Overview

The University of Chichester offers a wide range of social work courses. These reflect our interest in and commitment to social justice and anti-oppressive practice and relationship-based social work. These frameworks inform all of our teaching and learning. We seek to develop and promote social work learning through the linking of research and teaching and the involvement of those who use and provide social work services in the courses’ design, delivery and assessment. We see our role as educators to support the development of knowledgeable, questioning and independent thinkers to the discipline of social work and to ensure our education is evidence informed and dynamic.

Successful graduates from this programme will be able to register with the General Social Care Council as qualified social workers. The course begins with a carefully structured induction programme designed to prepare students for the wide range of experiences and learning opportunities they will encounter during the degree. At every level of the course there will be a module to develop personal and professional skills. Students will also be supported by a structured tutorial programme which will link their campus-based learning to key social work roles.

Why this course?

• It combines a professional qualification with an academic degree
  
• Non means-tested bursaries are available
  
• An excellent rating in the national student satisfaction survey
  
• It is small enough to ensure personal contact, yet large enough to provide good services and support
  
• An excellent record of providing a wide range of settings for practice experience
  
• A well-established reputation for teaching social work to degree level and beyond
  
• Experienced and qualified social workers trained to act as practice assessors
  
• Mature students welcome with non-standard qualifications

Careers

• Graduates will meet the National Occupational Standards for Social Workers and register with the General Social Care Council (GSCC) as newly qualified social workers
  
• Graduate can undertake careers in the public, voluntary and private sectors; both nationally and internationally.