4.3 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
Domain 5. Professional Knowledge and Skills
5.2 Demonstrate a critical understanding of social work theory, methods and skills, social policy and social research, including consideration in a global context
5.8 Critically understand the legislative basis of actions within a service
5.21 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
5.22 Demonstrate skills in evidence-informed practice, including translation of theory, concepts and methods to professional practice
5.24 Be able to identify and critically understand the impact of organisational, governmental, community and societal structures, systems and culture on health and social care
5.25 Demonstrate ability to participate in clinical, academic or practice-cased research
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Tutorial | 4 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 600 |
Total | 604 |
Not applicable to this module.
Remediation Type | Remediation Timing |
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In-Module Resit | Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
Students will received formative feedback from supervisors at four points in the module, then a summative feedback process will follow on submission of the dissertation