Student Social Worker Placement
Providing students with unique and quality learning opportunities in social work
Placement training & social work learning opportunities
Norden Hills Family Centre provides student placement training and social work learning opportunities in a complex environment which is focused on high profile and child protection work, significant interagency liaison, working in multi-disciplinary teams, offering to develop knowledge and skills in relation to working with children and adults with particular needs as well as developing expertise around issues of parenting.
Ethos
Our ethos is to work towards keeping families together as this is in the child’s interests. We aim to be child focused at all times but to support families to effect change and to work with respect and to treat them with dignity at all times. The staff and client group is extremely diverse and service users may have English as a second language and have complex immigration issues; assessments often have aspects of cultural sensitivity; Students must have a strong commitment to Anti-oppressive practice.
Got Any Questions
Norden Hills Family Centre is pleased to be able to offer practice placement directly to university students. For more details, please get in touch with us or give us a call.