FVP:UVSRPHK010 Professional Work Experience a - Course Information

UVSRPHK010 Professional Work Experience and Supervisory Seminar 1

Extent and Intensity

10/120/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

PaedDr. Miroslav Pilát, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Institute of Public Administration and Social Policy – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Contact Person: JUDr. Marie Sciskalová, Ph.D.

Prerequisites (in Czech)

FAKULTA(FVP) && TYP_STUDIA(N) && FORMA(K)

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Public Administration and Social Politics (programme FVP, VSSP)

Course objectives

The aim of professional work experience in the first year of the study is acquainting oneself with the management processes in organizations, fulfilment of strategic objectives and missions of the organizations, teamwork and work with clients.
The course consists of two parts.The first part is the work experience proper which in the scope of 120 hours allows students to become familiar with the environment of their possible future profession and to verify through the practice of its performance by the supervisor in the organization their acquired theoretical knowledge, as well as to gain practical experience.Professional work experience extends the opportunity to stimulate the process of identification with the profession in students, providing students with opportunity to capture the managing, methodological, conceptual and analytical work, including the skills of project activities and direct work with clients.Through interactive discussions and experiential learning activities in this course, students will realize the pitfalls of working in helping professions and public administration as well as reasons why workers in helping professions and public administration fail at their work.Students also familiarize themselves with practical demonstrations of supervision interviews and coaching approaches, especially in group.At the seminars, the greatest attention is paid to the need for the supervision of aiding professionals, creation of contracts and supervision interviews so that students are familiar with them and able to prepare supervision in their organization together with a supervisor or a coach.
The second necessary part of the course are supervision seminars at the faculty.Students are to participate in these seminars regularly, discuss problems they themselves or their colleagues encountered during their work experience with their instructor and seek possible solutions.
The Professional work experience I course also allows students to consult their theses with professional practitioners, inspire themselves with the activities they perform as part of their work experience at their facility with their supervisor.Students can use acquired findings to develop their thesis proposal.

Implementation process:
 Student finds a work experience opportunity or chooses from the work experience opportunities offered by the guarantor of work experience, contractual basis.
 Familiarization with the institution in which the student will perform work experience, internal regulations, health and safety at work, compliance with GDRP in the organization.
 Introductions with the work experience supervisor and their work team, familiarization with the job description, the working methods and procedures used.
 Individual work experience under the supervision of the supervisor, performance of assigned tasks.
 Keeping the Work Experience Diary which in addition to assigned tasks needs to include also attendance record confirmed by the supervisor, the supervisor evaluation and the student’s self-evaluation.
 Evaluation of student’s participation on supervisory seminars.
 Completion, analysis and evaluation of the performed work experience, approval of the structured written monitoring report by the instructor and award of credit.

Learning outcomes

Professional Knowledge
Students will extend their theoretical knowledge of the activities developing expertise and skills in relation to the degree course.
Professional Skills
Students can navigate selected areas of public administration and social services, understanding their issues in relation to the various theoretical concepts.
General Qualification
They understand the knowledge acquired during their instruction and can apply it in further studies and in professional practice.Students build and extend on knowledge and skills necessary for the performance of their profession.

Syllabus

• Places of work experience performance
• During the master's degree programme study, students need to complete a course of professional work experience in public administration and other course in social policy and social work.The order of work experience courses are the student’s individual choice.
•  Local and regional government entities,
•  Czech Social Security Administration (Česká správa sociálního zabezpečení),
•  regional branches of the Labor Office as bodies of assistance in material need,
•  Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre,
•  social care services in terms of typology of Act no. 108/2006 Sb., on Social Services, as amended,
•  services of social prevention in terms of typology of Act no. 108/2006 Sb., on Social Services, as amended,
•  facilities offering social counselling in terms of typology of Act no. 108/2006 Sb., on Social Services, as amended,
•  Bodies of social-legal child protection,
•  Prison Services of the Czech Republic,
•  Probation and Mediation Service of the Czech Republic,
•  institutional or protective care facilities.
•  other institutions and bodies of public administration and social services of the students’ own choice in view of their thesis topic

Literature

required literature
• HANÁKOVÁ, Adéla, Bohdana BŘÍZOVÁ a Lenka MOTLOVÁ [online]. Profesionální kompetence ověřované v průběhu praxe. České Budějovice: Zdravotně sociální fakulta Jihočeské univerzity v Českých Budějovicích, Katedrasupervize a odborné praxe, 2006
• HAWKINS, Peter a Robin SHOHET. Supervize v pomáhajících profesích. Praha: Portál, 2016. ISBN 978-80-262-0987-4.
• KOPŘIVA, Karel. Lidský vztah jako součást profese. Praha: Portál, 2016. ISBN 978-80-262-1147-1.
• MUSIL, L. "Ráda bych vám pomohla, ale-": dilemata práce s klienty v organizacích. Brno: Marek Zeman, 2004. ISBN 80-903070-1-9. info
• ŠANDEROVÁ, J. Jak číst a psát odborný text ve společenských vědách. Praha: Slon, 2007. ISBN 978-80-86429-40-3. info
• Standardy kvality sociálních služeb. Příloha č. 2 vyhlášky č. 505/2006 Sb., kterou se provádějí některá ustanovení zákona o sociálních službách, ve znění pozdějších předpisů.
• Zákon č. 108/2006 Sb. o sociálních službách, ve znění pozdějších předpisů.
• Etický kodex sociálních pracovníků České republiky[online]. Praha: Společnost sociálních pracovníků, 2005 [cit. 2017-7-26].Dostupné z: http://sspcr.xf.cz/code.html

recommended literature
• HAVRDOVÁ, Z. Kompetence v praxi sociální práce. Praha: Osmium, 1999. ISBN 80-902081-8-5. info
• KAPOUNOVÁ, Jana and Pavel KAPOUN. Bakalářská a diplomová práce: od zadání po obhajobu. Praha: Grada, 2017. ISBN 978-80-271-0079-8. info
• KRÁLOVÁ, J., RÁŽOVÁ, E. Sociální služby a příspěvek na péči. aktualizované a přepracované vydání. Olomouc: An, 2012. ISBN 978-80-7263-748-5. info
• MATOUŠEK, O. a kol. Metody a řízení sociální práce. Praha: Portál, 2013. ISBN 978-80-262-0213-4. info

Assessment methods

The condition for obtaining credit is 100% work experience attendance, preparation and submission of a structured written work experience report, including a recommendation statement by the facility supervisor and participation in supervisory seminars.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

Teacher's information

Instruction in person is conducted through a system of discussion consultations on selected topics in the scope of 10 hours.In this course, emphasis will be placed on the problem situations students are solving or solved as part of their professional work experience.

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