Community Care
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Social Work England has finalised training standards for approved mental health professionals (AMHPs) and the new role of approved mental capacity professional (AMCP) following consultation. The social work regulator made minor changes to its draft proposals for each set of standards on the back of feedback from 47 respondents to the AMHP consultation and 31 to the AMCP one.
Social Work Futures
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Here’s a collection of links that I’ve been gathering up the last year – exploring the future of higher education. They come at the subject from a wide variety of angles – and represent a continuing horizon scan of things I’m interested in, and may be of interest to colleagues across higher ed. This sector is shifting and evolving just as most are.
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Community Care
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Northern Ireland’s health and social care (HSC) trusts will have to stop using agency social workers from next June, its Department of Health (DoH) has said. Staff working through agencies at the trusts, which deliver statutory social services in the country, are being offered permanent contracts, a process that will take “a number of months”, said the country’s chief social worker.
Gary Direnfeld
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
I have had several messages and conversations this week about violence in schools. They were all unrelated. They all had the same themes. Those themes included disbelief at the intensity and frequency of violent events across all age of students. The other theme was the disbelief that instead of walking out the disruptive student, the entire class is evacuated from the classroom instead.
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Community Care
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Almost all councils lack the funding or the workforce to meet adult social care costs this winter, their directors have warned. Ninety four per cent of directors disagreed that they had sufficient money to fund care over the coming months, while the same proportion disagreed that there were enough social care staff locally to meet needs this winter, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) survey.
Social Work Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Photo of demonstrators at the 2018 Women’s March from Mirah Curzer of Unsplash. By Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA. The political climate approaching the 2022 Midterm Elections may very well be ranked with the years leading up to the Civil War as a period when the nation was facing the greatest threat to democracy. While that danger has by no means dissipated, it has certainly has been stalled by the Midterm Elections outcome.
Social Work Update brings together the best content for social work professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Doin' The Work
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Episode 59 Guest: Turquoise Skye Devereaux, MSW Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW. www.dointhework.com. Listen/Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Stitcher , Spotify. Follow on Twitter & Instagram , Like on Facebook. Join the mailing list Support the podcast Download transcript. We are now offering our Racial Justice & Liberatory Practice Continuing Education Series at Columbia University , Michigan State University , and the University of Houston.
The New Social Worker
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
COVID-19 caused a steep decline in all adoptions. However, prior to the pandemic, important demographic changes were already occurring across public and private adoptions. These changes have important implications for social workers.
The Guardian
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Doctors and nurses fear they will be unable to cope with flu, Covid and cost of living crisis, bosses say Doctors and nurses are “absolutely frightened and petrified” about how bad this winter will be for the NHS in England, hospital bosses have revealed. Staff fear services will not be able to cope with a combination of flu, resurgent Covid, winter and the cost of living crisis damaging people’s health, and also the wave of looming strikes over pay.
Bipolar Bandit
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
For More Quotes: 50 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire (#1). 65 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire (#2). 35 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire (#3). 45 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire (#4). 25 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire (#5). 30 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire (#6). 30 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire Part 7. 30 Mental Health Quotes that Inspire Part 8.
Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.
You may have the clinical skills to manage a private practice, but your success could actually hinge on marketing skills. For a thriving practice, you need to differentiate yourself from others and present yourself in a way that attracts referrals. These days, much of that happens online, including on social media. In this webinar, Gary Direnfeld will discuss how social media marketing can help you build your private practice and grow your client base.
The Guardian
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
My aunt, Joan Bailey, who has died aged 91, was a hugely generous character, committed to helping improve the lives of people less fortunate than herself. She worked as a nurse for many years, then moved into social work at Springfield hospital in Tooting, south-west London, which specialises in mental health. She finished her career as a social worker in Wandsworth, but continued to volunteer in healthcare, firstly as an HIV buddy for the Terrence Higgins Trust and more recently as a healer.
Beautiful Voyager
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
An act of love: the making of a new Loóna dreamscape. As someone who works in both technology and mental health, I get emails about new apps. A lot of emails. Like 5-10 a week. For the most part, I scan through the press releases and just keep moving. “Nothing new here",” I often think to myself. A few months ago, one of those emails caught my eye. Was it the mention of the 2021 Apple Design Award that did it?
The Guardian
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
We’d like to speak to social care staff and patients and their loved ones about how they are being affected Patients who are fit to be discharged occupy up to one in three hospital beds in some parts of England due to chronic shortages in social care provision. There are about 165,000 care job vacancies , according to figures from Skills for Care published last month, which also showed that the social care workforce had shrunk for the first time in close to a decade despite rising demand.
Relias
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Managing competency evaluations is time-intensive, and gaps in skills or knowledge can sometimes go unnoticed. Many post-acute care agencies continue to use outdated paper-based evaluation processes, which are difficult to track and prone to errors. With the right tools, you can streamline the process, minimize errors, and provide quality care to your patients and residents.
Gateway Foundation
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Alcohol addiction is a complex disease that has affected the lives of many famous people for various reasons. Some find the pressure of being in the spotlight too much, turning to alcohol as a coping mechanism. Many grew up as child actors and felt unprepared for stardom which led them to develop mental health conditions later in life. Others find themselves surrounded by substances at parties and other events common to the celebrity lifestyle.
The Guardian
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Jacqui Shurlock of the Fostering Network applauds the retailer’s Christmas ad for highlighting the importance of kindness and human connection. Plus letters from Sue Edwards and Brian Ronson Stuart Heritage has totally missed the mark with his cynical article ( John Lewis Christmas advert: the most unapologetically depressing thing in human history, 10 November ).
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