Placement Providers and Types of Placements
Placement Providers
Practical placements may only be undertaken in organisations that are registered as healthcare providers, registered social service providers, or organisations whose activities include the provision of social work. Placement providers may be public, private or non-profit organisations.
Types of Placements
DIRECT CARE PLACEMENT
In the first semester, students are required to complete a placement focused on direct care services. The aim of this placement is to gain a basic understanding of comprehensive client/patient care and to acquire personal experience in direct care activities.
Students enrolled in the Clinical Social Care programme are not authorised to perform medical procedures. However, they may carry out activities falling within the competencies of a "social services worker". These are direct care activities as defined by Act No. 108/2006 Coll. (hereinafter Act 108) on Social Services :- practising basic daily living activities,
- assisting with personal hygiene and dressing,
- assisting with the handling of equipment, aids, and laundry,
- helping to maintain cleanliness and personal hygiene,
- supporting independence and self-sufficiency,
- promoting active engagement in daily life,
- facilitating social interaction and meeting psychosocial needs.
Direct care activities may also be supplemented with activation activities classified under Act 108 as "basic non-pedagogical educational activities":
- developing and reinforcing basic hygiene habits,
- supporting contact with the wider social environment,
- encouraging the development of work habits, manual skills, and work-related activities,
- organising leisure activities aimed at developing personal interests, knowledge, and creativity through art, music, and physical activities, as well as supporting recreational and cultural activities.
Examples of Suitable Placement Settings:
- Long-Term Care Hospital,
- Long-Term Care Ward,
- Hospice services - direct care placement
- Children's Centre (Infant Care Centre) - direct childcare, possibly supplemented by placement with a social worker,
- Home for Seniors - where the placement focuses on direct bedside care (may be supplemented by activation activities),
- Homes for Persons with Physical/Intellectual Disabilities - where the placement focuses on direct care (may be supplemented by activation activities),
- Personal Assistance.
Students who have already completed this type of placement through previous studies or employment may, upon submission of written evidence to the academic staff member responsible for placements, PhDr. Vlasta Řezníková, Ph.D. (vlasta.reznikova@vspj.cz), undertake a different type of practical placement of their own choice instead.
HEALTHCARE FACILITY PLACEMENT
A placement undertaken in the role of a Clinical Social Worker or Social Worker within a healthcare facility differs from a direct care placement in that the student performs activities of a Clinical Social Worker or Social Worker (no longer a "Social Services Worker"). Students are required to complete this type of placement at least once during their studies.
The placement provider must be registered in the National Register of Healthcare Service Providers and must provide social services, including the employment of a Clinical Social Worker or Social Worker.
During this placement, students work under the professional supervision of a qualified Clinical Social Worker or Social Worker.
Examples of Suitable Placement Settings:
- Psychiatric Hospital - placement with a Clinical Social Worker or Social Worker,
- Hospital - placement with a Clinical Social Worker or Social Worker,
- Long-Term Care Hospital - placement with a Clinical Social Worker or Social Worker,
- Hospice - placement with a Clinical Social Worker or Social Worker,
- Children's Centre (Infant Care Centre) - placement with a Clinical Social Worker or Social Worker.
- Day Care and Week-Stay Care Centres,
- Residential Social Care Institutions,
- Probation and Mediation Service,
- Social Activation Services for Families and Children,
- Citizen Counselling Facility,
- Children's Diagnostic Institute,
- Educational Care Centre,
- Minority Support Centre,
- Children's Home,
- Children's Home with School,
- Homeless Shelter,
- Organisations providing services to persons with specific needs,
- City, municipality with extended competence - social department or department of social affairs and healthcare:
- social benefits administration,
- social-legal protection of children, foster care services,
- youth probation and supervision services, etc.
- Labour Office,
- District Social Security Administration offices
- Special and Practical Schools
- Non-profit organisations
- Mainstream kindergartens and primary schools without a social worker,
- Family centres focused solely on leisure activities for families with children.
Students may repeat a placement within the same facility/organisation only if they undertake a different type of placement (demonstrably different activity) or if they are preparing a bachelor's thesis directly related to that facility.
It is recommended that Placement 5 be linked to the topic of the student's bachelor's thesis, particularly its practical - research part.
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