Full time
1 year
14-SEP-24
Postgraduate Diploma
Sexual Abuse Victim: Support / Counselling Sexual / Marital Relationships: Counselling Domestic Violence Victim: Support / Counselling
Taught
Our Domestic and Sexual Violence degree aims to enhance your knowledge and skills to boost your prospects for a career working with victims and/or perpetrators of domestic and sexual violence. The course promotes the important link between academic learning and real-world practice.
This postgraduate course has built on our teaching and research experience over the last decade. The course is delivered by the Centre for Violence Prevention, whose staff specialise in a range of disciplines across this sector. Our reputation in research continues to grow, and you can expect to learn from, and be supervised by, leading academics in the field.
Key features
Where could it take you?
Our Domestic and Sexual Violence degree will prepare you for a range of careers working with victims and/or perpetrators of domestic and sexual violence, including:
Violence prevention
Victim support for survivors of abuse
Working with abuse perpetrators
Working with adults, young people or children in domestic abuse support roles
You will develop a range of skills on this course that should have an immediate and positive impact on your professional role.
For those who would like to start working in the areas of domestic or sexual violence, your increased knowledge and skill-set should prepare you for future job applications.
For those already working in this sector, you will enhance your ability to critically reflect on your professional practice and make valuable contributions to service improvement.
For this course (per year)
£4,500
To be confirmed
Prospective students will be required to have: A relevant first degree gained at a 2.1 (or equivalent level) in a health related or social science discipline, or similar subject discipline or A relevant professional qualification and experience, including but not exclusively, Social Work, Police, Probation, Health and Education or Significant experience of working with victims and/or perpetrators of domestic or sexual violence over at least 12 months. You may also be required to provide an Enhanced DBS check subject to module selection.
Located in a historic cathedral city in the West Midlands and only 45 minutes from Birmingham, the University of Worcester is home to 10,000 students and 1,000 staff. It offers a broad choice of postgraduate degree courses alongside state-of-the-art research and study facilities. The university is spread across four sites. St John’s, City and Severn campuses are all located within Worcester and are a short walk from each other, meaning...more
Full time | 1 year | 14-SEP-24
Full time | 1 year | 14-SEP-24