This course includes a 30 day work integrated learning experience (228 hours) in which your youth work values, knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/ or community is integral to assessment of your experience and development of your professional competence.
The course focuses on your emerging identity and capability as a youth worker, assessed through your developing skills and knowledge applied in a youth work related setting.
You will draw upon previous studies regarding youth work practice skills, ethics, policy, and understandings of youth and young people and their social contexts, to undertake supervised practice in the field.
In the classroom, in structured sessions called a Community of Practice (CoP), you will engage in group supervision and exploration of your WIL experience and emerging youth work practice.
This course includes a work integrated learning (WIL) experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/ or community is integral to your experience.
This means that there is an expectation that you will complete 30 full supervised days (228 hours) of field education placement in an industry setting. You are not able to undertake a placement without meeting all requirements and having an active Work Integrated Learning (WIL) agreement in place.
Course Preparation:
Certain preparation tasks must be completed in advance of your enrolment in Field Education for you to be eligible to participate in the allocation process. For example, you must complete by the appropriate deadlines communicated by the GUSS WIL Coordinator:
You will be allocated to a placement by the GUSS WIL staff. The allocation is based on a range of factors, including the information you provide in your Placement Planning Form (PPF) and whether you meet the requirements of the organisation.
Please note that you must be enrolled in a Field Education course to participate in the placement preparation and allocation process. The placement preparation and allocation process commences at least four months prior to your placement commencing. To be eligible for placement allocation (ideally before the HECS Census date), you need to participate in this process.
If you do not engage in the pre-preparation tasks and with communication from GUSS WIL and/or the WIL Coordinator before the HECS Census date the RMIT cannot guarantee to secure you a placement and you will be unable to complete the requirements of the course.
Signing off on your WIL activity and passing the assessments in the course is a requirement of passing the course. Students who do not drop the course by the University Census date will be financially liable for this course and possibly receive an automatic fail grade. You will be advised to re-enrol in the next available semester and any achieved placement hours and/or submitted assessments will not be attributed upon re-enrolment.