This is a broad-based course which benefits from a wide range of staff specialisms. All qualifying programmes like Brunel which were approved by the GSCC have automatically received transitional approval from the HCPC (Health & Care Professions Council). Our degree in Social Work is delivered in partnership with a number statutory and voluntary agencies alongside service users and carers group BEC (Brunel Experts by Experience Committee) and our Alumni group of past students. The BA is awarded via either the 3-year full-time route or the 6-year part-time route. The professional and academic elements of the course are closely integrated throughout. Seminars, tutorials and formal classes are integrated with professional practice, and theory is applied through the analysis of social issues and problems. You must be able to attend university and your placement. The programme is generally delivered between the hours of 9am and 5pm each day but can extend beyond these times. Candidates must demonstrate the capacity to undertake the academic demands of the course and have relevant work based experience.This is a broad-based course which benefits from a wide range of staff specialisms. All qualifying programmes like Brunel which were approved by the GSCC have automatically received transitional approval from the HCPC (Health & Care Professions Council). Our degree in Social Work is delivered in partnership with a number statutory and voluntary agencies alongside service users and carers group BEC (Brunel Experts by Experience Committee) and our Alumni group of past students. The BA is awarded via either the 3-year full-time route or the 6-year part-time route. The professional and academic elements of the course are closely integrated throughout. Seminars, tutorials and formal classes are integrated with professional practice, and theory is applied through the analysis of social issues and problems. You must be able to attend university and your placement. The programme is generally delivered between the hours of 9am and 5pm each day but can extend beyond these times. Candidates must demonstrate the capacity to undertake the academic demands of the course and have relevant work based experience.This is a broad-based course which benefits from a wide range of staff specialisms. All qualifying programmes like Brunel which were approved by the GSCC have automatically received transitional approval from the HCPC (Health & Care Professions Council). Our degree in Social Work is delivered in partnership with a number statutory and voluntary agencies alongside service users and carers group BEC (Brunel Experts by Experience Committee) and our Alumni group of past students. The BA is awarded via either the 3-year full-time route or the 6-year part-time route. The professional and academic elements of the course are closely integrated throughout. Seminars, tutorials and formal classes are integrated with professional practice, and theory is applied through the analysis of social issues and problems. You must be able to attend university and your placement. The programme is generally delivered between the hours of 9am and 5pm each day but can extend beyond these times. Candidates must demonstrate the capacity to undertake the academic demands of the course and have relevant work based experience. This BA (Hons) Social Work degree programme aims to provide high quality undergraduate social work education and training to equip students with a beginning capability to work in any agency employing social workers in the United Kingdom. It also confers eligibility to apply to the Health and Care Professions Council for registration as a social worker upon successful completion of the prescribed programme of study. Although the statutory sector is the major employer, increasingly social workers are being recruited into the voluntary and private sectors, whether as commissioners or providers of services and whether in field, residential or day services. The programme seeks to encourage the personal responsibility of students to function as independent learners and to develop a critical and reflective appreciation of the role of social work in society. The curriculum provides teaching in both academic and practice elements, which at Brunel University London are fully integrated. It is designed to ensure that learning occurs in an incremental way, with learning outcomes that develop across levels enabling students to demonstrate progression in professional knowledge, skills and values through three years of study. Specifically, the programme aims to: * prepare students for critical and reflective professional practice according to the HCPC’s approval standards of education, and The College of Social Work’s Professional Capabilities Framework; * equip students to practise ethical, innovative and effective social work practice that actively promotes social justice in a diverse society; * integrate learning in academic and practice elements of the programme so that students have a holistic understanding of social work in variety of professional contexts; * enable students to identify, understand and critically appraise evidence and research which can inform social work practice; * enable graduates to apply for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council and apply for membership of The College of Social Work (TCSW) and the British Association of Social Workers (BASW).

Practice Learning and Skills development is an essential part of the course at Levels 1, 2 and 3. The professional and academic elements of the course are strongly integrated. The requirement is 170 days in practice learning settings, 70 days at Level 2 and 100 days at Level 3. You will have a practice tutor and an experienced trained practice educator in each placement. Individual and group tutorials are a core timetabled part of the curriculum. Your practice tutor has a particular responsibility for maintaining links between your university-based and placement-based learning and ensuring that you meet the College of Social Work Professional Capabilities Framework and the HCPC Standards of Proficiency. Careers Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey Social Work is a very vocational degree and on successful completion of the course graduates may apply for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and practice as a Social Worker. In 2011/12, six months after graduating: * 77.3% of graduates with a first degree were in employment * 9.1% were in full-time further study Read more about graduate destinations for this subject area The programme aims to produce graduates with critical understanding of a range of knowledge, concepts and theories including the values, principles, methods and intervention skills of social work; theories of life span development; causes and impacts of social disadvantage and vulnerability; the political, social, economic, historical and other structures in which social and health policy is developed and applied; the relevant legislative frameworks and the organisational contexts in which social work services including statutory, voluntary, private and other sectors, are governed and delivered; and evidence-based underpinnings to social work practice. Graduates of the programme should also have an ability to critically analyse, evaluate and synthesise complex material, and make sound judgments in problem-solving and decision-making processes; examine and utilise relevant social work theory and research evidence in the analysis of practice with service users and the context in which practice is delivered; review research literature, research methods, research ethics, user involvement in research, programme evaluation and evidence-based practice; and independently identify, reflect on and analyse ideological assumptions, feelings and actions in relation to direct practice, research activities and professional development. Many students who complete the BA in Social Work go on to attend one of our post-qualifying courses.