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BA (Hons)

Youth Work & Community Practice

Attendance

Campus

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Duration

3 Years

Start

September 2023

UCAS Code

L530

Delivery

Campus Taught

Foundation entry

This professionally validated course will leave you a qualified, experienced and employable youth and community worker.

The Youth Work & Community Practice course is a new, exciting, innovative development taught via block learning, with placement opportunities available throughout the course.

The course is delivered via block learning, making it flexible and achievable for someone working in the field.

You will have the opportunity to study modules relating to young people in sport, or young people’s mental health, in addition to core modules in youth work and community practice making it a relevant and modern course.

The course has been developed closely with the team from CVCL, offering placements and opportunities in over 300 voluntary sector organisations and benefiting from the expertise of a team that has working with the voluntary sector for over twenty years.

In addition to the JNC Professional Qualification, you can gain a range of other awards through the course. These may include the following –

First aid at work
Writing risk assessments
Safeguarding
Sports coaching qualifications
Mentoring
Counselling skills

The course is also directly linked to the Journal of Community Research, you will have the opportunity to submit a research paper to this peer reviewed journal.

Why study with us

On completion of this degree, you’ll be a fully qualified youth worker with a nationally recognised professional qualification.
This course has been carefully developed by youth work employers and professionals to ensure students are fully prepared for youth work employment after graduation.
Our excellent industry links will give you placement opportunities that will support your career aspirations.

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What you'll do

You’ll be taught by an experienced course team that have come from Youth Work or Community Practice backgrounds and have experience in youth work, youth justice, child sexual exploitation, international community work, leadership, action research, mentoring, homelessness, environmentalism, mental health and sports development.
In addition to your degree, you will also receive a CPD award in safeguarding, a CPD award in writing risk assessments, a first aid at work qualification and will have the opportunity to complete an ILM in Mentoring.
You’ll be taught in a learning environment that will be very practical, with assessments created to be as practical and useful as possible. You will undertake placements in Youth Work or Community Practice throughout the course and will be expected to complete assessments which will affect policy and practice in those organisations.

Module overview

Course delivery

This course is taught face-to-face at one of our UK campuses.

100%Face-to-face

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.

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Accreditations

This course is professionally accredited by the JNC. They recognise youth and community workers' qualifications which have been professionally approved by the Education Training Standards (ETS) Committee of the National Youth Agency. They endorse youth support worker qualifications and have a process of professional validation for higher education programmes.

Future careers

After completing this course, students will be able to move directly into a wide range of careers including, but not limited to, youth work, teaching assistant, teaching (with the addition of a PGCE), community activism, local charity work, housing association work, working with young offenders, social care, social work (with additional qualifications), sports coaching, sports development, learning support and community policing

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Fees and funding

2022/23

Full-time£9250 per year

Part-time£1540 per 20 credits

International

Full-time£14250 per year

2023/24

Full-time£9,250 per year

Part-time£1,540 per 20 credits

International

Full-time£14,900 per year

Scholarships and bursaries

We have a wide range of scholarships, bursaries and funds available to help support you whilst studying with us.

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The course is linked to over three hundred community partners across the country meaning you will have the opportunity to complete placements in areas that are exciting and interesting.

The course leader is engaged in innovative research with young people and is a member of the Centre for Young People’s Participation at UCLan. The course team are all members of The Professional Association of Lecturers in Youth and Community Work and active members of The National Council of Voluntary Organisations, our links are current and wide ranging and mean you will be being taught by tutors with access to the latest in policy developments and research.

The programme will give you a wealth of experience and knowledge, leaving you prepared for employment on graduation.

The learning environment will be very practical, with assessments created to be as practical and useful as possible, students will undertake placements in Youth Work or Community Practice throughout their course and will be expected to complete assessments which will affect policy and practice in those organisations. All the course team have come from Youth Work or Community Practice backgrounds and have experience in youth work, youth justice, child sexual exploitation, international community work, leadership, action research, mentoring, homelessness, environmentalism, mental health and sports development.

The course leader is Jenny Lamb, whose research interest lies with young people who are NEET (not in education, employment or training). You will also be taught by Dr Ridwanah Gurjee who is a leading expert on the impact of mentoring and Yasmeen Ali who has extensive experience running international youth leadership conferences and whose research on the impact of peer to peer leadership has been published recently.