Internships and placements for Social Work

The Degree Course in Social Work includes among its objectives also activities aimed at learning operational skills, with the obligation of external activities such as internships / traineeships, which can also be carried out abroad. The course states that the internship / professional internship and the Internship Guide included, is an integral and qualifying part of the students' programme as follows:

• First year (1 credit: 25 hours) A.S. Dott.ssa Miranda Prosio mirandaprosio@libero.it
  Student’s experience with the welfare context. The in-depth area of study concerns an initial knowledge of the organisational and institutional context, also in the private social and non-profit sector, the identification of professional figures and profiles, reflection on the paths of construction of social work, with particular reference to the role of theory in social work.
• Second year (5 credits: 125 hours) A.S. Dott.ssa Antonella De Luca delucaa.at@libero.it
  Student’s experience with the context of professional social work.The in-depth area of study concerns the interpersonal relationship and network of relationships that the Social Worker builds for the activation and promotion of resources in the territorial, institutional and organisational context of reference, the experimentation of the ability to manage professional relationships with different subjects, the development of the ability to grasp and formalise the central elements of the profession in the context of multidimensionality of social work, the verification of personal motivation
• Third year (12 credits: 300 hours) A.S. Dott.ssa Adriana Platone adriana.platone@gmail.com
  Student experimentation within the profession. The in-depth area of study concerns experimentation of the ability to analyse and manage the different variables that determine the quality of performance, the strengthening of ability to develop a specific social intervention project, at the level of primary and secondary networks, in the context of a broader planning context

Internship / traineeship activities include compulsory attendance and are carried out in public and private social services with which the University stipulates a specific agreement. The internship student is accompanied by a social worker with the functions of company tutor/supervisor, who will certify the actual presence of the student during the internship.

Evaluation of the internship is summarised in terms of suitability or non-suitability, based on the evaluation of a written report, drawn up by the student, and on the basis of an intermediate and final evaluation carried out between the internship organisational tutor, company tutor-supervisor and student, in agreement with the Professor of Theories, Methods and Techniques of the Social Service of reference for that year of the Course of Studies. In the event of non-suitability, after careful evaluation by the Teacher of Theories, Methods and Techniques of the Social Service with the internship organisational Tutor, it is possible to integrate or repeat the internship.

It is also possible to formulate a "concerted internship" project with the service for third year students, also oriented towards the final exam of the degree course. In this case, the organization becomes both the training provider and the beneficiary of the results of the internship project.

ONLINE COURSES: HEALTH AND SAFETY IN THE WORKPLACE:  In order to fulfil the regulatory obligations of Health and Safety in the Workplace, the trainee must send an email with the subject "START STAGE" to the address: prevsic@uniupo.it to gain access to the mandatory online courses on safety (" General Safety Training "and" Specific Low-Risk Training "): you will receive instructions for accessing the courses directly via email from the Safety, Prevention and Protection Sector. Upon completion of the courses, you will obtain the relative certificates: a copy must be delivered to the Internship Office together with the other documents necessary for the start of the internship. Certificates of safety courses are mandatory for the start of the internship.

For operational instructions relating to the start of the internship, see the Guidelines file for the internship in the Annexes of the page.

COMPLETION BY STUDENT OF EVALUATION QUESTIONNAIRE

It is necessary to notify the Internship Office (email stage.digspes@uniupo.it) if the internship is interrupted before the end date indicated on the training project. Only in this way will it be possible to complete the internship evaluation questionnaires. Completion of the questionnaires is mandatory in order to register the internship.