This professionally validated course will leave you a qualified, experienced and employable youth and community worker. The Youth Work & Community Practice course is a new, exciting, innovative development taught via block learning, with placement opportunities available throughout the course. The course can be studied online, making it flexible and achievable for someone working in the field. You will have the opportunity to study modules relating to young people in sport, or young people’s mental health, in addition to core modules in youth work and community practice making it a relevant and modern course. The course has been developed closely with the team from CVCL, offering placements and opportunities in over 300 voluntary sector organisations and benefiting from the expertise of a team that has working with the voluntary sector for over twenty years. In addition to the JNC Professional Qualification, you can gain a range of other awards through the course. These may include the following – - First aid at work - Writing risk assessments - Safeguarding - Sports coaching qualifications - Mentoring - Counselling skills The course is also directly linked to the Journal of Community Research, you will have the opportunity to submit a research paper to this peer reviewed journal. **Why study with us?** - On completion of this degree, you’ll be a fully qualified youth worker with a nationally recognised professional qualification.- - This course has been carefully developed by youth work employers and professionals to ensure students are fully prepared for youth work employment after graduation. - Our excellent industry links will give you placement opportunities that will support your career aspirations. **What you'll do** You’ll be taught b- y an experienced course team that have come from Youth Work or Community Practice backgrounds and have experience in youth work, youth justice, child sexual exploitation, international community work, leadership, action research, mentoring, homelessness, environmentalism, mental health and sports development. - In addition to your degree, you will also receive a CPD award in safeguarding, a CPD award in writing risk assessments, a first aid at work qualification and will have the opportunity to complete an ILM in Mentoring. - You’ll be taught in a learning environment that will be very practical, with assessments created to be as practical and useful as possible. You will undertake placements in Youth Work or Community Practice throughout the course and will be expected to complete assessments which will affect policy and practice in those organisations.

Year One - Placement 1 Youth Work - Policy, Practice and Legislation - Safeguarding & Child Protection - Communication in Practice - Youth Dialogue - Exploring Modern Youth Work - Year Two - Placement 2 Youth Work - Contemporary Issues for Young People - Theory & Practice of Youth and Community Work - Psychology of Youth & Community - Youth Development (Optional) - School & Community Sports Development (Optional) - Perspectives on Mental Health (Optional) – Year Three - Placement 3 Youth Work – Dissertation - Managing Difficult Situations in Youth and Community Work - Equality, Diversity & Anti-Oppressive Practice

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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: C30

Campus Name: Burnley Campus

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Year 1

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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

*subject only to annual increase in line with UK Retail Price Index inflation rate

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