Study Guide

Objective

You identify areas for development in client work, services and working community and you know the methods of development work in your practical training place.

You become familiar with the quality system for the services and work community as well as with the superior work and management system in your practical training place.

You learn about advocacy work in your practical training place and understand its meaning.

You are able to manage yourself as a work community member by promoting wellbeing at work.

You are able to asses your professional competence in a many-sides and critical way. You reflect your activities of professional ethics as a bachelor of social services taking into account your career plans.

Content

What development needs do you identify in the client work, services and work community of your practical training place?

What models and methods of development work are applied in your practical training place?

How is the quality of the work community and its services managed and assessed?

What is the quality management system like in your practical training place?

What is the content of supervisor’s work description at your internship organisation?

What are the duties and responsibilities of the supervisor?

How you describe the management system at your internship organization?

In what different ways is the advocacy work carried out at your internship organization?

Why advocacy work is carried out?

How do you use your self-management skills in such a way that it contributes to the wellbeing of your work community?

What strengths and areas of development do you see in your own professional competence from the perspectives of development work, advocacy work and activities in the work community?

What do you consider are most important issues when reflecting on your future career as a bachelor of social services from a professional ethics perspective? Why?

Qualifications

Practical training periods must be completed in the order specified in the curriculum.