1. Display the personal responsibility and transferable skills necessary for employment or further training of a professional or equivalent nature.
Reflection

2. Work with professional staff demonstrating equality of opportunity and sensitivity to the specific needs of the customers.
Application
Knowledge & Understanding
Reflection

3. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the work challenges and issues experienced by workers in the public/voluntary/community sector and relate this to Sociological and Criminological theory. Enquiry
Knowledge & Understanding

4. Communicate in a clear way, using good English, the professional learning experienced on the placement. Communication

Evidence of completing 60 hours in the placement to the module leader. 0%

A 10 min verbal presentation - 30%
The presentation must contain:
1) Details of the placement organisation and the work task(s) that you were assigned.
2) Reflections upon the work environment and your personal and professional learning from the placement experience.
3) Reflections upon the skills that you have gained and how this might be transferable to the future.


A 4,500 word Portfolio (assessing learning outcomes 2,3 & 4) - 70%

Portfolio’s will consist of 3 pieces of reflective writing:
1) Reflections on getting a placement and the challenges of getting work
2) Reflections upon delivering a presentation and professional conduct
3) A sociological analysis of the workplace based on your experience on your placement


• There is a pass requirement of providing the evidence of completing the 60 hours placement to the module leader.
• The 10 min verbal presentation tests students’ achievement of Learning Outcomes 1 and 4.
• The 4,500 word Portfolio tests students’ achievement of Learning Outcomes 2,3 & 4.

This module offers the opportunity to experience the professional world of work in a public, voluntary or community organisation or a registered charity. Particular attention is paid to an appreciation of the ethical, practical, technical and financial (resource) issues involved in working with and for these sectors in the audit-driven culture of the twenty-first century. Students will typically be working with professional staff in the support of customers who experience some form of social disadvantage and require support and/or may be working in a profession related to their prospective career for example, students may wish to seek a placement with the probation service or a charity supporting people who have been released from prison or a local service supporting people with drug or alcohol mis-use problems. Alternatively, students might be required to contribute towards or conduct a small-scale research/evaluation project for the organisation or profession. Students are supported in choosing their placement, supported to secure that placement and then supported throughout that placement.

Learning on this module takes place through scheduled learning and teaching activities and the beginning and then end of the module but also through the work placement.

Recommended Library Books and Journals appropriate to placement.

Alcock P (2010) 'A strategic unity: defining the third sector in the UK' in Voluntary Sector Review, Vol 1, Number 1 http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/vsr/2010/00000001/00000001/art00002

Edgell S (2012) The Sociology of Work: Continuity and Change in Paid and Unpaid Work. 2nd Ed. Sage, London.

Grint K & Nixon D (2015) The Sociology of Work (4th ed). Polity, Cambridge

Watson TJ (2003) Sociology, Work and Industry (4th ed) Routledge, London

Wilkinson and Pickett (2009) The Spirit Level

Williams JB (2004) 'Exploring the use of blogs as learning spaces in the higher education sector' in Australian Journal of Educational Technology http://ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet20/williams.html

Placement Handbook
Blackboard
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check (previously CRB checks)
Policy documents of the placement organisation (provided by the placement provider)

The module leader has the right to refuse students onto this module if they have a poor attendance and engagement.

This module offers the opportunity to experience the professional world of work in a public, voluntary or community organisation or a registered charity. Particular attention is paid to an appreciation of the ethical, practical, technical and financial (resource) issues involved in working with and for these sectors in the audit-driven culture of the twenty-first century. Students will typically be working with professional staff in the support of customers who experience some form of social disadvantage and require support and/or may be working in a profession related to their prospective career for example, students may wish to seek a placement with the probation service or a charity supporting people who have been released from prison or a local service supporting people with drug or alcohol mis-use problems. Alternatively, students might be required to contribute towards or conduct a small-scale research/evaluation project for the organisation or profession. Students are supported in choosing their placement, supported to secure that placement and then supported throughout that placement.