This module will enhance your knowledge, and ability to analyse and reflect on complex situations within the safeguarding children role. It will also develop your ability to consider the importance of effective multi-disciplinary and interagency safeguarding practice. Learning on the module will help enhance capability to undertake key elements of effective safeguarding practice including communicating with children, multi-disciplinary and interagency practice and managing the personal and professional interface. Taught sessions provide opportunities to engage with academic staff, expert professionals and current researchers to develop practice to a more sophisticated level required for social workers engaged in safeguarding practice on a day-to-day basis. Knowledge regarding contemporary concerns will be further enhance and updated. In group discussions and through directed learning, students will relate learning to their particular professional context and critically reflect on their own practice, ethical dilemmas and value issues arising in safeguarding practice with children and families. This is a Module which has an assignment only submission where students are required to demonstrate learning alongside evidence of critical reflection and learning from practice, practice analysis and complex analytical skills.
Award Type Single 20 Credit Module - 20 Academic Credits which depending on your study route may be used to contribute toward the PG Cert Professional Social Work Practice. You will also receive a letter confirming that you have successfully completed the Module to support your progression portfolio.
Delivery Method In person
Mode of Study
Part time
Location
Coach Lane Campus
Start January 29th 2025
Duration
5 full days
You will attend 5 full-day classroom taught days in total, during which you will partake in lectures and group discussions. A particular feature of the teaching and learning will be critical reflections on practice and on your own service user and carer’s experience to promote your appreciation of the complexity of working with people in this area which can be traumatising for parents and children and emotionally challenging as a practitioner.
The module is classroom based with direct teaching and reflective group discussion. The teaching team recognise and celebrate the existing knowledge, skills, and experience practitioners bring, and place great emphasis on exchanging and synthesising knowledge, theory and research with practice skills and interventions.
This module can be undertaken by a range of professionals e.g social workers, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists.
Applicants without a professional qualification can still apply if they have a degree and are working in an environment that will provide them with appropriate experience to complete the assessment.
On successful completion of this module, you should be able to:
1. Identify and critically evaluate legal, policy and practice developments related to safeguarding children.
2. Demonstrate mastery of the complex area of safeguarding children through critical application of relevant knowledge, research, and evidence.
3. Critically analyse dilemmas regarding assessment, risk, intervention, judgment, and decision making related to safeguarding roles.
4. Identify the short- and long-term effects of physical, sexual, or emotional harm to children, with reference to resilience and protective factors.
5. Demonstrate appropriate professional attitudes and values relating to safeguarding practice with children, young people, and their families, underpinned by relevant professional standards.
Programme Lead Dr Carole Southall carole.southall@northumbria.ac.uk
Module Lead Dr. John Cavener: john.m.cavener@northumbria.ac.uk
Module Lead – Dr. John Cavener: john.m.cavener@northiumbria.ac.uk
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