Department of Social Work and Social Care

CPD in Social Work (Post-qualifying awards)

Course leader: Sharon Lambley

We are no longer recruiting students to post-qualifying (PQ) award programmes, although some courses currently running will continue till August 2013. Students who have part-completed a PQ award must contact their training manager to discuss completion by August 2013. If it is not possible, you will likely transfer to our new Continuing Professional Development (CPD) award framework currently in development which will be in place from September 2013. Credits from the old PQ framework will be accepted and count towards awards in the new CPD framework. Check these web pages frequently for latest news/updates.

Courses running from 2012/13

Module

Fee

Dates

Supervising and Evaluating Professional Learning                              (15 credits at M level) £566 4th & 5th Feb + 11th & 12th March 2013
Enabling Work-Based Learning                         (15 credits at M level) £566 14th, 15th & 16th Jan + 15th March 2013
Developing the Professional Role £566 22nd Oct, 12th & 26th Nov + 10th Dec 2012
Assessed & Supported Year of Employment (ASYE):
Developing the Professional Role                     (15 credits at M level)
£605 5th, 19th & 26th Feb + 5th, 12th & 19th March 2013 
Achieving Better Outcomes for Children           (15 credits at M level) £605 22nd & 29th April, 13th & 20th May, 10th June 2013
Understanding Children                                    (15 credits at M level) £605 15th & 19th Oct, 19th & 26th Nov, 10th Dec 2012
Effective Assessment in a Multi-Disciplinary Context                            (15 credits at M level) £605 21st & 28th Jan, 4th, 18th & 25th Feb 2013
Assessment of Specialist Practice                     (15 credits at M level) £605 24th June, 1st July, 9th Sept 2013
Enabling Work-Based Learning                         (15 credits at M level) £566 3rd, 4th & 5th Oct, 12th Dec 2012
Leading and Managing Development and Change                               (30 credits at M level) £962

6th, 13th & 27th Nov + 11th Dec 2012
15th & 29th Jan + 5th & 19th Feb 2013

Supervising and Managing Professionals           (30 credits at M level) £962 14th & 15th Feb, 14th & 15th March, 11th & 12th April, 2nd & 3rd May 2013
Communicating with Children in Complex Circumstances                    (30 credits at M level)                             * London-based £990 10th & 11th Jan, 7th & 8th Feb, 7th & 8th March 2013

Surrey and Sussex Post Qualifying Social Work Education Fund

For the academic year 2012/13 bursary funding is available from the Surrey and Sussex PQ Social Work Education Fund for those wishing to take PQ Higher Specialist and Advanced level courses.

For eligibility see Post Qualifying Social Work Education Fund Criteria [DOC 38.50KB] and to apply complete the Post Qualifying Social Work Education Fund Bursary Application Form [DOC 63.50KB]

Completed application forms should be sent to:
The PQ Bursary Administrator for the Surrey & Sussex PQ Social Work Education Fund
School of Social Work
Kingston University
Kenry House
Kingston Hill
Kingston Upon Thames
KT2 7LB

APL

Most of the CPD courses offered by the Department of Social Work and Social Care can be taken as a range of modules which can be tailored to your own professional development needs - be that your current role or qualifications towards your career development. Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) is a system by which you can build on prior learning to fast-track the obtaining of further qualifications. Formally assessed courses, part-qualifications, as well as full qualifications, are all recognised and can count towards future study. APL is an accepted part of the University's educational provision with former credits counting towards its own awards - provided the learning outcomes of your former qualifications/awards matches that of the Sussex course. To this end, a flexible and robust APL procedure has been developed by the Department of Social Work and Social Care at Sussex to enable students to use former credits towards future ones.

Download the Accreditation of Prior Learning Procedures: 2012/13 [DOCX 126.95KB] and the APL Application Form: 2012/13 [DOC 154.00KB]

If partners or other organisations would like us to deliver courses to groups of staff, please contact s.lambley@sussex.ac.uk.

For all enquiries - regarding the above courses, admissions or APL - please contact pqcoord@sussex.ac.uk