Information for practice centres and practice guidance

Dear practice partners,

Thank you very much for your interest and your willingness to be available as a practice centre for our students.
The practical phases represent central professional qualification phases in order to test professional competences and develop one's own professional identity. In this respect, you as a practice centre and as supervisors play an important role in the qualification of the students.
We look forward to a successful theory-practice transfer and a good exchange between the learning locations practice and university, during the internship and beyond.
If you have any questions, concerns or suggestions regarding the content or organisation of your internship, please do not hesitate to contact us.
We are also available to deal with problems or conflicts during the internship and, if necessary, will talk to you and the intern together.

Antonia Hempe and Theresa Hykel
Social workers and counsellors in the Social Sciences Practice Unit at the HTWK

Mail:praxisreferat.soz (at) htwk-leipzig.de
Phone: 0341/ 3076-4419

in person: Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 145, 04277 Leipzig | Room LI 017 in the Lipsius Building of the HTWK

Postal address:
HTWK Leipzig
Faculty of Architecture and Social Sciences
Praxisreferat Sozialwissenschaften
Postfach 301166
04251 Leipzig

• Institution or organisation of a public, independent or private commercial social work provider
• Tasks in the fields of social work are performed to a sufficient extent
• Direct and continuous client contact

For the duration of the internship, you are a training partner of the HTWK and conclude an internship contract together with the university and the intern.

The practice centre...

• ensures that the practical phase is located in a field of social work suitable for the qualification;
• ensures through its institutional and conceptual framework conditions for the specialisation internship in internship module II that both intervention-oriented and social administration skills can be acquired during the internship;
• guarantees regular and qualified practical guidance by a state-recognised social worker or socio-educational specialist, whereby practical guidance should be anchored as a qualified activity feature in the workload or job description;
• enables the supervising specialist to participate in further and advanced training;
• enables students to participate in events related to the practical field (service meetings, network/committee meetings, supervision, conferences, further training, etc.);
• releases the students for the practical courses (theory-practice seminar and supervision) at the HTWK.

The practice supervisor...

• has one of the followingdegrees:
  • "State-recognised social worker/social pedagogue" or "State-recognised social worker/social pedagogue" (Diplom FH/ BA, Bachelor)
  • a degree equivalent to this degree on the basis of the Unification Treaty or
  • university degree in the field of social work/social pedagogy
• has been working in the practice centre for at least one year
• is the intern's direct contact person and role model for social professional behaviour and thus a key person in the internship
• regularly (weekly/fortnightly) takes time for structured reflection discussions with the intern
• orients the guidance towards the learning objectives of the students in the internship: acquisition of professional competence, development of professional identity and enhancement of academic reflection skills;
• draws up a learning objective agreement together with the intern 2 weeks after the start of the internship and writes a qualified reference at the end of the internship (an information sheet on writing the reference can be found here).

Further information can be found in the brochure Qualification in studies and practice - recommendations for practical guidance in social work of the Federal Association of Practice Supervisors at Universities of Applied Sciences for Social Work (BAG)