Field Education Placement 2 PG (12023.1)

The unit provides 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 this unit, students will complete their final supervised 500-hour (incudes compulsory 14 hours of integrated seminars) placement demonstrating professional skills, knowledge, and values at the level of professional competency at the levels required by the Australian Association of Social Workers Practice Standards.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Form, develop and maintain professional and ethical relationships with service users, key stakeholders, and colleagues within a human service;
2. Demonstrate and critically reflect on professional communication in practice with service users, carers, colleagues and other key stakeholders;
3. Demonstrate use of social work knowledge, values and skills are required for a beginning practitioner; and
4. Engage actively in professional supervision and identify learning needs as a new social work practitioner.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
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 - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
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
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - apply their knowledge to working with Indigenous Australians in socially just ways

Prerequisites

12021 Groupwork Practice in Social Work PG

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.