What Makes This Course So Special?
This is an innovative course designed to qualify you as a professional youth and community worker. We have a high level of prospective employer involvement in the design and content of the course to ensure the course is fit for purpose and we are confident that you will leave us a highly skilled and effective youth work practitioner.
Other key points include:
Good partnerships with local employers;
Professional optional modules such as Youth Justice and Community Sport tailored to suit your professional development needs and interests;
You will increase your professional research capacity;
We have a strong commitment to promotion of anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice;
There are excellent opportunities to study and practice within a European and International context;
You will have access to professionally qualified practitioners, who are also academic lecturers within their own right.
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Course Intro
The role of a youth worker includes helping young people to enhance their personal, social and educational development. Youth workers develop and co-ordinate programmes aimed at engaging young people, redressing inequalities, empowering individuals and maximising their potential. Youth workers work in a range of environments such as youth centres, schools, youth offending teams, colleges and charities.
You will work in a variety of settings utilising group work, mentoring and communication skills with individuals and groups. You will expand your knowledge and skills to include critical, analytical and reflective thinking within a youth and community work setting. You will gain a professionally recognised qualification whilst learning how to support and motivate young people to access opportunities to increase their personal, social and educational development.
Additional benefits include the opportunity to qualify as a youth and community worker through an innovative specialised pathway in one of the following:
• Youth and Community Work (Sport)
• Youth and Community Work (Youth Justice)
What you study
Year 1
• Role of the Youth and Community Work Practitioner
• Professional Values and Ethics in Youth Work
• Human Development and Change
• Introduction to Research
Optional Modules
• Sociology and Social Problems
• Introduction to the Youth Justice System
• Community Sport and Physical Activity
Year 2
• Global Youth and Community Work
• Individual and Group Work Facilitation Skills
• Research Methods
• Developing Effective Youth and Community
Work Practice
Optional Modules
• Addressing Youth Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour
• Social Welfare
• Sport Coaching
Year 3
• Interprofessional Practice
• Becoming a Critical and Reflective Youth and Community Work Practitioner
• Dissertation
A programme specification for this course is available.
Where Next?
This course equips you to become an effective professional youth and community worker who can work in partnership with young people and communities within the context of current policy. As a Youth and Community worker, you will work in a variety of settings utilising individual and group work, mentoring and communication skills with individuals and groups.
On completion of the course, there may also be opportunities for you to progress into further study via a Masters.
Interview Required
Yes. Tutors will explain the course content and you will be given the opportunity to ask us questions in addition to us assessing your suitability for the course. This can be done via Skype if necessary.
Assessment
You will be assessed through a variety of methods including: written assignments, portfolio building, placement assessor reports, presentations, critiquing journal articles and peer assessment.
Student Soundbite
“I have really enjoyed the company of my fellow students; it brightens up my week to spend a day with like-minded individuals who are of varying ages and working in a multitude of youth work settings.”