An overview of the enhanceR2P project.

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Enhancing the Readiness to Practise of NQSWs
in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Project team
 Neil Ballantyne, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, the Open
Polytechnic of New Zealand.
 Dr. Liz Beddoe, Associate Professor of Social Work ,
University of Auckland.
 Dr. Kath Hay, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Massey
University.
 Dr. Jane Maidment, Associate Professor of Social Work,
University of Canterbury.

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FTE time on task

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Issues for social work education in
Aotearoa New Zealand
 Seventeen programmes of social
work accredited using ten generic
competences.
 Vocal government and stakeholder
critique of readiness to practise
based on anecdote and opinion.
 New challenges to employers in the
form of government social service
and CYF reforms.
 Lack of clarity regarding capability
of NQSWs and capabilities at other
points in the career journey.
 To create a map of the content of the
social work curriculum in New
Zealand.
 To discover the perceptions of
students, managers and service
users on the readiness to practise of
NQSWs in Aotearoa NZ.
 To collaborate in the production of a
social work capabilities framework
with clear expectations for the social
work curriculum.
 To enable TEIs to graduate NQSWs
who are confident, capable and
ready to practise.
The problem The opportunity

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Project aims
Develop a Professional Capabilities
Framework clarifying the capabilities of
newly qualified social workers (NQSWs) and
social workers at experienced, advanced
and expert levels of practice.

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Project research questions
 What is the content of the current New Zealand social work
curriculum and how does it relate to the SWRB core
competencies?
 How well prepared are NQSWs to enter professional social
work practice and how is their learning being supported and
enhanced in the workplace?
 What professional capabilities, including cultural
capabilities, should we expect of NQSWs and of social
workers working at experienced, advanced and expert
levels of practice?

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A project in three phases

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Phase 1:
Map the curriculum
 Write a literature scan of literature relevant to the process of
curriculum mapping in professional education.
 Collect and analyse the curriculum documents of
participating TEIs.
 Create a taxonomy of Topics for Indexing Social Work
Education in Aotearoa New Zealand (TISWEANZ).
 Use the taxonomy to map the curriculum at each of the TEIs.
 Hold focus groups with one group of educators and one group
of final year students at eight of the participating TEIs.
 Write a report that profiles the social work curriculum nationally
and at individual TEIs (anonymised).

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Phase 2:
Assess the readiness to practise of NQSWs
 Write a literature scan of literature relevant to the readiness
to practise of NQSWs.
 Conduct an online survey of all NQSWs and their managers
who have been in post-qualifying practice for between six
months and one year.
 Interview a sample of NQSW students and their managers
to assess perceived readiness to practise.
 Conduct focus groups of service users to assess perceived
readiness to practise of NQSWs.
 Write a report on the readiness to practise of NQSW’s in New
Zealand

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Phase 3:
Co-produce a Professional Capabilities Framework
 Write a literature scan of literature on professional capabilities
frameworks in social work education.
 Conduct a content analysis of existing capabilities frameworks.
 Enable engagement of stakeholders using an online card
sorting exercise.
 Hold five stakeholder workshops to explore issues and gather
stakeholder input.
 Consult project reference groups on draft Professional
Capabilities Framework.
 Hold launch event for the Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work
PCF.

11. The stakeholders

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The logic model
Mission: Develop a PCF clarifying the capabilities of NQSWs and social
workers at experienced, advanced and expert levels of practice.
Context: Rapid policy change in social services environment, sustained
critique of readiness to practise of NQSWs, no shared vision of career
pathway.