SD2D110 - Public Services Placement and Professional Skills 01 Sep 2024 - 31 Aug 2030 | Version 0

Associated Module Information

Module Code: SD2D110
Module Title: Public Services Placement and Professional Skills
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Creative Industries
Faculty Group: Leadership and Public Services
Faculty Sub Group: Leadership and Public Services
Module Leader: Vida Greaux
Module Team: Paul Lewis, David Phillips
First Intended Intake: SEP 2024 Final Year of Intake: 2029
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 40 Credit Level: 5
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 100647 - public policy
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 0
Valid From 01 Sep 2024
Valid To 31 Aug 2030

Module Aims

To enable the student to gain skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the public sector by undertaking a period of work experience or a ‘live project’. 

Content Summary

The requirements, competencies and attributes needed for a career in the field of public and emergency services 

Identification and evaluation of personal skills  

Personal development planning 

Action learning sets 

Critical reflection 

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Seminars 20
Work-based learning 240
Independent Study 100
Directed Study (Including online independent learning) 40
Total Hours Selected 400

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Reflect on the nature of professional practice in the field of public services, identify the gaps between their work?related capabilities and these expectations and prepare for work experience
LO2 Reflect upon the way their?work?experiences or role has contributed to their professional practice, using this to develop future personal/professional development.

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Asynchronous Assessment Portfolio 1 Reflective workbook 0 4000 50 No 40
Synchronous Onsite Oral Assessment Presentation (Synchronous Onsite) 1 Reflective presentation 15 N/A 50 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2
Portfolio 1
Presentation (Synchronous Onsite) 1

Reading List

Doel, M. 2009, Social Work Placements. A Traveller’s Guide, London: Routledge 

Atfield, G, W. Hunt, D. Luchinskya, 2021, Employability Programs and work placements in UK Higher Education,  

Holmes, C, 2017, What Employers want. The Employability Skills Handbook, Bath: Trotman Publishing 

Mullins, L.J, G. Rees and J, Mclean, 2023, Management and Organisational Behaviour, Harlow: Pearson  

Farrell, C and J. Law, 2021, Values for public servants in Wales: Putting them into Practice?, in H. Sullivan and H. Dickinson (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant, Springer International Publishing