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Professional Practice in Team LeadershipLaajuus (6 cr)

Code: SOSSW503

Credits

6 op

Teaching language

  • Finnish

Responsible person

  • Timo Hintikka

Objective

The students have an understanding of the requirements of team leadership, client work counselling and how to lead client processes in different ways provided services in social welfare and early education. The students have the basic skills to operate in different areas of the leadership, particularly the management and development of client work. Students will become familiar with the tasks of the leadership and has experiments of practice. The students are able to evaluate her own competence and development needs.

Content

Supervised practice in team leadership, where the student becomes get to know with the aspects:
• managing client processes and carrying out a basic task
• Perceiving the “annual clock” of the unit's team leadership work
• pedagogical management of educational work / management of rehabilitative supervision work
• human resource management
• developing staff skills and coping at work
• quality assurance and service development
• the process of planning and preparing the action plan and self-monitoring plan and the budget
• digitization and the use of technology in management
• cooperation with various actors (networks and stakeholders)

Qualifications

The students know how to counsel and support different clients in their everyday life, on the different levels of their growth, development and learning and in their changing situations of life. The students know the services supporting welfare and social security.
The students know the central leadership models of team leadership as well as the starting points of customer work guidance and work community know-how and related self-assessment.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Pass (S)
- The course will be assessed in the final discussion session
- Supervised practice is passed after the student has achieved the adequate competence as instructed in learning objectives
- The course is failed when the learning objectives and/or the training report are not approved.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Pass (S) - The course will be assessed in the final discussion session - Supervised practice is passed after the student has achieved the adequate competence as instructed in learning objectives - The course is failed when the learning objectives and/or the training report are not approved.

Enrollment

01.11.2021 - 09.01.2022

Timing

14.03.2022 - 08.04.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

6 op

Mode of delivery

Face-to-face

Unit

School of Health and Social Studies

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

30 - 30

Degree programmes
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Social Services
Teachers
  • Tanja Tervanen
  • Anniina Berg
  • Timo Hintikka
  • Jenni Koivumäki
Teacher in charge

Timo Hintikka

Groups
  • SOS19SM
    Sosionomi

Objectives

The students have an understanding of the requirements of team leadership, client work counselling and how to lead client processes in different ways provided services in social welfare and early education. The students have the basic skills to operate in different areas of the leadership, particularly the management and development of client work. Students will become familiar with the tasks of the leadership and has experiments of practice. The students are able to evaluate her own competence and development needs.

Content

Supervised practice in team leadership, where the student becomes get to know with the aspects:
• managing client processes and carrying out a basic task
• Perceiving the “annual clock” of the unit's team leadership work
• pedagogical management of educational work / management of rehabilitative supervision work
• human resource management
• developing staff skills and coping at work
• quality assurance and service development
• the process of planning and preparing the action plan and self-monitoring plan and the budget
• digitization and the use of technology in management
• cooperation with various actors (networks and stakeholders)

Learning materials and recommended literature

Will be given in connection with instructions on practice

Teaching methods

Supervised practice, learning assignments implemented during the practice, self evaluation

Student workload

Supervised practice 137 h, report and learning assignments 25 h. Total 162 hours.

Evaluation scale

0-5

Evaluation criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Pass (S)
- The course will be assessed in the final discussion session
- Supervised practice is passed after the student has achieved the adequate competence as instructed in learning objectives
- The course is failed when the learning objectives and/or the training report are not approved.

Evaluation criteria, pass/failed

Pass (S) - The course will be assessed in the final discussion session - Supervised practice is passed after the student has achieved the adequate competence as instructed in learning objectives - The course is failed when the learning objectives and/or the training report are not approved.

Prerequisites

The students know how to counsel and support different clients in their everyday life, on the different levels of their growth, development and learning and in their changing situations of life. The students know the services supporting welfare and social security.
The students know the central leadership models of team leadership as well as the starting points of customer work guidance and work community know-how and related self-assessment.

Enrollment

01.11.2021 - 09.01.2022

Timing

14.03.2022 - 08.04.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

6 op

Mode of delivery

Face-to-face

Unit

School of Health and Social Studies

Campus

Lutakko Campus

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Degree programmes
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Social Services
Teachers
  • Tanja Tervanen
  • Anniina Berg
  • Timo Hintikka
  • Jenni Koivumäki
Teacher in charge

Timo Hintikka

Groups
  • SOS19S1
    Sosionomi

Objectives

The students have an understanding of the requirements of team leadership, client work counselling and how to lead client processes in different ways provided services in social welfare and early education. The students have the basic skills to operate in different areas of the leadership, particularly the management and development of client work. Students will become familiar with the tasks of the leadership and has experiments of practice. The students are able to evaluate her own competence and development needs.

Content

Supervised practice in team leadership, where the student becomes get to know with the aspects:
• managing client processes and carrying out a basic task
• Perceiving the “annual clock” of the unit's team leadership work
• pedagogical management of educational work / management of rehabilitative supervision work
• human resource management
• developing staff skills and coping at work
• quality assurance and service development
• the process of planning and preparing the action plan and self-monitoring plan and the budget
• digitization and the use of technology in management
• cooperation with various actors (networks and stakeholders)

Learning materials and recommended literature

Will be given in connection with instructions on practice

Teaching methods

Supervised practice, learning assignments implemented during the practice, self evaluation.

Student workload

Supervised practice 137 h, report and learning assignments 25 h. Total 162 hours.

Evaluation scale

0-5

Evaluation criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Pass (S)
- The course will be assessed in the final discussion session
- Supervised practice is passed after the student has achieved the adequate competence as instructed in learning objectives
- The course is failed when the learning objectives and/or the training report are not approved.

Evaluation criteria, pass/failed

Pass (S) - The course will be assessed in the final discussion session - Supervised practice is passed after the student has achieved the adequate competence as instructed in learning objectives - The course is failed when the learning objectives and/or the training report are not approved.

Prerequisites

The students know how to counsel and support different clients in their everyday life, on the different levels of their growth, development and learning and in their changing situations of life. The students know the services supporting welfare and social security.
The students know the central leadership models of team leadership as well as the starting points of customer work guidance and work community know-how and related self-assessment.