Youth & Community Services BA (Hons)

Validated by the National Youth Agency and conferring nationally qualified youth worker status, this course provides a broad context for the study of young people's services.

This course will provide you with the opportunity to study for an Honours degree while developing a strong professional discipline and identity. It is designed for those already working with young people who require a JNC - a professional youth work qualification to enhance future career prospects.

This course provides a broad context for the study of young people services whilist enabling you to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for effective youth work practice.

The course builds on the strength and diversity of current service provision to prepare you for an increasingly complex and continually changing work environment. It is validated by the National Youth Agency and recognised by the Joint Negotiating Committee for Youth and Community Workers as conferring nationally qualified youth worker status.

You will develop an appreciation of the needs, rights and aspirations of young people, while learning to assess and understand them.

Factfile
Entry requirements
Course content
Student views
News

UCAS code

UCAS is the central organisation through which applications are processed for entry onto full-time undergraduate courses in Higher Education in the UK.

Youth & Community Services BA (Hons) L590 BA/YAC

For the latest information and UCAS codes visit www.ucas.com

Study options

Three year full-time or five year part-time route available
Supervised work-based learningf or 25% of the course
Taught aspects of the course are confined to a single day per week, enabling employed students to undertake study on a day-release basis

Get in touch

Admissions Office
01905 855111
admissions@worc.ac.uk

220-240 UCAS Tariff points

Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interview, and will be expected to demonstrate that they have an understanding of the nature of work with young people. Candidates will be expected to have experience of working with young people in a paid or voluntary capacity

A satisfactory Criminal Records Bureau disclosure and health clearance will be required for successful applicants

Modules

Young People Services: An Introduction
Managing Practice: The Reflective Practitioner
Understanding Young People: Learning & Change
Assessment, Intervention & Outcomes: Information
Understanding Young People: Rights & Agency
Diversity & Equality: Challenging Discrimination
Practice Skills: Working with Young People
Young People Services: A Comparative Study
Managing Practice: Team Working & Leadership
Understanding Young People: Transition & Inclusion
Assessment, Intervention & Outcomes: Targeting
Active Involvement of Young People
Specialisms in Practice
Practice Skills: Working with Groups & Projects
Community Work in Practice
Managing Practice: Multidisciplinary Approaches
Action Research in Practice
Assessment, Intervention & Outcomes: Policy
Practice Skills: Working with Issues & Communities
Independent Study

Assessment

Wide range of assessment types, including assignments, case studies, presentations, practice recordings, reports and reflective journals

Gemma Benton

Student, Youth & Community Services BA (Hons)

“This course equips me to handle challenges and barriers in my work with young people.”

Academic department

Institute of Health & Society

“The University is a leading innovator in the fields of health and social care. Unique appointments such as the UK’s first professors of perinatal education and tissue viability demonstrate our commitment to research excellence.”
Louise Jones, Head of Institute

Employability

With increasing emphasis on multidisciplinary and multi-agency service delivery to young people there is growing demand for professional youth work practitioners across a wide variety of settings both within the statutory and voluntary sector.

A professional youth worker's skills, knowledge and experience are valued in a wide range of service contexts and consequently you could follow a career in youth work, youth justice work, youth participation, children's rights and advocacy work, advice and guidance work and work within a wide range of young people support services notably housing support, substance misuse services and education support.

It is also an ideal base for postgraduate study.

Skills gained during the course:
Appreciation of the needs, rights, responsibilities and aspirations of young people
Management and development of yourself and teams
Assessment and understanding of young people’s development and behaviour
Critical analysis and evaluation of professional practice
Become a confident and knowledgeable reflective practitioner

Health & Society News

University's Health Leader Takes on Two Influential Roles - Tuesday, 22 May 2012

The Head of the University of Worcester’s Institute of Health and Society has been appointed to two important external roles.
Nursing Students Receive Vital Training in Working with People Living with Dementia - Wednesday, 25 April 2012

First year nursing students at the University of Worcester are to take part in a one-day conference about working with people living with dementia.
Student Nurses Walk Five Miles Between University and Hospital for Cancer Research UK - Monday, 23 April 2012

Seven student nurses from the University of Worcester under took a five mile charity walk after being inspired by their studies.