Professional in Practice (PiP) - NISCC Learning Zone

‘It will be a continuous journey of critical reflection, new insights and learning. Through constantly adapting your social work approach during each transition you experience, reflecting on your own learning and applying that learning to how you approach and respond to the people whose lives you enter, you will become a better social worker.’ Social Work, Cats and Rocket Science (James E. et al, 2020, p43).

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What is the Professional in Practice Framework?

The Professional in Practice (PIP) Framework is a structure designed to enable social workers to engage in learning and development using their practice experience, knowledge and skills which they can then convert into submissions for assessment. The PIP Framework:

recognises all learning both formal and informal;
offers flexibility and autonomy;
places practitioners in charge of their own professional development;
supports social workers to maintain their post registration training and learning (PRTL);
supports social workers to continue to reflect, learn and develop throughout their careers.

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Two Mandatory Requirements

Following successful completion of the AYE a further condition is placed on social workers’ registration requiring them to complete a minimum of two Professional in Practice requirements through the Professional in Practice Framework – the Two Mandatory Requirements.

Completion of the Two Mandatory Requirements is relevant to all social workers who have completed the Assessed Year in Employment (AYE) on or after the 1st April 2011.

This means they must complete a minimum of two Requirements within the Professional in Practice Framework in order to renew their registration with the Northern Ireland Social Care Council.

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More Information

To learn more about the PIP Framework, PiP Awards, how to enrol and get started, the Mandatory Two Requirements and PiP programmes and PRTL, click on the tiles below.