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:
- View details of our post-qualifying courses online
- Download our brochure: Post-qualifying programmes in social work - overview
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 see CPPD.
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:
