the enhancer2p project
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Enhancing the Readiness to Practise of NQSWsin Aotearoa New Zealand
+Project team Neil Ballantyne, Senior Lecturer, the Open Polytechnic of New
Zealand. Dr. Liz Beddoe, Associate Professor of Social Work , University of
Auckland. Dr. Kathryn Hay, Senior Lecturer, Massey University. Dr. Jane Maidment, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of
Canterbury. Shayne Walker, Senior Lecturer, University of Otago Liz Ngan (Research Assistant)
+Issues for social work education in Aotearoa New Zealand Vocal government and stakeholder
critique of readiness to practise based on anecdote and opinion.
New challenges to employers in the form of government social service and CYF reforms.
Lack of clarity regarding capability of NQSWs and capabilities at other points in the career journey.
Little dialogue between TEIs and other stakeholders about educational issues.
To create a map of the content of the social work curriculum.
To discover the perceptions of students, educators, managers and service users.
To collaborate in the production of a capabilities framework with clear expectations for the social work curriculum.
To enable TEIs to graduate NQSWs who are confident, capable and ready to practise.
The problem The opportunity
+Critique of social work education“CYF reports that many new graduates they employ lack the required level of knowledge of child protection, youth justice, child development, mental health, addictions and family violence. This means new social workers need to learn these skills on the job.”
(Children’s Commissioner, 2015, p.34)
+Project aims
Develop a Professional Capabilities Framework clarifying the capabilities of newly qualified social workers (NQSWs) and social workers at experienced, advanced and expert levels of practice.
+Project research questions What is the content of the current Aotearoa New Zealand social
work curriculum and how does it relate to the SWRB core competencies?
How well prepared are NQSWs to enter professional social work practice and how is their learning being supported and enhanced in the workplace?
What professional capabilities, including cultural capabilities, should we expect of NQSWs and of social workers working at experienced, advanced and expert levels of practice?
+Three ways of thinking about curriculum
The Learned
Curriculum
The Taught
Curriculum
The Declared
Curriculum
Documentary analysis
Student focus groupsEducator focus group
+Creating TISWEANZ Seventeen TEIs run 22 social work programmes in NZ Fourteen TEIs (82%) are participating and between them
they offer19 (86%) of programmes We have collated over 400 individual course descriptors Analysis has produce a draft taxonomy of 581 terms
including equivalent terms (USE/UF), hierarchical terms (BT/NT) and associative terms (RT)
+TISWEANZ: Candidate terms Risk (10)
protective factors (4) risk assessment (29) risk factors (2) risk indicators (6) risk management (12) risk prevention (3)
Human development (24) child development (8) adolescence (5) adulthood (5) biological development (8) cognitive development (8) emotional development (4) moral development (1) physical development (9) psychosocial development
(4)
+2017: phase 2: Assess the readiness to practise of NQSWs Write a literature scan of literature relevant to the readiness to
practise of NQSWs. Conduct an online survey of all NQSWs and their managers who
have been in post-qualifying practice for between six months and one year.
Interview a sample of NQSW students and their managers to assess perceived readiness to practise.
Conduct focus groups of service users to assess perceived readiness to practise of NQSWs.
Write a report on the readiness to practise of NQSW’s in New Zealand
+Questions? Contact Neil and Liz: