Placement Learning Plan for Social Work Students

The placement learning plan is for social work students to identify key goals in learning that they should accomplish when they get placed in the placement areas. The plan is an exercise of placement agreed upon between field instructors, students in consultation with consultants of faculty. The plan is designed to help students expand their skills further of assessment, values such as value conflicts and awareness and knowledge such as the concepts to be applied in various problems of practice.

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The purpose of the placement learning plan is for students to identify key goals in
learning that students should accomplish when they get placed in the placement areas. The
learning objectives normally come from the understanding of knowledge, the self, values and
skills that have been developed to the present times (Jokelainen, Jamookeeah, Tossavainen, &
Turunen, 2013). The goals of learning can be in the form of expanding skills further of
assessment, values such as value conflicts and awareness and knowledge such as the concepts to
be applied in various problems of practice. The plan is an exercise of placement agreed upon
between field instructors, students in consultation with consultants of faculty (Rusch, Hughes,
Agran, Martin, & Johnson, 2009).
I have been placed and work in a community centre. The centre offers services that
include adult education in such areas as IT classes, English classes, art and craft classes and
cooking classes and sewing classes. Issues that are related to these learning areas get sorted out
in the place too. The centre also organizes food parcels for the disadvantaged groups of people
including asylum seekers and refugees. There is the provision of multicultural lunch once in a
week besides other services to the people. The following is an analysis of skills from the centre
and the various ways that the skills or knowledge is to be demonstrated.
Tasks for Learning Area 6 How will you demonstrate your knowledge/skill?
6.1 Demonstrates the appropriate
initiative, responsibility, reliability,
and accountability within the job
setting;
 Completing tasks that have been assigned
by the employer in the job setting.
 Performing the duties that the job requires
and to be available during working shifts so
that goals of the organization are fulfilled
or achieved.

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 Doing what the job requires with minimum
supervision or being followed here and
there.
 Being productive in the area of work since
the organization requires the services of
being an employee.
 Performing certain tasks that help the
organization achieve given objectives even
without waiting to be assigned such a duty.
6.2 Demonstrates the ability of
participating proactively towards the
negotiation and development of the
Field Educatory relationship
 Calling upon the stakeholders in the
education field and applying negotiation
skills to discuss matters relating the field.
6.3 Demonstrates the commitment and
initiative for arranging the social
work involving Field Educatory
sessions
 Making sure that the various departments
related to field educatory services work
together to ensure students learn and
practice about social works
6.4 Demonstrates the willingness of
taking the appropriate risks,
identifying personal feelings as well
as experiences so that the practice
can be exposed to scrutiny by the
Field Educator
 Learning the experiences and feelings from
individuals, risks involved in field
placements and helping the field educators
in analysing the risks involved and setting
solutions.
6.5 Demonstrates abilities in engaging
in reflections on practices that
involve supervision and field
practice such as examining personal
and professional values influencing
the practice
 Carrying out supervisory tasks that involve
field practice and placement of students.
 Analysing values affecting practice helps
solve potential issues that may arise.
6.6 Demonstrates the capacity to work
with increasing autonomy and
professional responsibility
 Making decisions responsibly without
being followed, on matters relating to
social work.
6.7 Demonstrates the capability of
locating and discussing issues on
emerging practice and relating them to
current literature
 Carrying out research on issues that make
people seek help in social work community
centres by interviewing such people as
asylum seekers and refugees.
 Conducting literature reviews so that I do
result analysis about the issues and see how
possible such issues can be mitigated
towards the wellness of the people in the
society.

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6.8 Identifies learning areas and
development as well as recognizing the
importance of social work for future
professional development
 Operating a centre for community service
that supports social work and service to
humanity.
 Identifying and starting a centre that serves
people in need like entrepreneurs start their
own businesses out of experiences they get
from working in businesses.
 Helping students to learn from the
community centre through learning
placements so that they also gain relevant
skills.
6.9 Demonstrates the capacity in
sharing professional and personal
knowledge including experience
appropriately.
 Sharing what has been learnt from the
placement centre to others.
 Passing on what is learnt to fellow students,
employees and the other people in general.
 Sharing the experience gained with fellow
workers by being a working example to
them depending on the job expectations.
 Mentoring fellow workers and friends on
matters that pertains the job.
Tasks for Learning Area 7 How will you demonstrate your knowledge/skill?
7.1Demonstrate needs analysis and
assessment to inform the services being
offered through:
 An ability to carry out
multidimensional assessments in the
most collaborative way with groups,
individuals, communities and
families across diversified range of
circumstances
 Collaborating with local leaders in a given
community that is faced by a social issue or
circumstances to seek solutions to the various
problems facing the people in the community.
 Starting a social work group with a future
objective of making it grow into NGO (non-
governmental organization) that targets the
less privileged in the community.
 Sensitizing the international community on
improving the way of life of people.
 An ability to assess and identify the
protective or risk factors as well as
integrating them into the assessment
formulation
 Involving various stakeholders in the social set
up. These include church leaders, school
heads; village heads health centre
professionals and social work program
leaders.
 Carrying out group discussions and meetings
to air out the risks factors and protective
measures.
 Sensitizing these stakeholders of the need for
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mitigation for these risk factors in the
community.
7.2Demonstrates the application of
specific social work interventions and
methods of referral appropriately and
collaboratively to the areas of social
practice through:
 Evidence-informed practices
towards working to address family,
individual, groups’ and community
needs and goals.
 Doing research that relate to the achievement
of goals to the groups, families, individuals
and the entire community.
 Asking a clinically guiding question,
searching for some evidence, appraising the
evidence critically, integration of the evidence
into the clinical evidence of the individual,
evidence based practice outcome evaluation
and outcome dissemination.
 An understanding on empowering
as well as non-oppressive methods
of practice and their challenge on
systemic and policy injustices while
enacting change through methods
like social action, research,
evaluation and advocacy .
 Sensitizing the local people on the need to
practice and apply methods that are non-
oppressive and empower them through
training.
 Ensuring that people get skills they can apply
and earn to support the economy rather than
engaging in such operations that interfere with
peace of the community.
 the ability of working
collaboratively with different teams
and agencies across jurisdictions at
a policy or practice level
 Identifying social community gaps to be filled
up and then looking for their solutions from
the various stakeholders available across the
jurisdiction.
 Identifying support services and their
resources and attaching them to the
stakeholders with the potential to offer them.
 Carrying out consultation services with the
relevant bodies able to carry out certain duties
in the social work operation.
 the ability of developing
intervention plans that contain
planned outcomes, collaborative
goals and review mechanisms
 Choosing problem behaviour of change after
considerable analysis and measuring the
behaviour through data collection.
 Determining the problem behaviour function
that is followed by the creation of assessment
criteria of the functional behaviour.
 Creating a behaviour plan and then teaching
the alternative behaviour to the relevant key
personnel who may involve stakeholders.
Tasks for Learning Area 8 How will you demonstrate your knowledge/skill?
8.2 Demonstrates the ability of
contributing to organization-based
 Making sure that I indicate the skill in the

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studies curriculum vitae while applying for job.
 Working in the research department so that I
can apply the skills learnt about research.
 Doing research since every organization needs
to know much about the state of the market,
research is essential to the business and needs
to be done by skilled personnel.
 Getting to the field to look for the relevant
information about what the organization
needs.
 Applying the skills learnt from the placement
plan on data collection methodologies such as
interviews and surveys to get the data.
8.3 Ability of identifying researchable
issues or topics relevant to the setting in
practice such as the ability of
suggesting methodologies of
appropriate research as well as ways of
utilizing and disseminating the findings
of research
 Being an active member of a company
research team that has the responsibility of
doing research for the business.
 Helping the business team to make good
choices of what research methods are good for
particular types of studies and research
objectives (Thomas, 2010).
 Identifying where and how to disseminate the
findings based on the objectives and goals of
the company.
 Working well as research consultant for the
organization so that I can be reached when
issues related to research come up.
8.4 Demonstrates the ability of
seeking out as well as establishing
collaborative partnerships or networks,
with others who work in the same field
or related fields, so that relevant
information is obtained
 Forming networks using the media platforms
such as the Facebook, WhatSapp, Twitter or
any other so that people interested in forming
partnerships in matters related to field can be
communicating one on one concerning issues
in the field.
 Being the team leader in such groups so that I
coordinate activities in the field and manage
what the group should share or not.
Tasks for Learning Area 9 How will you demonstrate your knowledge/skill?
 9.1 Critically reflects on one’s
personal values, subjectivity, social
locations, beliefs, cultures or racial
identifications and how they impact
on;
 Applying skills such as subjectivity, culture,
personal values and their impact on different
elements in the job to enhance harmony.
 Being aware that these personal elements are
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i. the interaction among
service users, community
members, supervisors and
colleagues
ii. on organisational practices
and policies
the business and enforcing this fact.
 Choosing to interact well with people by
relating well with service users, members in
the community, supervisors and colleagues in
general.
 Helping make people abide to these social
norms of socialization for positive results.
 9.2 Demonstrates the knowledge on
diversity among different cultures
that include ethnicity, economic
status, disability, faiths and beliefs,
age, gender, sexuality and
transgender
 organizing sensitization campaigns talking on
issues such disability, sexuality, faiths and
beliefs, age and economic status and how
people need to behave in any social set up
including families, schools, churches and work
places.
 Helping people to recognize the fact that we
are unique and that we need to accommodate
each other with the various needs towards a
good social life.
 9.3 Applies critically reflective
practices that include service users
and peer, supervision and feedback,
that guard against one’s racial
complications and prejudices and
being open to hear the information
from people of culturally diverse
backgrounds
 Accepting to live with all sorts of people in the
society by responding positively to almost
everything that comes my way regardless of
whether it is positive or negative.
 Ensuring that personal behaviour does not
affect the way people live in the community.
 Sensitizing people on integrating different
cultures to achieve a common goal in the
community is key and this determines how
people live together in peace.

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