Course Catalogue

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This module extends students' learning experience by providing them with an opportunity to reflect on, and evaluate, their personal experiences and gain work related experience to enhance their employability.

Assurance Agency’s Framework for Higher Educations Qualifications. This module aims to provide the student with an opportunity to gain experience of the culture and structure of a working environment related to the student’s area of study. Students are encouraged to evaluate, and critically reflect on, the workplace as well as their role in it. Furthermore, it is expected that students will apply previously-learned academic knowledge to employment tasks.

Outline Syllabus:

• Communication skills
• Personal career planning
• Team working skills for performance environments
• Continual professional development
• Reflective writing
• Oral presentation and reporting skills
• Employability

Module Overview:
This module will be delivered during Semester 2 (Spring)

Assessment can be modified for students with SEND to address their specific needs.

Additional Information:
Suitable work placements offer students a range of learning opportunities appropriate to their academic level and career aspirations and should be, wherever possible, related to their desired subject specialism.  The placement should enable the student to build on previous experiences and learning gained in their academic course and elsewhere and should have outcomes consistent with those for their course as a whole. The duration of a placement should be equivalent to approximately 180 hours employment. Successful operation of a work placement requires adequate communication between the student, a nominated university contact (the "academic supervisor"), who will normally be a member of the academic staff group responsible for the student's degree course), and a nominated representative at the workplace (the "placement supervisor"). The respective responsibilities of these three parties are outlined below:

Responsibilities of student

While staff may on occasions facilitate the securing of a placement, it is in principle the student's responsibility to identify placement opportunities, and to ensure they are suitable through discussion with relevant academic staff at an early stage.  Students are also required to familiarise themselves with the module learning outcomes, and to agree, with both academic staff and the workplace supervisor, a learning agreement stating how the outcomes will be demonstrated for the specific placement they intend to undertake.

Students are also required to:

• be aware of any health and safety considerations or requirements
• maintain regular contact with academic and placement supervisors throughout the placement
• adhere to the any legal or ethical obligations stipulated by the work placement provider (e.g., client or patient confidentiality)
• accept the authority of the academic and workplace supervisors, and take due note of constructive criticisms, advice and ideas generated by colleagues
• be aware of their responsibilities towards others in the workplace, including colleagues, clients, customers, patients and employees
• work in a co-operative and responsible manner at all times
• alert the academic and workplace supervisors promptly regarding any ongoing problems with the placement, including any that might prevent its satisfactory completion.

 

Responsibilities of placement provider

• The placement provider is required, at the start of the placement, to confirm in writing to the academic supervisor that:
• Details of the placement procedures have been received and understood
• They agree to the placement being carried out
• They acknowledge their responsibilities for the health and safety of the student while in the workplace
• Appropriate induction will be given, including health and safety information
• Appropriate supervision will be given, on a regular basis, during the placement
• They agree to the learning contract negotiated by the student
• The placement supervisor should alert the academic supervisor promptly regarding any ongoing problems with the placement, including any that might prevent its satisfactory completion.
• The placement supervisor should confirm satisfactory attendance and performance in writing at the conclusion of the Placement period

 

The academic supervisor will:

• Give advice to the student on the suitability of placement opportunities
• Explain the procedures and assessment instruments of the module to the student, and provide a module booklet
• Give advice to the student about the production of an appropriate learning agreement
• Communicate with the placement supervisor, provide information about the placement procedures, promptly answer any queries, and solicit confirmation of the various points detailed above.
• Meet with the student periodically to review progress

Make suitable arrangements for the summative oral assessment.