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Unit of Study SWRK5007 - Social Work Field Placement I (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    PG Coursework 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 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

Engages students in 400 hours of supervised social work practice in a human service organisation developing professional skills, knowledge and values in line with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) practice standards for social work. Transfers learning gained from other units to practice in a real organisation.

Unit content

  1. Professional relationships
  2. Communicating with stakeholders
  3. Agency context
  4. Social work practice theory and models
  5. Professional supervision
  6. Research informed practice
  7. Team work and group dynamics
  8. Evaluation of practice skills
  9. Critical reflection

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast
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Online
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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 developing practitioner

demonstrate and critically reflect on effective engagement, communication and practice skills and intervention approaches with clients, colleagues, supervisors and other key stakeholders

critically analyse and reflect on 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

critically analyse the ways in which a social work theory is applied and social work service is provided within the organisation to respond to client needs and enhance social justice and draw on this to inform practice

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • Cleak, H & Wilson, J , 2022, Making the Most of Field Placement , 5th edn, Cengage, South Melbourne. ISBN: 9780170457606.
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