Field Education Placement 1 PG (12022.1)

In this unit students will undertake professional social work experiences in a range of settings that may include health, aged care, community services, child and family welfare, mental health, community work, research, policy, and planning. In a supervised 500-hour (incudes compulsory 14 hours of integrated seminars) placement students will demonstrate professional skills, knowledge, and values in accordance with the Australian Association of Social Workers practice standards. This is the first of two placements in which students integrate their academic learning into an authentic professional context.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Develop and maintain professional and ethical relationships with service users, key stakeholders, and colleagues;
2. Demonstrate and critically reflect on professional communication in practice settings;
3. Analyse the context of the placement, its location in the wider human and community services; and
4. Effectively utilise social work learnings under professional supervision.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
2. UC graduates are global citizens - make creative use of technology in their learning and professional lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - communicate and engage with Indigenous Australians in ethical and culturally respectful ways

Prerequisites

12016 Theoretical Approaches to Social Work Practice PG

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.