Expand+What is this course about?
You will obtain a deeper understanding of your own goals and priorities and a fuller awareness of your strengths, limitations and potential through self-assessment, analysis and critical reflection. You will learn the abil...

Hide-What is this course about?
You will obtain a deeper understanding of your own goals and priorities and a fuller awareness of your strengths, limitations and potential through self-assessment, analysis and critical reflection. You will learn the ability to assume key roles in the management, administration, development and delivery of quality care services across a wide range of disciplines. Communities too will benefit, culturally, socially and economically through the involvement of graduates in community-based project work.

Why take this course?
This one-year, add-on course encourages and promotes the professional and personal development of students. Your ability to conceptualise and draw conclusions based on a rigorous, analytical assessment of situations, and communicate effectively as part of a team will be enhanced. This degree will equip you with advanced levels of knowledge and skills appropriate to employment in the sector. You will be able to discriminate between alternative management strategies and practices in social care work.

Expand+What will I study?
Research Project, Contemporary Social Care Practice, Contemporary Social Policy, Applied Psychology in Social Care, Social Care Management.

Electives: Choose one from Interactional Approaches to Social Care (Art, Drama or Recre...

Hide-What will I study?
Research Project, Contemporary Social Care Practice, Contemporary Social Policy, Applied Psychology in Social Care, Social Care Management.

Electives: Choose one from Interactional Approaches to Social Care (Art, Drama or Recreation) and one from the remaining electives for semester 1 - Community Development Practice, Psychotherapy, French, German, Spanish.

Choose one elective for semester 2.
Interactional Approaches to Social Care (Art, Drama or Recreation), French, German, Spanish, Sociology of Mental Health and Illness, Professional Practice with Older People, Youth Substance Use and Misuse.

Expand+What can I do after the course?
This course leads to a qualification which allows graduates to work as a professional social care worker. It will equip students to find employment with different service users in a variety of care settings, including...

Hide-What can I do after the course?
This course leads to a qualification which allows graduates to work as a professional social care worker. It will equip students to find employment with different service users in a variety of care settings, including residential child care, disability sector, youth community and family support services, people who are homeless, members of the travelling community, people who are drug or alcohol dependent, and older people. It is also a recognised stepping stone and qualification to undertake further study to pursue a career as a social worker.