Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Public and Allied Health

Learning Methods

Lecture
Workshop

Module Offerings

5040SWA-APR-CTY

Aims

The aim of the module is to build your understanding, knowledge and confidence in practicing as part of a multi-agency team, working with adults or children.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:• The political and policy development of joint working and multi-agency working • How can multi-agency working make a difference for service users? • Duty of care, duty of candour and whistleblowing • Legislation and collaborative working in adult services • Legislation and collaborative working in children's services • Inter-professional team working for service delivery • Multi-agency working in the community - working in a joint team • Communication and interpersonal skills in multi-agency working • Assertiveness skills and multi-agency working • Evidence-based practice, research and innovation in multi-agency working • Palliative care • Recognising and responding to malnutrition in adults and children • Assistive living technologies for self-care and autonomy • Continence care in adults and enuresis in children • Multi-agency working and S42 Care Act Enquiries • Multi-agency working and the Team Around the Child • Co-ordinating multi-agency safeguarding investigations
Module Overview:
The aim of the module is to build your understanding, knowledge and confidence in practicing as part of a multi-agency team, working with adults or children.
Additional Information:This module is mapped to the following standards for social work education: Apprenticeship Standards Professional values and ethics Skills: • ensure professional ethical standards are developed, maintained and promoted • take responsibility for your decisions and recommendations Knowledge: • the importance of maintaining, and the limits of, confidentiality Views of people who use services, carers and families Skills • promote the best interests of people who use services, carers, their families and communities Evidence based decision making and analysis Skills • manage and weigh up competing/conflicting values or interests to make reasoned professional judgement Knowledge • the value of research and analysis and be able to evaluate evidence to inform practice Personal and professional development Skills • work in partnership with others Knowledge: • the scope and limits of practice and when/how to seek advice from a range of sources Safe professional practice and safeguarding Skills: • establish and maintain personal and professional boundaries Knowledge: • the role of the Social Worker and roles of others within safeguarding, appropriate to levels of skills and experience Communication Skills: • communicate in English at the level required by the HCPC Working with others: Skills: • demonstrate effective interpersonal skills • engage effectively in inter-professional and inter-agency working to achieve positive outcomes Knowledge • The full range of interpersonal skills required to work with other professionals and agencies • the different social and organisational contexts within which social work operates Recording and Reporting: Skills: • maintain accurate and complete records in accordance with applicable legislation, protocols and guidelines Use of technology Skills: • use technology to communicate appropriately • promote the use of technology to achieve better outcomes Knowledge • IT data sharing protocols Social Work England Professional Standards Standard 1: Promote the rights, strengths and wellbeing of people, families and communities (1.4) Standard 2: Establish and maintain the trust and confidence of people (2.6) Standard 3: Be accountable for the quality of my practice and the decisions I make (3.6, 3.9) Standard 4: Maintain my continuing professional development (4.5) Standard 5: Act safely, respectfully and with professional integrity Standard 6: Promote ethical practice and report concerns (6.2, 6.4, 6.5) PCF domains Professionalism; Values & Ethics; Diversity & Equality; Knowledge; Critical Reflection & Analysis; Contexts & Organisations; Professional Leadership Knowledge and Skills Statements Knowledge and Skills for Approved Child and Family Practitioners; Organisational Context Knowledge and Skills Statement for Social Workers in Adult Services; Organisational Context

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