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Social workers less likely to have high morale or to recommend profession than in 2020, finds study

Community Care

Social workers are significantly less likely to have high morale or to recommend the profession to friends or family than in 2020, research released this week has found. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. This was strongly linked to retention risk.

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The social worker advocating for people with learning disabilities

Community Care

And last year, she was named the social justice advocate of the year at the Social Worker of the Year Awards for her work championing the rights of people with learning disabilities to vote. I felt strongly that our role as social workers was to look at what’s the biggest decision that somebody can be involved with.

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71 Common Interview Questions Every Social Worker Must Know

Social Work Haven

Preparing for interview questions you may be asked during a social work interview is vital. “By This holds true for interviews as well, where you are likely to outshine others tomorrow by preparing today. TIP #2 –The role of the social worker requires a unique set of skills. Tell us a bit about yourself.

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Moving from compliance to professional curiosity for social workers key to improvement – study

Community Care

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services. This included initiatives such as the use of social work academies to develop staff, with training days backfilled and caseloads capped. of the workforce.

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Age assessment demands on social workers must be reduced, says ADCS president

Community Care

Action must be taken to reduce the increasing demands on council social workers from age assessments of unaccompanied asylum seekers, a leading director has said. “There’s a huge social work capacity required around those age assessments,” he said.

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How to improve your social work interviewing

Save the Social Worker

What is social work interviewing? Why interview? Who do you interview? How do you interview? How do you interview better? Think about social work interviewing… and your mind might hark back to the scenes in CSI Miami. Is this social work interviewing? Why interview?

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Moving from compliance to professional curiosity for social workers key to improvemen – report

Community Care

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services. This had led to “unparalleled dependency”, whose numbers had grown by 13% over the same period, accounting for 17.6% of the workforce.