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Organisations and Inter-professional Practice (500L5)

15 credits, Level 7 (Masters)

Autumn and spring teaching

In this module, you'll examine theory and research to help prepare you for the contemporary organisational settings you'll work in, and the inter-professional working relationships you will form.

You'll develop an understanding of how core social work roles are undertaken effectively in an inter-agency context, where coordinated professional responses are required. You'll also go on an organisational observation.

You'll be trained to meet the professional capability standards set out in The College of Social Work Professional Capabilities Framework. 

You'll learn to: 

• adapt to changing contexts that shape practice
• operate effectively within own organisational frameworks
• contribute to the development of services and organisations
• operate effectively within multi-agency and inter-professional settings
• be proacitely repsond to the challenges and opportunities that come with changing social contexts and constructs.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 256 hours of work. This breaks down into about 63 hours of contact time and about 193 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2024/25. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.