1. Apply your knowledge, skills and values as set out in the Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF) ‘End of Final Placement’ level descriptor.

Knowledge and Understanding

Safe and Professional Practice

2. Critically evaluate and apply the evidence base that informs social work practice in complex and unpredictable situations, both individually and in collaboration with others.

Critical Reasoning & Collaboration

3. Critically reflect on the use of supervision to identify opportunities for development in your future practice.

Reflection

Personal Development and Entrepreneurship

4. Demonstrate skills in the appropriate use of digital tools to record, analyse and share information, including where appropriate, ethical use of artificial intelligence.

Digital Literacy

Formative assessment:

You will be required to complete a range of tasks by your practice educator &/ on-site supervisor (also known as a work-based supervisor). These may include, reflective logs or diaries, written tasks, verbal discussion, formal or informal presentation.

Summative assessment:

Assessment 1:

Completion of all elements of the digital Professional Practice Portfolio. This will include

Student Learning Plan

Mid-Point Review

3 x Successfully completed direct observations of practice, including evidence of preparation, observer feedback and student reflection on the observation

500-word reflection on feedback from people with lived experience

3 x 750-word critical reflections mapped to the PCF super domains (NB an additional reflection will be required from students where the concerns process was initiated/followed)

A 250-word reflection on the use of digital tools to aid social work practice e.g. assistive technologies, digital recording systems, or the ethical use of AI

Future learning needs

Summative Practice Educator report

Student reflection on the summative assessment report

Where relevant, a Work-Based Supervisor’s Report.

Professional Portfolio evidencing learning outcome 1, this is a pass / fail element of the assessment strategy for this module.

Assessment 2: Critical Incident Presentation

You will be asked to present for 30 minutes, including 5 minutes for questions, on an incident that occurred in practice, that was critical in your development as a confident, skilled social work practitioner.

You will complete a 100-day practice learning opportunity (placement) where you will have the opportunity to demonstrate that you have met the requirements of the Professional Capabilities Framework at the End of Last Placement / Completion level. Your placement could be in any relevant setting and will have been quality assured to ensure that it provides suitable opportunities to demonstrate your capabilities.

During your placement, you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge, critical understanding and application of theories, concepts, and values of social work. You will utilise a range of social work skills to provide and support service users their families and carers.

Your learning and assessments of your capabilities will focus on the domains of the Professional Capabilities Framework at the End of Last Placement / Completion level.

During the placement, you will attend 4 Professional Development Days (PDD) at the university where current themes and issues will be discussed, and links formed between theories, law, and practice.

By undertaking this module, you will be given the opportunity to undertake a 100-day placement where you will be required to complete social work interventions that involve working with risk and complexity. Through these placements, you will develop your confidence and skills in critical application of the legal frameworks for practice and the wider evidence based that informs robust assessment and decision making in social work practice. You will be supported by experienced social work practitioners, who in their role as practice educator, will facilitate critical reflection and application of the knowledge, skills and values required to be a professional social worker.

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities:

4 x Professional Development Days (PDD) throughout the placement, these are included in the total 100 days of your placement

Guided Independent Study:

Use of the VLE

Guided or independent reading relevant to the placement area

Accessing online resources such as websites, podcasts

Reflecting on practice learning

Presentation preparation

You are required to complete 100 full days in practice. Attendance at all of these is mandatory, and any missed days, regardless of the reason, must be made up at the end of placement.

Healy, K (2022) Social Work Theories in Context. Creating Frameworks for Practice. 3rd ed. London. Bloomsbury

Rogers, M and Allen, D (2019) Applying critical thinking and analysis in social work.

Rogers, M. Whitaker, D. Edmondson, D. and Peach, D. (2017) Developing Skills for Social Work Practice. London: Sage

Tedam, P (2024) Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice. Learning Matters

Simulation suites

Virti or other digital tools to aid in phenomena or simulation-based learning