The course focuses on developing your skills to engage with a diverse range of people, both adults and children, to address complex life challenges and enhance wellbeing. This will equip you to work in an exciting profession, promoting the rights and wellbeing of people, families and communities, through establishing and maintaining the trust and confidence of those people while acting with professional integrity and promoting ethical practice.

The social work programme meets current Social Work England Qualifying Education and Standards as well as Professional Standards and BASW. The programme and is led by research-active academic staff with contributions from social work practitioners, service users and carers as well as other professionals.

By the end of the programme, successful graduates will be eligible can apply to register as social workers with Social Work England.

Graduates from the MA programmes have consistently demonstrated high rates of progression into relevant employment.

Careers where your degree would be useful include:

• Careers adviser
• Community development worker
• Counsellor
• Equality, diversity and inclusion officer
• Youth worker