PgDip Youth and Community Work

Develop your understanding of how to empower young people and the community, challenge marginalisation and create positive opportunities for their personal development. Explore key areas of knowledge and practice-based learning as you develop professional resilience and learn to lead and manage the evolving and complex demands of employers.
Elevate your professional practice, demonstrating competence and capacity to improve through continued personal and professional development. You develop collaborative working practices, preparing you for professional interactions within youth-based organisations to evaluate the impact of policies and quality processes.
Engage with the youth workers standards, developing the skills to motivate and inspire young people to succeed and progress through creative intervention. Learn how to implement a range of inclusive, innovative and adaptive informal education strategies. You become a confident, critical, articulate and creative leader as you develop your ability to link theory to your evidence-based practice. Gain critical awareness of current issues in the field of community and youth work, developing skills such as reflective learning, professional responsibility and ethics. Much of the work with young people and the wider community can be project-based, addressing issues like support into education, developing life skills, making healthy choices and empowerment, drugs and subsense use, mental well-being, sexual health, poverty, sexual exploitation, mentoring, knife crime, advisory work, homelessness, worklessness, intimate partner violence, arts, sport and music projects.

To apply you need:

a first degree (minimum of 2:2). If you do not meet this criterion but can demonstrate significant experience and/or further study, you may be considered.
a personal statement demonstrating relevant work or voluntary experience with young people or adults in a community setting.
As part of the admissions process, and prior to an offer being made, you need to:

complete and pass a formal interview and written exercise
confirm your ability to complete 400 practice placement hours in an appropriate context during your first year (200 hours each semester)
demonstrate intellectual and academic suitability for the course
demonstrate the appropriate attitudes and values expected of someone working with young people or adults in a community setting
be able to communicate clearly and accurately in standard English
complete a satisfactory Occupational Health Clearance (further details will be provided)
complete a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
provide a completed Declaration of Suitability for Youth Work form
confirm you have basic IT skills including word-processing, internet browsing and email.
International students:

You should have the equivalent of a 2:2 undergraduate degree in any discipline and a minimum overall IELTS (academic) score of 6.5 with 6 in each component (or approved equivalent).

PTE (Academic) - 62
Cambridge English scale - 176
Trinity Integrated Skills in English -ISE II Distinction