Social Care - Kerry
Social care is a profession where people work in partnership with those who experience marginalisation or disadvantage or who have special needs. Social care practitioners may work, for example, with children and adolescents in residential care, people with learning or physical disabilities, the homeless, people with alcohol/drug dependency, families in the community, older people, and recent immigrants to Ireland.
| Award Name | Degree - Honours Bachelor (Level 8 NFQ) |
|---|---|
| NFQ Classification | Major |
| Awarding Body | Munster Technological University |
| NFQ Level | Level 8 NFQ |
| Award Name | NFQ Classification | Awarding Body | NFQ Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Degree - Honours Bachelor (Level 8 NFQ) | Major | Munster Technological University | Level 8 NFQ |
Duration
1 Year Add-on
Entry Requirements
Holders of appropriate Bachelor of Arts Degree in Social Care should apply to IT, Tralee.
Other Requirements
Satisfactory Garda Vetting is a mandatory part of registration for this programme. Failure to obtain satisfactory Garda Vetting will result in de-registration. Any offence and/or convictions arising after registration must be disclosed to the Institute immediately. The Institute reserves right to review the registration status of a student in light of additional information received subsequent to registration.
Careers / Further progression
What are my career opportunities
Due to the broad range of discipline areas covered on the programme there are a wide variety of career opportunities for graduates in the public and voluntary sector, in the areas of residential care, outreach, alcohol/drug dependency, family support, community care, older people, juvenile justice and community childcare services.
Graduates can also work as carers of children in need of care and protection, carers of children with special needs, carers of adults with special needs and or behavioural difficulties. Community care workers are involved in providing outreach and family support services for children and adults living at home.
Career options exist in a variety of settings including the Health Service Executive (HSE) and the substantial voluntary and community sectors. The broad nature of the placement experience on this programme provides students with an opportunity to decide what they are best suited to.
Level 8 graduates have expertise in the area of policy formation, management and research / project skills which will afford them career opportunities in social care settings that require these higher order skill sets.
Progression
Masters (taught) - Master of Arts in Social Studies (Applied Professional Practice).
Further information
Apply to the Admissions Office, MTU.
The Institute welcomes applications from persons who will be 23 years of age and over on the 1st of January of the proposed year of entry and who wish to be admitted as a mature student. The Institute reserves a minimum of 5% of all places for mature applicants.
In March of each year, MTU welcomes applications for add-on degree and honours degree programmes, with a commencement date of the following September.
The application process is open for one month, from early March to the first week in April each year (this date changes slightly due to the Easter holidays, but it is always within the first week in April).
What is Social Care
Social care is a profession where people work in partnership with those who experience marginalisation or disadvantage or who have special needs. Social care practitioners may work, for example, with children and adolescents in residential care, people with learning or physical disabilities, the homeless, people with alcohol/drug dependency, families in the community, older people, and recent immigrants to Ireland.
Social care practitioners will typically work in a direct person to person capacity with the users of services. They will seek to provide an environment in which various social, educational and relationship interventions can take place in the day to day living space of the service user.
Why study Social Care at MTU - Kerry Campus?
This one year Add-On level 8 course at the ITT is delivered through lectures, workshops and guest lectures visit. At level 7, it was essential that students developed practical working skills/methods and to demonstrate their competence in performing social care roles, the fieldwork visits/placements were structured into the course to ensure that graduates were fully prepared for the diversity that the sector can offer.
The level 8 course focuses on refining and augmenting the theoretical knowledge base in the area of social care and also provides an excellent grounding in research skills and policy making. Level 8 graduates will be required to deal with change and become effective change agents. In order to do this, they must be capable of informed critical thought and action, which will be facilitated by this honours degree programme.