Administration and Work-related DevelopmentLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

Student has advanced skills in immediate line management, client work and supervision, client processes,management/leadership stategies/options. Can envisage or anticipate the policy decisions made at the community or national level and their effects on social service provision, work-related development, in partnership with others.
Has advanced skills in planning, organising work and leading a team.

Content

Social and Health ministry´s goals and strategies are the guiding principles in social service system and development
The Immediate line manager´s role, duties and challenges
Community,Team or group work, client processes, leadership and development
Advanced knowledge of Human resources and budgets/finance

Qualifications

The student has basic knowledge and skills in immediate line management in the public or private sector social services. This is demostrated in client work and service provision in NGO or public or private sector organisations through work or work placement. Has knowledge of Human resource management, finance/bugeting and professional development skills in the area of HR e.g.,planning the duty roster. Has a good understanding of the effects of social policies as limitations or opportunities to different partners in different networks/organisations.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

(4 – 5)The student has well-advanced knowledge about the development of his/her own field and critical understanding of the theories in the field and its operating principles as well. The student knows how to formulate individual knowledge based on the international and also on the most recent knowledge in the course/area of competence. He/she can evaluate it critically while showing creative thinking. The student knows how the knowledge acquired can be used, in a variety of ways, for the management of influential learning tasks and development projects and in their coordinated implementation. The student knows how to use information and communication technology in the acquisition of knowledge, in its production and in passing it to its field and how to do it in a way that creates new working methods. In communication situations, he/she presents information, analyzing it outstandingly and connecting it to the sector's information needs.

( 3 ) The student has comprehensively mastered the knowledge of his/her own field. He/she acquires information spontaneously and independently and subjects it to a critical evaluation. The student is familiar with both the international as well as national knowledge base of the course/area of competence and can use it to independently carry out various tasks and learning projects. The student knows how, by different means, to disseminate the knowledge he/she has acquired and how to critically justify its use. In communication and interaction situations where his/her team is involved, the student can use and present information in a clearly analyzed, instructive and constructive way.

(1 -2) The student has mastered the basic knowledge of his/her own field. He/she is capable of independent knowledge acquisition and learning as well as development of learning methods. In his/her community, the student knows how to disseminate the knowledge acquired. The student can evaluate information from various viewpoints, including professional ethics and sustainable development. The student knows how to use information and communication technology in the acquisition of knowledge, in its production and in passing it to other members of his/her team. The student is familiar with the key information sources for the course concerned.