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.
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
Assessments
Portfolio