Course: Professional training with supervision

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Course title Professional training with supervision
Course code KPZ/P6PZS
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Faltová Barbora, Mgr.
  • Michková Adéla, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Social departments of authorities of municipalities with extended competence, job centre, Czech social security administration - 40 hours/week. Providers of social services and related services (homes for the elderly, day care centre, early care, shelters, respite care, the integration centre for foreigners, personal assistance, social services for persons with mental illness) - 30 hours/week. Health care facilities focusing on the internal, surgical, psychiatric, children's department (the department of social care hospitals, children's homes for children up to 3 years, children's centers, hospice, specialized medical centers) - 30 hours/week. The course Professional training with supervision in the range of 720 lessons is completed with the course of Individual professional training in the range of 320 lessons. The entire number of professional training lessons in the field of study Medical social worker is 1040 lessons.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Methods of individual activities, Skills training
Learning outcomes
The aim of the professional training is to develop the professional competences of the students, their ability of reflection and critical thinking, to challenge them for further education through the aims of learning and activities during their professional training. The aim is also to obtain practical skills and compare theoretical ideas about medical social work to its practical implementation. The aim of professional training supervision is to guide, support and check the student during the professional training at a working place. The student is able to solve such kind of questions which can help him to proceed various situations during the professional training, to integrate his experience and information. Supervision is aimed to develop ethics culture of medical social work, to develop the skills of working in a team, reflection and self-reflection. In the course of Professional training with supervision we talk about the supervision in a small group of students, in well-founded cases it is possible to give the student an individual supervision.
The student obtains the experience in social relations in organizations which are aimed to provide social and medical and social services under a specialized supervision of a charged worker of the organization. An inseparable part of the professional training is a supervision.
Prerequisites
unspecified
KPZ/P5PZS

Assessment methods and criteria
Home assignment evaluation, Student performance assessment

The fulfilment of stated practice, activities and case studies included in "The notebook of work, operations and other specialized activities of a medical social worker." In case of 3 weeks´ justified absence more than it is necessary to be present at lessons during the main holidays or examination period. When the absence is longer than 5 weeks, the student has to apply for a grade resit or for an exceptional permission at the study guarantor. 100% active presence in professional training fulfilment A written evaluation of an experienced practitioner. Students´ written reflection.
Recommended literature
  • Záznamník činností, úkonů a jiných odborných aktivit zdravotně-sociálního pracovníka.
  • HAWKINS, P.; SHOHET, R. Supervize v pomáhajících profesích. 1. vyd. Praha: Portál, 2004.
  • HOLASOVÁ, V. Průvodce odborným praktickým vzděláváním v sociální práci: pro mentorky. V Ostravě: Katedra sociální práce, Zdravotně sociální fakulta, Ostravská univerzita, 2007.
  • LEVICKÁ, J. Kazuistický seminár zo sociálnej práce. SAP - Slovak Academic Press, 2004.
  • TRUHLÁŘOVÁ, Z.; LEVICKÁ, K. Od teorie k praxi, od praxe k teorii: From theory to practice, from practice to theory. Sborník z konference VIII. Hradecké dny sociální práce, Hradec Králové, 2011.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Health Studies Study plan (Version): Health and Social Worker (2013) Category: Health service 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Health Studies Study plan (Version): Health and Social Worker (2014) Category: Health service 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer