Youth Work & Community Practice, BA (Hons)

Our Youth Work and Community Practice course is exciting and innovative. It is professionally validated by the National Youth Agency, which means it leads to Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) recognition.

When you successfully complete the course, you will become a JNC-qualified Professional Youth Work and Community Practice Practitioner.

In addition to the JNC professional qualification, we offer the opportunity to gain additional qualifications throughout the course. These may include the following:

• First aid at work
• Sports coaching qualifications
• Mentoring
• Counselling skills
• Child sexual exploitation

Our professional practice placement modules which is offered throughout the three years of study, will give you the opportunity to work with young people in a range of settings including schools, youth centres, outdoors or on a one-to-one basis.

We also work closely with the team from the Centre for Volunteering and Community Leadership (CVCL) who offer placements and opportunities in over 300 voluntary sector organisations.

You will have the opportunity to study modules relating to young people in sport, or young people’s mental health in addition to core modules in Youth Work and Community Practice, making it a relevant and modern course.

The course is also directly linked to the Journal of Community Research, which means you will have the opportunity to submit a research paper to this peer reviewed journal.

First year students can also take part in residential trip to the Coldwell Activity Centre near Burnley. This offers a fun way to bond, learn from each other, and build outdoor skills for working with young people.

Diploma from a technical / vocational or health college / institute with a GPA of 2.0/5 or 60-64%

Successful completion of on year of appropriate study at a recognised KSA university with a GPA 2.5/5 (65-69%)

Diploma from a technical / vocational or health college / institute with a GPA of 2.5/5 (65-69%)