Social Work
University of Central Lancashire
UCAS Code: L500 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
112 UCAS points at A2
112 UCAS points
GCSE/National 4/National 5
5 GCSEs at Grade C/4 or above including English or equivalent. Equivalent qualifications are Functional Skills Level 2 in English or Level 3 Key Skills in Communication.
112 UCAS points from Higher Level subjects.
112 UCAS points
OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
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About this course
**Course overview**
- Social workers work with a wide cross-section of society, which includes a significant proportion of some of the most disadvantaged and excluded people in our society. Do you think you have what it takes to help these people?
- Social work involves engaging with not only service users themselves, but with their families and friends, as well as working closely with organisations including the police, local authority departments, schools and the probation service.
- A career in social work will appeal to you if you’re interested in subjects such as sociology, psychology, health and social care, politics and counselling.
- We are one of the largest, most well-established and highly regarded providers of social work and social care education and training in the UK. You will be able to draw upon our vast pool of expertise and practice experience whilst benefitting from bespoke training, research, consultancy and evaluation.
- Our programmes have been endorsed Social Work England and on successful completion you will be eligible to apply to go on the Social Work Register.
**Why choose us?**
- Our Social Work provision is ranked 4th in the UK and 2nd in England in the Guardian League Table 2021.
- As a student on our BA (Hons) Social Work course you will benefit from 170 days of practice placements and 30 skills delivery days.
- Recently, BA (Hons) Social Work students have travelled to Amsterdam, Cyprus, Toronto and Krakow, visiting other social work institutions.
Modules
Year 1: Social Justice in practice, Human Growth & Development, Learning from Service Users and Carers Experience and Knowledge, Law & Safeguarding, Communication & Interpersonal Skills, Preparation for Social Work Practice
Year 2: Working with children, young people and families, Personalisation & Citizenship; empowering adult service users, Social Perspectives on mental health & distress, Social Work Practice 1: Applying Theory, Methods and Research
Year 3: Leadership, Enterprise, Employability and the Future of Welfare, Social Work Practice 2: Critical Application of Theory, Methods and Research, Research for Specialist Professional Practice, Psychosocial Studies
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University of Central Lancashire
Burnley Campus
School of Social Work, Care and Community
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We're short of social workers - so if you want a degree that is in demand, then this could be the one for you! There's a shortage of social workers all over the UK, and graduates can specialise in specific fields such as mental health or children's social work. If you decide social work is not for you, then social work graduates also often go into management, education, youth and community work and even nursing. Starting salaries for this degree can reflect the high proportion of graduates who choose a social work career - social work graduates get paid, on average, more than graduates overall, but not all options pay as well as social work. This is also an unusual subject in that London isn't one of the more common places to find jobs - so if you want to get a job near to your home or your university this might be worth thinking about.
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