Advanced Child and Family Social Work

Coventry University has been providing social work CPD (Continuous Professional Development) courses and modules to local employers Coventry University has been providing social work CPD (Continuous Professional Development) courses and modules to local employers for many years and has prominent links with nearby local authorities and voluntary sector organisations.

This Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) in Advanced Child and Family Social Work is designed for social workers who have completed their social work pre-registration training, are in employment, and are wishing to enhance their career prospects via gaining a postgraduate level qualification. Opportunities may also be available within the faculty to progress your studies beyond the PgCert to a full master’s degree (subject to successfully completing the PG Cert and application).

This course aims to enables you as a social worker to develop your career from early social work practice through to teaching, mentoring and assessing others. It has been designed to enable you to develop your practice, extend your range of skills, enhance your critical reflective skills and thus improve service delivery.

It is offered via a blended learning approach and is intended to be a key vehicle for social workers to gain an academic award on successful completion whilst at the same time as meeting your CPD, which is required by the current regulator.

The curriculum for the course aims to allow for you to meet the Practice Educator Professional Standards (PEPS) stage 1 requirements where you should begin to form some knowledge of the role of teaching and mentoring others as you develop your social work career in more senior positions.

An additional module on this qualification route - Advanced Critical Practice: Child and Family - will focus on enhancing your knowledge in children and families social work practice. All modules are mandatory.