{"id":3366,"date":"2017-03-29T12:46:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T11:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:14:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:14:18","slug":"fast-track-programme-to-a-life-changing-career-in-social-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2017\/03\/29\/fast-track-programme-to-a-life-changing-career-in-social-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast-track programme to a life-changing career in social work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graduates interested in a challenging and fulfilling career\u00a0helping families are encouraged to apply for a place on\u00a0a fast-track programme to become the next generation of child and family social workers. Applications are now open for <em>Step Up<\/em> <em>to Social Work<\/em>, a 14-month programme that combines real-world experience in a local authority social work team with high-quality university training.<\/p>\n<p>Successful candidates will be awarded a post-graduate diploma in social work when they graduate, allowing them to register and practice as a social worker.<\/p>\n<p>We announced our Step up to Social Work partnership initiative with Kent County Council earlier this month and online applications are now open.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to\u00a0apply see\u00a0our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/socialwork\/step-up-to-social-work.html\">Step up to Social Work web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3368\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/files\/2017\/03\/StepUp3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3368\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/files\/2017\/03\/StepUp3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/files\/2017\/03\/StepUp3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/files\/2017\/03\/StepUp3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/files\/2017\/03\/StepUp3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/files\/2017\/03\/StepUp3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Step up to Social Work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduates interested in a challenging and fulfilling career\u00a0helping families are encouraged to apply for a place on\u00a0a fast-track programme to become the next generation of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2017\/03\/29\/fast-track-programme-to-a-life-changing-career-in-social-work\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[872],"tags":[43783,124,1080],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3383,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions\/3383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}