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Continuing your professional development

Social workers must maintain and develop their knowledge and skills in order to remain on the social care register. We offer a full range of GSCC-approved post-qualifying courses, designed to enable social workers to continue their education and training in a flexible and modular way.

The GSCC post-qualifying framework

Under the GSCC (General Social Care Council) framework of post-qualifying awards, there are three levels for you to progress through, each corresponding to a stage of professional and career development: specialist, higher specialist and advanced level. You can also choose courses from five different areas of practice:

  • Working with adults
  • Working with children and young people, their families and carers
  • Working in mental health services
  • Leadership and management (higher specialist and advanced levels)
  • Practice education (higher specialist and advanced levels).

We offer post-qualifying courses across all levels and areas:

Short courses - another approach to your continuing professional development

In addition to our postgraduate/post-qualifying qualifications, we also offer a number of postgraduate modules on a standalone basis as short courses, allowing you to target and tailor your learning and development in the most appropriate areas for your work. To find out more, visit:

Let us meet your specific development needs

We welcome the opportunity to work with your social care organisation to tailor a programme of learning - from ad-hoc study days to longer term training programmes - that meets your specific needs:

 

Post qualifying programmes in social work overview