This course will result in you becoming a JNC professionally qualified Youth & Community Worker subject to successful validation. We aim to help you understand how you can work effectively, and from a theoretically informed basis, with young people and communities both face-to-face and from a strategic perspective too. Throughout the course you will develop critical thinking and critical reflection skills which will then be applied to ‘real life’ situations through your fieldwork practice. You will undertake 800 hours of supervised fieldwork practice in a broad range of Youth and Community Work settings. This will enable you to develop your own professional skills, understanding and reputation in the field throughout your studies. Youth and Community Work at Newman is taught by a team of JNC qualified, experienced and enthusiastic tutors that have an excellent reputation for supporting students and established strong partnerships with local employers. You will also benefit from mixing with students from a variety of backgrounds and prior learning experiences. **Why study Youth and Community Work?** - Newman is one of the few professional youth and community work courses in the West Midlands. Holding the professional qualification means that you will be recognised nationally as a professional youth worker in the UK. - Studying with us at Newman will provide you with a broad range of fieldwork practice experiences in both the statutory and voluntary sectors in projects including young people and mental health, centre-based youth projects, detached youth projects, homelessness projects and addiction issues. In all contexts, you will be supported to demonstrate your application of theory in practice directly with young people and communities – ‘hands-on’ learning. - You will benefit from being taught by a fully qualified, research-active teaching team all of whom have direct experience in the field both regionally, nationally and internationally. - You can expect a challenging and supportive learning environment as the Youth and Community Work team has an excellent reputation for supporting students throughout their studies.

Modules will cover: Year 1 - Applied Reflective Practice; Independent Learner; Reflective Practice; Principles and practice of youth and community work; Thinking Sociologically, psychologically and politically or Religions and Politics in Contemporary Britain; Working with communities; Group work and Understanding self. Year 2 Applied reflective practice 2; Research skills; Supervision studies; Critical pedagogy; Intersectionality; Y& C W in context or Issues in Contemporary Ethics; The social, political and psychological construction of youth. Year 3 - Youth Worker as Researcher; Professional studies; Advanced critical practice; Negotiating and managing educational programmes; Management and safeguarding; plus options in Youth and Crime, Spirituality, Global and International Youth work; Mysticism East and West or Holistic Education or Virtues and Values. Some modules are mandatory and some are optional.

Assessment Methods are not listed for this Course.

Joint Negotiating Committee for Youth and Community Workers

26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Course code: L530

Institution code: N36

Campus Name: Newman University

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The following entry points are available for this course:

Year 1

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.

5 GCSEs at grade 4 (or C) or above including English Language or a recognised equivalent, are also required. Those who have studied youth work though FE, local authority or voluntary organisation work based learning courses (e.g. Level 2 Introduction to Youth Work, Level 3 Foundation in Youth Work) may be accepted at a lower level than that stated above. Exceptionally those who have no qualifications will be accepted if they have considerable experience of youth work (normally 300 hours verified by the employer(s) concerned) and have satisfactorily completed the written exercise. Interview Process As part of the conditions of our professional endorsement, we interview all students. This is a four-stage process. All students begin by applying through UCAS. Applications received by the Admissions Team are then reviewed and those meeting the criteria are called to interview. The interview process consists of 1) An introduction to the course and the college, 2) A group discussion (part of assessing aptitude to becoming a worker and ability to function and conceptualise at degree level), 3) An unseen written exercise (part of assessing both academic ability and aptitude to becoming a worker) 4) An individual interview (part of assessing aptitude to becoming a worker and ability to function and conceptualise at a degree level).

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Student satisfaction : 85%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 0%

Go onto work and study: 0%

England	9250.0	Year 1
Northern Ireland	9250.0	Year 1
Scotland	9250.0	Year 1
Wales	9250.0	Year 1
Channel Islands	9250.0	Year 1

Fees shown are for 2021/22 academic year. The University will review tuition fees and increase fees in line with any inflationary uplift as determined by the UK Government, if permitted by law or government policy, on enrolment and in subsequent years of your course. It is anticipated that such increases would be linked to RPI (the Retail Price Index excluding mortgage interest payments). Additional cost information associated with undergraduate degrees can be found at https://www.newman.ac.uk/knowledge-base/additional-costs-for-undergraduate-courses/

Genners Lane
Bartley Green
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Birmingham
B32 3NT