Overview
BSc (Hons) Social Work at UWE Bristol offers the grounding you need to become a skilled social worker with the professional skills, knowledge base and placement experience that will help you stand out. This Social work degree in UK is designed to give you both academic knowledge and practical expertise.
Learn to work with service users, carers and other professionals to enhance wellbeing. Gain the critical understanding, experience and skills to make informed judgements in complex situations. Explore contemporary issues in social work while benefiting from a Social work degree in UK that focuses on real-world application.
You’ll be taught by experienced and enthusiastic staff, most of whom are registered social workers.
Get a direct route into practice with 170 days on placement through our links with a variety of partner agencies. Gain exposure to a variety of social work roles in statutory, voluntary, private and independent organisations. This Social work degree in UK also gives you the chance to study in UK, gaining international exposure and valuable professional opportunities.

University Details
At UWE Bristol, we’re focused on solving future global challenges through outstanding learning, world-leading research and a culture of enterprise. At UWE Bristol, we are fixated on resolving future global challenges through world-leading research, outstanding learning and a culture of enterprise. Here, we inspire our students to make a choice and to choose a university that pushes itself as much as it pushes them. To select a community of original thinkers – leading the way and breaking new boundaries. We provide professional mentoring to business incubators from our enterprise support programmes to industry masterclasses. We give our students the tools they need to act on their ideas and make them happen with world-leading research facilities to work experience opportunities across the globe.
Duration: 3 Years
Delivery mode :On Campus
Entry Criteria
- GCSE: Grade C/4 or above in English Language or Literature and Mathematics, or equivalent. We do not accept Level 2 Key Skills, Functional Skills or Certificate in Adult Literacy and Numeracy as alternatives to GCSEs.
- IELTS – overall 7, not less than 6
- Campus : Gold Coast
- Intakes : Semester 1
- View Details : https://courses.uwe.ac.uk/L500 /social-work


Course Outcome
When you finish, you’ll be eligible to apply for registration as a social worker with the HCPC – something you need to do to practice as a social worker in England. You’ll be qualified to work with adults or children and apply for jobs in the statutory, voluntary, and independent or private sector. Many students get work with their placement organisations, in positions such as care coordinator, care officer, family social worker, social worker, and support worker.