Social Worker Apprenticeship University of Worcester

Overview

Graduates from the Social Worker Apprenticeship programme offered by the University pf Worcester could choose alternative career paths working in relevant fields such as education, family support, community development, or working with young people in a range of settings.

Key facts

• This programme aims to develop social workers who are employed in a Social Worker apprenticeship role, ready for professional practice and can successfully work within a dynamic, increasingly complex social welfare context.
• This course aims to enable apprentices to become reflective, adaptable practitioners who recognise the role of the professional social worker in managing the competing rights and needs of individuals and groups, and who demonstrate commitment to anti-oppressive and anti-discriminatory practice principles.
• This programme provides apprentices with knowledge, skills and behaviour to work effectively within an inter-disciplinary context and within integrated social welfare systems, collaborating with other health and social care professionals and services.
• We strive to promote partnership working with people with lived experiences of social care services within professional social work practice and within the design, planning, delivery and evaluation of the degree programme.
• Apprentices will be encouraged to become critically reflective practitioners, with the ability to apply contemporary knowledge, theory and research evidence to underpin professional practice.