SWM5108 · Supervised professional practice 2

Overview

This unit will facilitate your entry into the social work profession across a range of practice fields. You will observe, practice, and critically reflect on the role of social work in a health or human services context for a minimum of 500 hours. You will perform a range of social work interventions and assessments within the placement, based on your experience and learning from the pre-fieldwork units. The range of activities is aligned with the 2023 Practice Standards of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW). These Practice Standards have informed nine learning outcomes to help you succeed. Additionally, under the guidance of a social work qualified Supervisor and an assigned University Liaison, you will demonstrate performance at the level expected of a newly qualified social worker. Your progress through the unit will be aided by a learning agreement, mid-placement and end-of-placement reporting, critical reflection activities, and timesheets to ensure that you are meeting the AASW requirements for placement hours and supervision.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. On successful completion of this unit you will be able demonstrate competence across the four domains of effective social work practice Professionalism, Understanding Context, Applying Professional Skills and Drawing on Evidence and Knowledge. More specifically you will be able to:
2. Explain and apply the AASW Code of Ethics to the practice context/setting.
3. Apply culturally safe practices and prioritise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples diversity, strengths, and knowledge.
4. Adapt knowledge and skills of advocacy and cultural diversity aimed at achieving fair and equitable access for people to resources.
5. Adapt practice to work inclusively and respectfully with cultural difference and diversity.
6. Adapt theory and research and show advocacy within a social work knowledge framework.
7. Justify decisions based on a holistic assessment of people’s risks, needs, strengths, goals, and preferences.
8. Propose ways of strengthening and promoting social work’s identity and professional standing.
9. Synthesise feedback and critical reflection and set goals to strengthen practice through supervision.
10. Appraise skills and knowledge to maintain and improve, and set goals to broaden professional development.

Workload

No workload detail published.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.