Overview

Social Work at Middlesex University offers an accelerated route to becoming a professional social worker for highly motivated recent graduates or for career changers looking for new challenges and opportunities. You will be able to develop into an excellent and valued social worker with the capacity to work in all statutory social work settings, and in a wide variety of private and voluntary workplaces in the UK. 

• Approval and registration: This programme is approved by the regulatory body for the profession, Social Work England. Graduates are able to eligible to register as social workers once their qualification has been published by the University. 
• Strong industry links: We have excellent relationships with local employers through our long-standing stakeholder group. As a result, some of your teaching with be co-delivered by practising social workers and service users.
• Real-world experience: You will also able to take advantage of high-quality placements in both adult and children’s services including a final 100-day placement where you will undertake statutory interventions.
• Immersive learning: You will benefit from high levels of tutor contact time through extended teaching sessions, interactive workshop style seminars and e-learning resources

• High-quality teaching: You will be taught by staff from within our Department of Mental Health and Social Work, where prominent and pioneering research projects in the disciplines of social work and mental health is undertaken.

Careers

Once qualified, our graduates have gone onto work as Social Workers in a range of settings working closely with vulnerable people from groups such as:

• Older adults and later life
• Teenagers with mental health problems
• Young offenders
• Adults with learning disabilities, mental health problems or physical disabilities
• People with alcohol, drug or other substance misuse problems
• Refugees and asylum seekers
• Children who are at risk of abuse or neglect

Our Social Work graduates have gone onto work in local authorities, charities, voluntary sector organisations and private/ independent sector organisations, with many finding employment with our placement partners within neighbouring London boroughs and beyond.