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Unit of Study SWRK5007 Social Work Field Placement I (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    PG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    36

  • Faculty & College

  • Placement

    Yes

  • Enrolment information

    International onshore students must enrol in the internal offering of this unit. 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.


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 developing practitioner

demonstrate and critically reflect on effective engagement, communication and practice skills and intervention approaches with clients, colleagues, supervisors and other key stakeholders

critically analyse and reflect on 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

critically analyse the ways in which a social work theory is applied and social work service is provided within the organisation to respond to client needs and enhance social justice and draw on this to inform practice

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method
Placement 400 hours (Across placement period)
Assessment
PortfolioSR
JournalSR
PresentationSR
EvaluationSR
JournalSR
EvaluationSR
EssaySR
PlacementSR

Teaching method
Placement 400 hours (Across placement period)
Assessment
PortfolioSR
JournalSR
PresentationSR
EvaluationSR
JournalSR
EvaluationSR
EssaySR
PlacementSR

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • Cleak, H & Wilson, J , 2022, Making the Most of Field Placement , 5th edn, Cengage, South Melbourne. ISBN: 9780170457606.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
  • No prescribed resources/equipment.

Prescribed Texts
  • Prescribed text information is not currently available.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
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Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.

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