Demonstrating professional capability in your practice assessment
Learning Objectives
After considering this resource, you should know more about how to demonstrate your professional capability at different stages of assessment.
Social work's complexity requires practitioners to interweave knowledge, skills and values into their practice with a high degree of sophistication, as well as to deploy integrity and creativity in their professional responsibilities.
Social work programmes are increasingly expected to provide skills development teaching for students that reflects these requirements and that increases in complexity as students progress through the course.
This resource is designed to help you think about how to demonstrate your professional capability in the assessment of your practice, by explaining and exploring key generic social work skills and inviting you to check your understanding of the social work role.
Reflective Questions
- How can you best prepare for the next stage of assessment of your professional capability?
- Which skills are you confident of bringing to your next practice learning opportunity, and which skills do you hope to acquire?
- How can you best prepare for your next supervision session and how do you see your role evolving in the supervision process?
- What is the meaning of working in partnership and how can you work to achieve this in practice?