Children, Young People and Families Practitioners

Children, Young People and Families Practitioner CertHE is aimed at those wanting to enter a career in this field or wish to enhance their existing professional knowledge and experience within the sector. This programme would especially suit those working within the community sector, particularly in a voluntary capacity and want to gain paid employment within the field.

This course has been designed in collaboration with local employers in the children, young people and families sector. Because of this, you will have the opportunity to engage with the challenges faced by organisations and how the professionals working in the sector respond to social issues and deliver services.

This programme will also give you a critical understanding of the theoretical concepts, approaches and principles of working within the children, young people and families sector. Similarly, you will better understand the rights, responsibilities and needs of children, young people and families in order to promote equality, diversity, inclusion and safeguarding. Additionally, you will develop a range of intellectual, subject-specific and transferrable skills that will boost your employability.

This course is also available as an Apprenticeship:

The programme has been designed to provide traditional classroom learning within a university setting to achieve 6x 20 credit modules. The programme structure includes the delivery of modules that allow for completion in one academic year. All students take a total of 120 credits.

Level 4 modules include:

Ethical, Legal and Professional Responsibilities
Health and Wellbeing
Early Childhood, Adolescent and Adult Development
Working with Families and Professionals
Excellence in Children, Young People and Family Practice
Integrated Multi-Agency Working
All modules are mandatory.

Assessment will be undertaken through a range of established methodologies at various stages throughout the student learning experience. You will be offered a variety of ways to be assessed in meeting the learning outcomes, however, we also have an alternative assessment policy to make reasonable adjustments for any assessment method that does not meet your learning needs.

The assessment methods incorporate standard practices through initial, diagnostic, formative and summative stages. Examples of assessment activity includes:

Essays

The requirements of Level 4 study will include producing essays that assess the learning outcomes. You will be supported with your academic writing through academic tutorials and study skills workshops.

Seminars

Debates and discussions are an engaging way to learn about different positions on key theoretical issues so each module includes a seminar component for you to carry out your own research and engage in debates and discussions about key topics.

Reports

You will need to produce reports for some of your assessments. This assessment method is useful to develop the skills important for professionals working in the sector.

Group presentations

Group presentations are aimed at encouraging working with others to meet deadlines so you will work with your peers in completing some assessment tasks.

Peer assessment

Each module will offer you the opportunity to be prepared for your summative assessment. You will complete a range of formative tasks including receiving and providing feedback to other students on some tasks.

Workplace reflection

It is crucial that your learning on all modules is linked to the workplace, so some assessments will include using critical reflection to evaluate the relevance of learning outcomes to practice settings.

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS