SHN5152 - Professional Development and Placement 2

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:

Identify principles of effective interpersonal relationships and team working.
Demonstrate knowledge of professional skills.
Reflect on personal strengths and weaknesses and understand appraisal schemes in employment.
Evaluate and reflect on the work experience gained and demonstrate understanding of the limits of knowledge and skills in this context.
Demonstrate and reflect on the qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment requiring the exercise of personal responsibility and decision-making.
Demonstrate satisfactory performance across the pre-placement preparation, placement and post-placement periods.

Content:

The detailed nature of the placement will be the subject of a learning agreement between the student, the ‘host’ organisation or project, and the university.

Students will undertake a professional development pre placement programme: interpersonal skills, team working, personal career planning and networking with peers and employers.

The placement will be 6 weeks full time at a single or dual host organization(s) and may be organised by the student, subject to that agreement, or by the university. Alternatively, the placement will be matched to the student by the university careers and employability service. The work placement will be overseen by a work-base mentor and a university based personal tutor and will be required to meet a set of specific criteria relating to, for example, duration, type of activity, relevance to programme of study, supervision.

Students will undertake a professional preparation programme, together with any specific training, selection or security checks (such as CRB).

Students will complete a critically reflective report based on their experience in the workplace, detailing appraisals and skills developed along with details of projects students have been involved in.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lectures, workshops and tutorials comprise the preparation programme.

Students will be supported and required to use a range of established techniques to initiate and undertake critical analysis of information, and to propose solutions to problems arising from that analysis; effectively communicate information, arguments, and analysis, in a variety of forms, to specialist and non-specialist audiences, and deploy relevant techniques to solve problems; undertake further training, develop existing skills, and acquire new competences that will enable them to assume appropriate levels of responsibility within the organisation.

Lectures/workshops
Contact hours: 13
Intended Group size: 100

Tutorials – Progress tutor
Contact hours: 2
Intedned Group size: 100

Tutorials – Placement mentor
Contact hours: 2
Intrended Group size: 100

Placement hours
Contact hours: 216

Guided Independent Study
Hours: 140

Other relevant matters
• Exceptionally, and with the agreement of the module coordinator, a student may request a change from this module to the Volunteering in SHN module. The student must have arranged a suitable host organization to complete 60 hours of voluntary activity and had it agreed by EPO by the last Level 5 teaching week before Christmas.
• The 216 hours of work experience should be over a 6 weeks period, based on working 37 hour weeks. • Normally, the Progress Tutor will be the university based mentor unless a department wishes to allocate a single tutor.
• Students will be required to report their progress to the Module Coordinator/mentor at regular intervals and may be visited by the mentor.
• Travel expenses should be negotiated with the Module Coordinator. Any expenses agreed will be less the amount of a Metro Travel Card of 6 weeks duration (equivalent to the Professional Development and Placement module).
• Pass / Fail of the placement itself will be allocated based on the student’s performance and is at the discretion of the organization mentor in addition to the university based mentor.
• Based on the pre and post placement assessments, all students registering for this module will receive a numeric mark factored into degree classification.

Assessment:

001 Placement portfolio 4000 words 1 week after placement 100%
002 Practical Performance Pass/Fail during placement 0%


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