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Unit of Study SWRK4006 - Social Work Honours Placement II (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    Hons Unit

  • Credit points

    36

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    Yes

  • Enrolment information

    International onshore students must enrol in the internal offering of this unit. This placement should be completed at the end of your degree. This unit contains Work Integrated Learning (WIL) that requires students to meet mandatory fit to practice obligations prior to attending. Failure to comply by the fit to practice deadline will result in the cancellation of your WIL and you will not be permitted to continue in this unit. Full details are available at www.scu.edu.au/health/work-integrated-learning.

Unit description

Comprises the final social work honours placement. Engages students in 500 hours of supervised social work practice in a human service organisation. Students have access to regular supervision in accordance with AASW requirements. Develops professional skills, including research skills, knowledge and values based on the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) practice standards for social work. Transfers learning gained from other course work units, including honours units, to practice in a real organisation.

Unit content

  1. Professional social work relationships
  2. Communicating with stakeholders
  3. Agency and policy context
  4. Social work practice theory and models
  5. Critical self-reflection and professional supervision
  6. Professional presentation
  7. Evaluation and professional development
  8. Use of knowledge for practice and policy change
  9. Leadership in human service organisations
  10. Professional identity and practice frameworks
  11. Designing, conducting and disseminating research to inform social work practice and policy change

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast
Tri Term2
Tri Term2
Online
Tri Term2
Tri Term2

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

form, maintain and end professional and ethical social work relationships with clients, colleagues, and supervisors in a human service organisation at the level of a beginning practitioner

demonstrate and critically reflect on professional identity, practice skills and practice approaches with clients, colleagues, supervisors and other key stakeholders, and identify learning needs that extend beyond graduation

analyse the organisation, its location within wider social systems and its relationship with other organisations, such as auspicing bodies and funding agencies and implications for the role of social work and delivery of social work services to clients

demonstrate the capacity for critical thinking and analysis in relation to one's own research project and its relevance to social work theory and practice

use and critically reflect on social work knowledge, including theoretical and research knowledge, to inform social work practice and policy change, and draw on this to inform professional identity and articulate a professional practice framework

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