Social Work

Make a difference to people and communities

Social Workers strive to improve lives and are committed to combating inequality. Recognising compassion and support are key to improving social, financial, environmental and cultural wellbeing.

Our Bachelor of Social Work with Honours has been designed with direct industry input to reflect current and emerging practice trends in the profession. You’ll learn how to respond to social justice, human rights and socio-environmental challenges in ways that are culturally responsive, principled, regenerative, sustainable and effective. Identifying and addressing any external issues that may impact on wellbeing or may create inequality, injustice and discrimination.

Our course focus is applied learning opportunities that include community, health, and human services agencies. Through placement, students establish their professional identity while contributing to our community as agents of change. An unexpected benefit of studying social work is the introspection and self-development it inspires. Many students find their perspective on different social issues have changed or been challenged through their course work and through hearing the perspectives of others.

In your third and fourth years of studying the Bachelor of Social Work with Honours, you’ll complete a minimum of 1,000 hours of professional experience placement. These placements offer unique opportunities to participate in professional activities, learn about the practice of social work and meet people currently working in the field.

Become an ethical communicator

Social Workers strive to improve lives and are committed to combating inequality. They recognise that compassion and support are fundamental to improving social, financial, environmental and cultural wellbeing. Whether they have faced their own challenges or just want to give back, our students are looking for a meaningful and impactful career.

The Master of Social Work (Qualifying) prepares students for generalist social work practice, helping them to develop core knowledge, skills and values that can be applied across fields and methods of social work practice.

In this course, you will learn to respond to social justice, human rights and socio-environmental challenges in ways that are culturally responsive, principled, regenerative, and effective. Threaded through the course is a focus on decolonising, Indigenising, sustainability, collaboration, and innovation in social work, ensuring that as a graduate, you are well-equipped for new and diverse roles in changing workplaces. Our courses focus on applied learning opportunities that include community, health, and human services agencies. Over two years, you’ll complete a minimum of 1,000 hours of supervised professional field education placement.

The Master of Social Work (Qualifying) is an Australian Association of Social Workers accredited qualification. It is an entry qualification into the social work profession and has been determined to meet the Australian Social Work Education and Accreditation Standards.

Supporting people to manage their mental health

The Diploma of Counselling is an introductory course that provides graduate with the skillset to understand human behaviour.

Students explore a range of topics including mental health, the impact of chronic health conditions on quality of life, foundational mental health intervention skills, and applied counselling skills.​ Studies will focus on adopting healthy thoughts and behaviours as part of a self-care approach, introducing you to a range of skills to manage stress and enhance well-being of yourself and others through lifestyle, mindfulness, and positive psychology.​

Students undertake the Diploma of Counselling for a variety of reasons, as a complimentary skillset to support their existing career, people managers looking to support their staff, and to build understanding in mental health to support self and others.

If you are interested in further study, you can progress with credit into the Bachelor of Psychological Science to continue your journey in the study of psychology and counselling.

If you are interested in becoming a registered counsellor you will need to complete the Graduate Diploma of Counselling where you’ll be eligible to register with the Australian Counselling Association.