Course overview
The aim of this course is to enable students to apply human service practice knowledge and skills in a work setting and to critically reflect on their professional identity as a human service worker. Students will complete 280 hours in placement. They will demonstrate human service skills and draw from theory in their practice. Students will develop their professional selves through developing a working relationship with a supervisor, establishing effective and constructive relationships, and managing diversity within their placement organisation, and by evaluating their effectiveness as a worker.
Course learning outcomes
- Critically analyse the structure and functions of the host agency
- Evaluate the range of services within the host agency's network
- Critique the various roles of workers and the approaches to intervention in the human service agency
- Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills in a professional context and within diverse communities to develop constructive working relationships
- Demonstrate awareness of and ability to manage diversity in the workplace
- Work as a reliable and constructive team member in the placement agency
- Critically examine own strengths and developmental needs as a competent human service worker