Unit of Study SWRK4006 Social Work Honours Placement II (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

Hons Unit
Credit points

36
Faculty & College

Faculty of Health
Placement

Yes

Pre-requisites

SWRK2005 - Social Work Placement I AND SWRK3004 - Social Work Practice VI - Advanced Practice Methods AND SWRK4003 - Social Work Honours Thesis I

Enrolment information

International onshore students must enrol in the internal offering of this unit. This placement should be completed at the end of your degree. This unit contains Work Integrated Learning (WIL) that requires students to meet mandatory fit to practice obligations prior to attending. Failure to comply by the fit to practice deadline will result in the cancellation of your WIL and you will not be permitted to continue in this unit. Full details are available at www.scu.edu.au/health/work-integrated-learning.
Enrolment restriction

Students must seek approval to enrol via a Unit Approval Request (www.scu.edu.au/enrol-uar) following submission of fit to practice documentation.

Unit description

Comprises the final social work honours placement. Engages students in 500 hours of supervised social work practice in a human service organisation. Students have access to regular supervision in accordance with AASW requirements. Develops professional skills, including research skills, knowledge and values based on the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) practice standards for social work. Transfers learning gained from other course work units, including honours units, to practice in a real organisation.

Unit content

Professional social work relationships
Communicating with stakeholders
Agency and policy context
Social work practice theory and models
Critical self-reflection and professional supervision
Professional presentation
Evaluation and professional development
Use of knowledge for practice and policy change
Leadership in human service organisations
Professional identity and practice frameworks
Designing, conducting and disseminating research to inform social work practice and policy change

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Gold Coast	Tri Term2	Tri Term2
Online	Tri Term2	Tri Term2

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

form, maintain and end professional and ethical social work relationships with clients, colleagues, and supervisors in a human service organisation at the level of a beginning practitioner

demonstrate and critically reflect on professional identity, practice skills and practice approaches with clients, colleagues, supervisors and other key stakeholders, and identify learning needs that extend beyond graduation

analyse the organisation, its location within wider social systems and its relationship with other organisations, such as auspicing bodies and funding agencies and implications for the role of social work and delivery of social work services to clients

demonstrate the capacity for critical thinking and analysis in relation to one's own research project and its relevance to social work theory and practice

use and critically reflect on social work knowledge, including theoretical and research knowledge, to inform social work practice and policy change, and draw on this to inform professional identity and articulate a professional practice framework

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Placement 500 hours (Across placement period)

Assessment
Portfolio	SR
Journal	SR
Evaluation	SR
Presentation	SR
Evaluation	SR
Journal	SR
Report	SR
Presentation	SR

Teaching method

Placement 500 hours (Across placement period)

Assessment
Portfolio	SR
Journal	SR
Evaluation	SR
Presentation	SR
Evaluation	SR
Journal	SR
Report	SR
Presentation	SR

Prescribed learning resources

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Fee information

Domestic

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