This course is undertaken in conjunction with either the HUSO2391 Mental Health & Wellbeing Capstone or the HUSO2418 Youth Work Capstone. This Work Integrated Learning (WIL) course prepares you for transition into your professional career through a 28-day (210-hour) placement within a relevant industry workplace setting. You will apply and reflect upon ideas, theories, skills and capabilities gained through your program, to evaluate your professional practices using scholarly ideas and professional insights. You will draw upon your previous study in practice skills, ethics, policy, research and your understandings of socio-political impacts to interact in real or simulated practice with support and supervision from a placement supervisor.
You will be expected to engage in pre-semester preparations, ensuring you have a Working With Children Check, Police Check and other requirements in place. RMIT will source your placement and assist you to match and interview with a relevant placement agency.
In order to be prepared to work in roles in human services settings, at the end of this course you will produce a Learning plan (Pebble Pad) which supports you to identify and make observations on how you have reached professional goals. You will also meet placement requirements such as meeting with a placement liaison, Supervisor and complete competency in placement by submission of logsheet hours and placement evaluation.
This is a core course in the Bachelor of Social Science (Youth Work) and (Mental Health and Wellbeing) programs.
In this course, you will also undertake learning activities/assessment to: