42 months (Including EPA)
October and January
Level 6
BSc (Hons) Social Work
Our Social Work Degree Apprenticeship aims to prepare you for a career as a qualified social worker, a varied, complex, and challenging profession. As a social worker, you will work with individuals, families, and communities across all fields of social work and social work settings.
This level 6 apprenticeship aims to develop your ability to apply knowledge and skills to real-world situations. You'll be able to learn how work towards peoples' best interests, recognising them as individuals and seeing the differences across diverse communities. Additionally, you can build knowledge around frameworks, and select and use them to assess, give meaning to, plan, implement, and review effective interventions as well as evaluating outcomes in partnership with service users.
This course is designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive. You'll be taught by industry experts, with a university tutor and a workplace supervisor/practice educator in a supportive and inclusive environment. We'll also help you to apply your new skills and behaviours to your place of work.
As an apprentice, your learning can take place across a range of settings. This will typically involve work-based learning and placements three days a week, day-release for university study and distance learning once a week, and protected study days once a week. You may also have opportunities to attend workshops, conferences, placement support, interprofessional learning events, and one-to-one personal and professional development.
When studying on your university day, learning can be in the form of applied or blended learning, as well as a range of assessment methods.
Your protected learning time can be spent at university, work, or placements. Some may be formally timetabled, but others can be used by you to meet your learning needs through activities such as insight days, shadowing, additional training, research, and personal study. Progress reviews may also be done within this time.
Your practice days can be spent by carrying supervised social work practice either in your main place of work or in a complementary setting to give you a broader experience of social work.
You will be assessed through a variety of means, including written assignments, presentations, case studies and projects, and practice-based portfolio.
The programme adopts a blended learning approach with modules delivered through a combination of practical placements, lectures, class-based seminars, practical work, and site visits.
Developing Self
Developing Others
Developing Leadership
Module and assessment information for future years is displayed as currently validated and may be liable to change.
All years of the course are structured around applied learning. This links your studies to real-world situations within your workplace.
You will progress through the programme following successful achievement of academic assessments, which address the learning outcomes for each module and allow you to complete End Point Assessment.
Applications can be from existing employees looking to develop their careers, or new applicants to the employer with employer approval.
Applicants must:
UCAS Points and College Grades
For school leavers:
For applicants with relevant work experience in social settings, we will consider each application on an individual basis to ensure that you are selecting the right level of programme.
If you are an employer:
If you want to offer this apprenticeship to an existing employee or a new recruit and have any questions, get in touch at enquiries@lincoln.ac.uk.
If you are an applicant:
To apply for this apprenticeship, you must first have a suitable employer who can support your application. We can support you to encourage your employer to offer an apprenticeship. You will then apply for the programme through them.
At Lincoln, we have partnered with hundreds of businesses and public sector organisations, including the NHS and local councils, as well as industry giants Coca-Cola and Nestlé, to fulfil their training needs. Explore our range of apprenticeships to see how we can support you.
