This Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) approved degree will prepare you for the role of a social worker. It has been designed to enable you to progress into employment and integrates both academic and practice work-based modules. You'll undertake an assessed placement which will give you the opportunity to gain valuable experience of being a full-time social worker in a range of different workplaces. These form an integral part of the assessment process and are arranged and assessed by the University in partnership with social work organisations. Evidence-based practice and research underpin work in the social work arena so you will explore what works in practice settings. This course also enables experienced but unqualified candidates working within social work or social care settings to gain a social work qualification. Some of the Assessed Learning Practice periods may be taken is your current work setting and accreditation of prior experiential learning (APEL) may also be permitted.