14 Oct 2025 (Intake closed)
Apply by: 23 Sep 2025
New Session
13 Jan 2026 (Available)
Apply by: 23 Dec 2025
New Session
Course overview
The Practice Educator Refresher Course is designed for Practice Educators whose currency has lapsed – this means those who have not supported a social work learner for over two years. The course aims to refresh and update the knowledge and practical skills needed to return to practice as an effective Practice Educator. It focuses on supporting, facilitating, supervising, teaching, and assessing social work learners within practice education settings.
Depending on how long the Practice Educator status has lapsed, refreshers will be required to attend between two and five days of the Practice Educator Course to renew their currency.
Completion of the Refresher Course is mandatory before taking responsibility for a new social work learner.
Funding
£0.00
This is a free refresher course
Why choose HERTS?
Excellent sector connections: we have extensive links with eight NHS Trusts and Local Authorities in Hertfordshire.
Links with over 98 NHS Trusts and Local Authorities in East Anglia and London regions.
Flexibility: we provide flexible study options to ensure you can fit CPD study around your busy professional and personal lives.
Location: the main University of Hertfordshire campus is 25 minutes from London with easy access by both road and rail services.
Course details
Course leader
Ms Kim Tran
Administrator
Viki Bylo healthshortcourses@herts.ac.uk
Telephone
01707 284800
Course delivery
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Prerequisites
Applicants must be qualified social workers, registered with Social Work England (SWE), with at least two years of post-qualified experience, and currently employed within a social work setting.
Applicants must be qualified Stage 1 & 2 Practice Educators.
Learning objectives
The course aims to refresh and update the knowledge and practical skills needed to return to practice as an effective Practice Educator, in line with the Practice Education Professional Standards (PEPS) 2022.
By the end of the course, refreshers will be able to:
Refresh their knowledge of placement paperwork.
Revisit and apply adult learning theories, supervision models, and assessment frameworks to support social work learners.
Demonstrate effective supervision, teaching, facilitation, and assessment skills to promote high-quality practice learning experiences.
Promote and embed EDI (Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion), anti-oppressive, anti-discriminatory, and anti-racist practices within practice education.
Critically reflect on their own practice as a Practice Educator, identifying areas for continuous professional development.
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