Social Work Trainee Apprentice

Apprenticeship Details

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Social Worker (Integrated Degree) (Level 6)

• Ensure professional ethical standards are developed, maintained, and promoted.
• Take responsibility for your decisions and recommendations.
• Be aware of the impact of your own values on practice.
• Exercise authority as a Social Worker within the appropriate legal and ethical frameworks.
• Ensure the highest standard of person-centred approach, so that people are treated with dignity and their rights, values, and autonomy are respected.
• Practise in a non-discriminatory manner.
• Hear the views of people who use services, carers, their families, and communities, recognise their expertise, and enable their views to have validity and influence.
• Promote the best interests of people who use services, carers, their families, and communities.
• Work with people to enable them to make informed decisions and exercise their rights.
• Work to promote individual growth, development, and independence.
• Undertake assessments of need and/or capacity.
• Initiate resolution of issues and use initiative.
• Gather, analyse, critically evaluate, and use research information and knowledge in your practice to develop an understanding of the individual’s situation.
• Make and receive referrals appropriately.
• Use social work methods, theories, and models to enable individuals to identify actions to achieve change and improve life opportunities.
• Manage and weigh up competing/conflicting values or interests to make reasoned professional judgement.
• Work within scope of practice as an autonomous professional.
• Maintain high standards of personal and professional conduct.
• Manage the physical and emotional impact of your practice.
• Identify and apply strategies to build professional and emotional resilience.
• Use supervision to support and enhance the quality of your practice.
• Maintain your own health and well-being.
• Recognise the need to manage workloads and resources effectively.
• Keep your skills, knowledge, and ongoing professional development up to date.
• Show an awareness of current and relevant legislation.
• Use a range of research methodologies to inform your practice.
• Work in partnership with others.
• Balance appropriate levels of autonomy within a complex system of accountability.
• Respond appropriately to unexpected situations, identify and challenge practices which present a risk to, or from, people you are working with, their carers, or others in order to uphold professional requirements.
• Respond appropriately to signs of harm, abuse, and neglect.
• Establish and maintain personal and professional boundaries.
• Follow health and safety policies and procedures.
• Communicate in English at the level required by Social Work England.
• Communicate your role and purpose sensitively and clearly, using appropriate language and methods.
• Communicate in a way which is engaging, respectful, motivating, and effective, even when dealing with conflict or resistance to change.
• Exercise professional curiosity.
• Have difficult conversations with empathy.
• Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills.
• Engage with individuals and their families/carers and sustain effective relationships in order to effect change.
• Engage effectively in inter-professional and inter-agency working to achieve positive outcomes.
• Support networks, groups, and communities to meet needs and outcomes.
• Maintain accurate and complete records in accordance with applicable legislation, protocols, and guidelines.
• Prepare formal reports in line with legislation, policies, and procedures.
• Critically reflect on/review practice and record the outcomes of reflection appropriately.
• Present reports in formal settings.
• Use technology to manage your work.
• Use technology to communicate appropriately.
• Maintain individuals’ information security and protect data.
• Advise people on how to use assistive technology.
• Promote the use of technology to achieve better outcomes.