Social Work In Community Care
Level 4
 
Title of learning programme Social Work In Community Care Programme
Programme level 4
Duration of learning programme 20 weeks x 10 hours
Total number of learning hours per programme 200 *

* Please note that this is only an approximate figure and is dependant upon how much time you can dedicate to your studies and also how well you grasp the learning concepts in the course material. Furthermore, at the end of each module there is a question paper which needs to be completed and returned to your personal tutor.

Structure
 
Module Module Title
1

Background and Issues

2

Implementation of Changes
3

Who Does the Caring
4

Approaches to Working with Users
5

Working with Users
6

Practising Care Management
7 Assessing for Community Care
8 Working in Partnership
9

Working with Carers
10 Working with Mentally Distressed People
11 Working with Older People
12

Working with Disabled People
 

Learning Outcomes
 

Module 1 – Background and Issues.
On successful completion of this module the candidate will be able to:
  Learning Outcome
LO1

List barriers to effective community care.
LO2

Explore co-ordination at local level.
LO3 Demonstrate changes in institutional provision.
LO4 Analyse the background to the National Health Service and Community care Act 1990.
 

Module 2 – Implementation of Changes.
On successful completion of this module the candidate will be able to:
  Learning Outcome
LO1

Explore the key themes of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990.
LO2

Investigate Sections of The NHS and Community Care Act Implemented by April 1991.
LO3

Evaluate sections of The NHS and Community Care Act Implemented by April 1992.
LO4

Analyse sections of The NHS and Community Care Act Implemented by April 1993.
 
Module 3 – Who Does the Caring.
On successful completion of this module the candidate will be able to:
  Learning Outcome
LO1

Introduce the ‘community’ in community care.
LO2

Explore who does the caring.
LO3

Demonstrate duty and obligation in the family.
LO4

Identify factors which affect caring.
 

Module 4 – Approaches to Working With Users.
On successful completion of this module the candidate will be able to:
  Learning Outcome
LO1

Explore user involvement.
LO2

Introduce a consumerist approach to user involvement.
LO3

Demonstrate a participatory approach to user involvement.
LO4

List the ideas of Paulo Freire.
LO5

Evaluate the process of dealing with tensions and contradictions.
 

Module 5 – Working With Users.
On successful completion of this module the candidate will be able to:
  Learning Outcome
LO1

Introduce self-advocacy and citizen advocacy.
LO2

Explore the notion of relating to 'top people'.
LO3

Analyse some social divisions and community care.
LO4

Define anti-oppressive community care.
LO5

Explore normalisation and anti-oppressive community care.
 

Module 6 – Practising Care Management.
On successful completion of this module the candidate will be able to:
  Learning Outcome
LO1

Introduce care management.
LO2

Explore the background to care management.
LO3

Examine the process of choosing a model of care management.
LO4

Analyse stages of care management.
LO5

Demonstrate stages of care management planning, implementing, monitoring and review.
 

Module 7 – Assessing for Community Care.
On successful completion of this module the candidate will be able to:
  Learning Outcome
LO1

Identify the process of assessment.
LO2

Explore the process of building on previous experience of assessment.
LO3

Introduce learning from government guidance on assessment.
LO4

Define issues about assessing need.
LO5

Explain anti-oppressive assessment.
 

Module 8 – Working in Partnership.
On successful completion of this module the candidate will be able to:
  Learning Outcome
LO1

Introduce evaluation of care management.
LO2

Explain working with networks in care management.
LO3

Explore multi-disciplinary working in care management.
 

Module 9 – Working With Carers.
On successful completion of this module the candidate will be able to:
  Learning Outcome
LO1

Explore who the carers are and what they do.
LO2

Investigate the reality of caring.
LO3

Analyse working with black and ethnic minority carers.
LO4

Demonstrate the process of using the experience of the Birmingham Project (CCSAP) in practice.
 

Module 10 – Working With Mentally Distressed People.
On successful completion of this module the candidate will be able to:
  Learning Outcome
LO1

Explore context and recent developments.
LO2

Evaluate working with users to increase user-involvement and user-empowerment.
LO3

Analyse case management and mental health.
 

Module 11 – Working With Older People.
On successful completion of this module the candidate will be able to:
  Learning Outcome
LO1

Introduce attitudes and platitudes.
LO2

Explore ageing and ageism
LO3

Demonstrate values in practice and the setting of best practice goals.
LO4

Analyse options and choices in old age.
LO5

Investigate working with mental illness.
LO6

Explore the process of becoming a client.
 

Module 12 – Working With Disabled People.
On successful completion of this module the candidate will be able to:
  Learning Outcome
LO1

Introduce disability, disabled people and disablism.
LO2

Explore the provision of needs-led assessments for disabled people and their carers.
LO3

Investigate designing and implementing care plans to meet the needs of disabled people.
LO4

Analyse monitoring and reviewing in evaluating work with disabled people.

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