Social Work MSW

**Please check the Sheffield Hallam University website for the latest information.**<br/><br/>**Course summary:**<br/>- Gain the knowledge, skills, methods and values that inform social work.<br/><br/><br/>- Work with other professionals, service users and carers in practice placements across the social care sector.<br/><br/><br/>- Experience and engage in a variety of learning activities aimed at developing you as a professional social worker.<br/><br/><br/>Prepare for a career in social work with a course that is well connected with social work and social care service providers in the region.<br/><br/>**How you learn:**<br/><br/>All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.<br/><br/>You split your study time between acquiring the latest knowledge and necessary skills at university, and then putting it into practice on professional work placements. You spend a total of 200 days working in professional settings and attending specialist skills days.<br/><br/>You engage with a range of topics which includes:<br/><br/><br/>- assessment, planning, intervention and review<br/><br/><br/>- skills development<br/><br/><br/>- psychosocial knowledge applied across the life course<br/><br/><br/>- professional ethics<br/><br/><br/>- law and policy<br/><br/><br/>- social work theory and practice models<br/><br/><br/>- research methods and evidence based practice<br/><br/><br/>**Applied learning**<br/><br/>Theory will prepare you for practice learning experiences are designed to help you not only to apply theory to practice, but to develop critical and ethical approaches to your practice in order to become life-long, competent professionals. You are required to attend the practice learning experiences provided on the course to achieve the course practice learning outcomes.<br/><br/>You’ll undertake a range of practice learning experiences, helping you to build your skills, confidence, creativity, resilience, integrity and curiosity. This will take place in different practice learning environments, reflecting the range of ways in which services are currently delivered. This might include simulated learning and virtual placements alongside real world experience of services delivered face to face to service users. <br/><br/>The university will ensure that the practice learning element of your course will be compliant with the requirements of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB) governing your chosen profession. This is so that by the end of your course, you will have been provided with the opportunity to demonstrate attainment of the requirements to register as a professional with your chosen profession.