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  • Unit Title

    Field Placement 2

  • Unit Code

    SWK4116

  • Year

    2026

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    4

  • Credit Points

    45

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Gemma Louise MARTIN

Description

Field Placement 2 comprises of two components: a supervised Social Work practice placement of 500 hours and academic study. This unit addresses the accreditation and practice standards of the Australian Association of Social Workers. Students demonstrate their integration of academic study within the context of participation in a professional community of practice setting. Student learning builds on and consolidates practice skills and knowledge from a previous placement. Student skills, knowledge and values for Social Work practice are further developed through the use of professional supervision on placement, supportive university liaison officers and formal integration sessions. Due to the experiential and active participation requirements of this unit, new enrolments are not accepted after the end of week 2 of the teaching period.

Prerequisite Rule

The following units must be completed with a PASS or above grade before going on placement: SWK3116 - Field Placement 1, SWK4111 - Social Work Theory and Practice 3: Collective Interventions and SWK4106 - Social Policy or SWK4110 - Legal and Ethical Practice

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SWK4115

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply social work practice skills in the context of the agency setting using empirical and theoretical knowledge.
  2. Appraise the legislative and policy context of the placement agency's work.
  3. Assess the interaction between person, situation and context as a function that shapes social and individual problems.
  4. Collaborate with clients and colleagues to fulfill the functions of a social worker's role, within an organisational context.
  5. Apply professional judgement in the context of ethical dilemmas that arise during placement using supervision to enable self-monitoring, self-regulation and reflection.

Unit Content

  1. Communication skills for working effectively in teams in agency settings.
  2. Contemporary social work practice environments.
  3. Exploring the social work role.
  4. Models of reflective practice.
  5. Planning for a social work career.
  6. Professional and personal boundaries.
  7. Types of supervision.
  8. Values identification, relevant social work knowledge and skill development through field placement and supervision.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Field placement, an online learning environment and on-campus or on-line integration seminars.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Practicum ^Field placement
Portfolio ^Learning Links
ONLINE
TypeDescription
Practicum ^Field placement
Portfolio ^Learning Links

^ Mandatory to Pass

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

  • Plagiarism: Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).
  • Unauthorised collaboration (collusion): Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).
  • Contract cheating: Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.
  • Cheating in an exam: Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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