AIM
Level 4
QN: 610/2056/4
Curriculum Active
AIM Qualifications Level 4 Certificate in Professional Development (Youth Work)
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by AIM . Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 690 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 4
Awarding Body
AIM
Syllabus Units
23 Units
Guided Hours
690 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Conflict Transformation and Trauma Informed Practice in Youth Work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the nature of conflict and related perspectives and social/psychological models
- Understand the role of power in conflict, and related theories
- Understand the role of trauma in conflict
- Understand the role of change processes in conflict transformation
2
Critical Youth Work Practice - Opening Up Gendered Worlds
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the strengths and weaknesses of a range of approaches that influence sensitive practice regarding issues of gender
- Be able to develop and implement a small, critical and participatory enquiry project to open up gender related issues of significance to the young people they work with
- Be able to identify a range of methods and use at least two to a)
- reflect on the process of the research and b) share the findings with others, to amplify the issues raised
3
Critical Youth Work Practice – Exploring Gendered Worlds
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand and be able to use current and ever-changing vocabulary to account for the social experience of gender
- Be able to recognise gendered scripts and practices that limit young people’s access to opportunities and/or the exercise of their human rights
- Understand the ways young people find to negotiate gendered scripts
4
Detached Youth Work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the language of detached Youth
- Work, both in terms of meaning and value
- Understand the contexts in which detached Youth
- Work may take place
- Be able to identify detached Youth
- Work approaches and appropriate responses to a range of issues
- Be able to evaluate own detached Youth
- Work practice
5
Digital Youth Work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand what is meant by digital Youth
- Understand the role of Youth
- Work in assisting young people to make the most of the digital world
- Understand safeguarding in the context of digital Youth
- Evaluate own practice and approaches to online and digital Youth
6
Introduction to Professional Development (Youth Work)
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the characteristics of the Youth
- Work relationship and the processes, values and conditions helpful for its formation
- Examine the role of Youth
- Work, particularly the Youth
- Work relationship, in the context of wider services working with young people including possible benefits, challenges and tensions inherent in this context
- Be able to critically examine own professional development in relation to own Youth
- Work knowledge, experience and practice
7
Leadership and Management in Youth Work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand what is meant by leadership and management within a Youth
- Work setting
- Understand how to strategically lead a service area to maximise collaboration with delivery partners within the sector
- Understand how differing Youth
- Work leadership approaches can enhance the outcomes for young people in different practice settings
- Be able to demonstrate own leadership style through the planning and delivery of a youth focused project
- Understand own practice and approaches to leadership and management
8
Mental Health and Wellbeing in Youth Work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the components and theoretical underpinning of mental health and wellbeing
- Understand specific factors that may affect an individual’s mental health and wellbeing
- Understand statutory and legal frameworks in relation to young people’s mental health and wellbeing
- Understand the difference between deficit and recovery/strengths models of mental health
- Understand frameworks and resources to increase mental health and wellbeing
- Be able to use a range of frameworks and resources to support a young person’s mental health and wellbeing
- Be able to review the outcomes of the support provided and assess its effectiveness
9
Race, Racism and their Relationship to Youth Work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand definitions of racism and institutional power
- Understand key theoretical frameworks for analysing racism and its intersection with gender, class, and other social divisions of power
- Understand policy approaches to race and racism in the UK and how they have influenced Youth
- Be able to draw on research evidence and own reflective practice to identify effective professional practice
10
Strength-Based Approaches to Youth Work Practice
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand strengths-based approaches and the application of the same in Youth
- Work practice
- Be able to evaluate the theory of Positive Psychology and reflect on its contribution to strength-based approaches
- Understand and reflect on the importance of a strength-based relationship and the skillset required for its practice in Youth
- Be able to evaluate own practice and approaches, the importance of SELF, self-awareness and the purposeful “use of self” in cultivating strength-based practice in Youth
11
Therapeutic Youth Work – Terminology, Methods and Theory
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand intersectional disadvantage and how this impacts young people’s wellbeing
- Understand the terminology and approaches that inform Therapeutic Youth
- Work practice
- Understand the underpinning theoretical considerations that inform Therapeutic Youth
- Understand the value of healing – centred engagement in Youth
- Be able to develop and demonstrate an understanding of the Therapeutic Youth
12
Therapeutic Youth Work in Practice
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to develop and demonstrate an understanding of the 4 key tenets of Therapeutic Youth
- Work Practice, therapeutic alliance and the model of Therapeutic Youth
- Be able to critically explore Therapeutic Youth
- Work in practice
- Be able to critically evaluate and analyse safeguarding considerations in Therapeutic Youth
- Be able to critically evaluate the impact of Therapeutic Youth
- Work in own practice
13
Youth Work and Disability
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the different models of disability and their impact on inclusive Youth
- Work practice
- Understand the different elements of a rights-based approach to disability
- Understand the key elements of intersectionality, mainstreaming and co-production, in the context of young disabled people
- Understand the key elements of inclusive practice in working with young disabled people
14
Youth Work and Faith
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand faith-based Youth
- Work sufficiently to engage effectively with Youth Workers and young people from a range of faith traditions
- Examine the strengths, challenges and tensions that exist within faith-based Youth
- Work and how these manifest in training, practice and its relationship with civil society
- Be able to explore how to engage effectively and work inclusively and holistically with young people from a range of faith backgrounds
15
Youth Work and LGBTQ+
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the context and influence of LGBTQ+ history on current LGBTQ+ Youth
- Work practice
- Understand the relationship between equality, Youth
- Work and anti-discriminatory practice within an LGBTQ+ social identity frame
- Understand the role that Youth
- Work plays in supporting and providing relevant and competent services for young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (LGBTQ+)
- Be able to assess own practice within a reflective process to strengthen self-awareness and ability to analyse
16
Youth Work and Local Strategy, Local Youth Partnerships and Related Structures
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand definitions of ‘place’, how place and local are defined and who they are defined by
- Understand the role ‘need’ and ‘assets’ play in shaping local provision, structures and strategies, and key tools and resources that support quality assessment
- Understand the systems and structures required to support a local ecosystem, and the role of youth provision within and in support of wider systems
- Understand the role of evaluation and learning in partnership working, collaboration and local infrastructure
- Evaluate practice and approaches to Local Strategy, local youth partnerships and related structures as they relate to their role and work setting
17
Youth Work and Social Pedagogy in Children’s Social Care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the role of Youth Workers in promoting the welfare and development of young people, considering legislation, guidance and frameworks in safeguarding systems and care and leaving care services
- Understand how social pedagogy’s conceptual tools align with Youth
- Work values and principles when promoting a young person’s holistic and social development
- Understand research and evidence that has resulted in contextual and complex approaches to safeguarding young people
- Be able to explain how Youth
- Work can enable the inclusion, development and participation of young people in care and leaving care services
18
Youth Work and Social Work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand what is meant by Youth
- Work approaches and Social
- Work approaches
- Understand differences in professional approaches
- Understand the impact of the differences in professional approaches on the people being worked with
- Understand the opportunities and tensions that arise when seeking to apply Youth
- Work principles and approaches in identified practice settings
- Identify ways to reduce tensions and maintain professional integrity
19
Youth Work and Youth Justice
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand what is meant by youth justice
- Understand the historical, social and legal context for youth justice
- Understand youth justice policy and processes and alternative approaches
- Understand how youth work approaches can support young people involved in the youth justice system
20
Youth Work Approaches to Violence, Gangs and Exploitation
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand what is meant by violence, gangs and exploitation
- Understand contexts, causes and consequences of violence, gangs and exploitation
- Understand how Youth
- Work approaches can respond to violence, gangs and exploitation
- Be able to evaluate own practice and approaches to violence, gangs and exploitation
21
Youth Work Approaches to Working in the Secure Estate
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the purpose and structure of the secure estate
- Understand the context and experience of the young person within the secure estate
- Understand how youth work practice maintains an asset-based approach to practice within a secure estate
- Understand the skills needed to manage self and others within the secure estate environment
22
Youth Work in Formal Education
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the role of a Youth Worker when working in formal educational settings
- Understand the differences between formal, informal and non-formal education
- Understand the working context and demands of formal education and how Youth Workers can work collaboratively to support young people
- Be able to critically evaluate practice dilemmas and complexities of working in formal educational settings
23
Youth Work Participation and Democracy
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the range of ways youth participation can be defined and communicate its connection to democracy and young people’s human rights
- Understand the various forms and types of youth participation in democratic society and the barriers young people may face to engaging in them
- Understand the role that youth work can play in enabling young people’s participation
- Be able to evaluate own practice and approaches to enabling young people's participation
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 610/2056/4
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- AIM
- Qualification Type
- Occupational Qualification
- Operational Start
- Jan 2023