Social Worker Student/Nursing
Lancashire Mind currently provides placements for Social Work Students training at UCLAN. Students join us for 100 day placements and spend time with both our supported housing and wellbeing & recovery service staff gaining experience working 1:1 with individuals and with numerous partner agencies.
The Social Work Degree
From September 2003 social-work programmes within the north west began replacing the DipSw with the new Social Work Degree. By September 2005 The DipSw had been replaced in all Social Work institutions, with the last DipSw cohort completing final year placements in the summer of 2006.
As part of the S/W Degree changes the practice-learning requirement has increased from 130 placement days to 200 days with an expectation that students will experience practice with at least two different service user groups. Students must also experience statutory social work tasks and legal interventions.
Practice learning is now in the top 50 performance indicators that local councils are required to meet for government targets. These targets will be based upon the number of planned and assessed social work placement days, the number of practising social workers and the number of placements supported in the voluntary and independent sector.
Employers in the statutory sector are expected to develop and increase practice-learning opportunities in partnership with the voluntary and private sector. The funding available will help to implement strategies and practical measures to make sure government targets are met.
The Practice Learning Opportunity
Practise educators and supervisors are a valued and essential part of the Social Work profession in terms of educating, supporting, managing and enabling social work students to experience good quality practice learning opportunities.
Lancashire Mind offers the opportunity for students to acheive all aspects of essential key roles of the National Occupational Standards. We take students from UCLAN for placements which commence in February and again in September. All students must abide by Mind's policy framework, inlcuding confidentiality.
If you are a service user you may often be approached or supported by our students, if there is any aspect of the student training needs that you do not wish to be involved in please speak with a staff member about this.
The practise educator for Lancashire Mind is Kelly Colton.
Student Information, resources & records can be downloaded below: