PgDip Social Work (Integrated Degree Apprenticeship)
University of SunderlandSunderland, United Kingdom
Course overview
The PgDip Social Work (Integrated Degree Apprenticeship) equips you with the knowledge, skills, and professional experience needed to make a meaningful impact in people's lives. This course blends rigorous academic study with practical placements, ensuring you learn in both classroom and real-world settings. You’ll engage with service users, carers, and experienced practitioners, gaining first-hand insight into the realities of social work practice.
Our teaching team, alongside guest speakers and lived experience sessions, brings the challenges and rewards of the profession to life. Throughout the course, you’ll connect theory with practice, developing essential competencies in assessment, intervention, and professional decision-making. Graduates are well-prepared to work across a variety of settings, including local authorities, NHS Trusts, schools, residential care, voluntary organisations, and private agencies.
In addition to eligibility for professional registration, you’ll enhance
Key highlights
- Integrated degree apprenticeship combining academic study with practical placements
- Learning alongside service users, carers and experienced practitioners
- Guest speakers and lived experience sessions bring practice to life
- Develops competencies in assessment, intervention and professional decision-making
- Leads to eligibility for professional registration as a social worker
Entry requirements
- IELTS: 6 — 6.0 IELTS 6.0 overall (minimum 5.5 in each component) — standard University of Sunderland requirement (source: sunderland.ac.uk/how-to-apply/english-language-requirements)
Scholarships
We Care Postgraduate Bursary
The We Care Postgraduate Bursary awards £2,500 cash to eligible postgraduate students.
Up to £2,500
Careers this course leads to
- Registered Social Worker
- Local Authority Social Worker
- NHS Social Worker
- School Social Worker
- Residential Care Social Worker
- Voluntary Sector Social Worker
Admission
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to University of Sunderland, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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