This exciting new course, commencing September 2021, has been developed collaboratively with social workers, educators, academics, practice professionals, experts by experience, and students, to make certain that it is innovative, dynamic, progressive, and contemporary; a course that meets the standards of our professional body, Social Work England.

Throughout your time with us, you will learn how to use your knowledge, skills, and behaviour to deliver effective, evidence-based, and person-centred social work interventions to children, young people, families, and adults. You will also develop academic, analytic, and intellectual skills, that will underpin your critical thinking on a wide spectrum of important issues in social work. You will engage in activities that will support your exploration of your own strengths, help you build on them, and take responsibility for your own education and professional development as well as providing the scaffolding for you to develop into a robust colleague, scholar, and leader.

We recognise social work both as an art and a social science, requiring an understanding of political, legal, psychological, and social perspectives that are integrated within the course, alongside the development of communication and interpersonal skills, resilience, and emotional intelligence, and the need to facilitate the development of trusting relationships.

Our social work degree leads to a professional qualification, approved by Social Work England, which can open the door to many rewarding social work jobs and assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) opportunities.

Once you graduate you could go on to work in:

• a local authority
• the health sector
• the education sector
• non-governmental organisations (NGOs) 
• the private and charitable sectors.

As a newly qualified social worker you will need to undertake an assessed and supported year before being fully registered.

A qualified social worker can study postgraduate qualifications through post-registration study or training and learning. You will also have the option to specialise in wide and various career pathways, settings and roles.

Qualified social workers can train to become practice educators and take on a student in their agency.