Welcome to the Foundation Degree Working with Children, Young People and Families, Work Based Learning website
A warm welcome to the Sheffield Hallam University Foundation Degree Working with Children, Young People and Families Work Based Learning website which has been designed to provide easily accessible information about all aspects of work based learning for both students and placement providers.
The Foundation Degree Working with Children Young People and Families is designed to provide the foundation for a range of careers working with children, young people and families.
Work Based Learning placements occur in year one and year two of the course and students are placed in a wide range of settings in the statutory, voluntary, and private sectors for example, schools, children’s centres, nurseries, family support services etc. Placements are highly valued and provide a crucial element of your course in that they offer you the opportunity to observe and learn from skilled professionals, to develop your values, skills, knowledge, competence and to put into practice the theories you are taught in University.
Students are advised that they must follow their placement provider's policies and guidelines at all times while on placement.
Contacting the Working with Children, Young People and Families Team
If you need to contact a member of the Working with Children, Young People and Families Team, you can find email and telephone contact details here.
Support for Students on Work Based Learning Placements
Year one modules are designed to introduce students to some of the key skills and Knowledge required by practitioners working with children, young people and families, for example, safeguarding, assessment and communication and are specifically designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills and values to support their first work based learning experience and to enable them to identify links between academic learning and practice. Work Based Learning One placements occur in semester two of year one.
Year two modules are specifically designed to continue to build on the knowledge, skills and experience gained in year one and include the Work Based Learning Two placement which occurs in semester one of year two.
The Foundation Degree is designed to ensure that graduates are able to operate as critically reflective and evidence-based practitioners able to respond to a rapidly changing context and who are equipped with the knowledge, skills and competence which are required to meet professional standards of practice and which support ongoing academic and career development.
Covid-19 Advice
Students are advised that they must follow their placement provider's policies and guidelines at all times while on placement in relation to Covid processes and reporting. This includes adhering to your placement provider's guidance on Covid testing, contact tracing and reporting, in addition to meticulous hand hygiene and use of PPE. Please be mindful of how your actions outside placement could put yourself, your colleagues and service users at risk - use face coverings, maintain social distance and reduce contacts outside your household in accordance with current government advice.
If you attend your placement while you have symptoms of covid-19 you will put clients and staff at risk of Covid-19 infection.
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Students are advised that they must follow their placement provider's policies and guidelines at all times while on placement in relation to Covid processes and reporting. This includes adhering to your placement provider's guidance on Covid testing, contact tracing and reporting, in addition to meticulous hand hygiene and use of PPE.
Covid-19 Immunisations - Important advice for all students in relation to placement learning
A significant number of our placement providers expect their staff to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and these placements require all students who attend placement in their organisation also to be fully vaccinated. Any delays in ensuring that you are fully vaccinated could prevent you from commencing a placement.
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