Practice Learning: Fresh thinking ... supporting practice
‘Practice is central to the new degree, with academic learning supporting practice, rather than the other way around.'
Requirements for Social Work Training, Department of Health (2002)
Royal Holloway’s MSc in Social Work programme is committed to providing a high quality and rigorous education for all students ensuring that those qualifying from RHUL demonstrate high professional standards which reflect core social work values.
RHUL’s programme meets the Department of Health Social Work training requirements, including the requirement to undertake a minimum of 200 days assessed practice throughout the MSc programme of study. There will be two assessed practice placements, each of 100 days duration:
MSc undertake practice placements in year 1 and 2.
A practice placement has a very clear focus and purpose – that is to offer a structured opportunity for students to demonstrate competence in a wide range of knowledge, skills and values against nationally agreed standards and to be assessed by a suitably qualified and/or experienced practice assessor.
The Practice Curriculum for practice placements is based on the Skills for Care National Occupational Standards|. These are divided into 6 Key Roles, subdivided into 21 units. Students are required to demonstrate that they have met the National Occupational Standards for Social Work and that they will abide by the General Social Care Council Codes of Practice| in order to be accepted onto the General Social Care Council Register of professionally qualified Social Workers.
This dedicated Practice Learning site will provide you with all the information you need in order to decide if you would like to provide a practice learning opportunity for a RHUL social work student and also to successfully practice assess and teach a RHUL social work student.
However, if you do have any queries in relation to the practice learning & teaching role or about any aspect of this site contact, a member of the Practice Learning Team who will assist you.
We hope you enjoy your practice learning experience with RHUL.
Quality Assurance in Practice Learning: QAPL' new benchmark statement|
Royal Holloway will be implementing the new benchmark statement for all social work student cohorts on practice placement from October 2009. It will become mandatory for all institutions offering the social work degree to adhere to QAPL from September 2010.
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Introduction
A practice placement has a very clear focus and purpose – that is to offer a structured opportunity for students to demonstrate competence in a wide range of knowledge, skills and values against nationally agreed standards and to be assessed by a suitably qualified and/or experienced practice assessor.
This website contains information regarding the procedures and programme expectations for student practice placements with Royal Holloway.
So, although there is a wide variety in the settings that offer practice placements, each one has a common framework upon which the student can rely. These are based upon guidelines laid down by GSCC and also in the practices and procedures developed by the Royal Holloway Programme.
This website contains basic information regarding the procedures and programme expectations of students undertaking a practice placement
Queries and concerns regarding practice placements should be directed in the first instance to the Practice Learning Team via email. If you require an informal discussion a suitable appointment can be arranged via the email system.
The Practice Learning Unit|
General practice placement information
When things go wrong
Please see link under 'For professionals' tab.