Save the Social Worker

JUNE 29, 2023

Sure, I learnt all about the theory, but I never formally learnt how to ‘manage a case’, until I was a social worker back in Singapore. How’s the case management for this client? How’s the case management for this client? Case management, defined Nah, case management doesn’t have to be crazy like this How is it defined?

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Case Management Government Social Worker Psychology 243

Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

Black, Asian and minority ethnic social care staff face disproportionately high levels of workplace bullying, disciplinary action and fitness to practise referrals, while also being less likely than white counterparts to be shortlisted for jobs.

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Diversity Social Worker Social Services Social Services 302

Community Care

APRIL 24, 2024

These include better outcomes for individuals and their families, a strengthened voluntary and community sector, reduced demands on formal social care services and improved job satisfaction for professionals. Her garden, which had previously been a source of great pride, had become overgrown as she did not feel able to manage the steps.

Hospital Discharges 222

Hospital Discharges Social Worker Engagement Hospitals 222

Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 10, 2024

We were doing activities like: Planning Zumba sessions for the elderly residents Doing reading programmes for kids in the void decks of rental flats This is an additional load, on top of your casework management. A job is just a job Shouting “You’ve got this!” It’s that others take this as just a job. Just a job.

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Social Worker Domestic Violence Administration Case Management 130

Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2024

About social work apprenticeships Social work apprenticeships are degree-level qualifications that generally take three years, with apprentices spending at least 20% of their time in off-the-job training, delivered by a university or other learning provider.

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University Hospitals Government 262

Community Care

APRIL 4, 2022

Newly qualified children’s social workers are struggling to manage their workloads leaving some questioning their future in the profession, Community Care’s annual caseloads survey has found. I know I won’t be doing this job forever,” they said. Caseloads bigger, more complex and harder to manage, say children’s social workers.

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Social Worker Case Management Social Services Social Services 276

Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The research also found a link between practitioners’ feelings about their workload and their job satisfaction. The wave 5 report said that 84% of those who felt dissatisfied with their job felt their workload was too high, compared with 56% of those who were satisfied.

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Social Worker 189

Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

How proposed price caps would work Councils in each of the nine English regions should come together to assign agency social work roles to the following core job types: social worker; senior social worker; advanced practitioner; team manager, and independent reviewing officers/child protection conference chairs.

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Engagement Consultation Social Worker Administration 276

MQ Mental Health

APRIL 2, 2024

In an interview with The Guardian in 2019, she discussed the toll that the job can take on her mental health and the importance of taking care of herself. Stress in the workplace can have a range of negative effects on employees, including decreased productivity, job dissatisfaction, absenteeism, and turnover. sick days a year.

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Mental Health Healthcare Hospitals Psychology 105

Community Care

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Record number of social workers The number of FTE permanent children’s social workers – including managers who are social work registered – rose by 4.7% (1,485 staff) to 33,119 in September 2023, the highest level, and the largest year on year increase, recorded. The hike was driven by a 24.9%

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Social Worker Recovery Engagement 196

Community Care

MARCH 18, 2022

Almost one in ten (9%) had had experienced racism from colleagues or managers at least five times in the past 12 months, a figure that rose to 31% among black social workers and 28% among Asian respondents.

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Social Worker Mental Health Anxiety 338

Community Care

JUNE 9, 2023

The SWU’s findings on part-time roles The union studied 4,694 UK social work adverts on Community Care, Total Jobs and The Guardian on 20 April and 18 May. However, one of the managers said, ‘ideally we want someone full time’ and I did not get the job,” they said. “I

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Social Worker Interviewing Therapist Government 204

Community Care

MARCH 20, 2024

Most social workers have seen an increase in the number of experienced colleagues quitting their jobs in the past year, according to the British Association of Social Workers’ (BASW) annual survey. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. of respondents, up from 34.9%

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Social Worker Government Social Services Social Services 282

Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Councils need more funding to manage the impact of Care Quality Commission (CQC) performance checks of adults’ services, sector leaders have warned. Assurance ‘will boost transparency’ “Right now, if you are doing a great job in social care, do people really know that? I actually don’t think so.

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Government Social Worker Social Services Social Services 231

Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Elaine James promoting the right to vote in Bradford In the services that I manage now, we’ve worked with local user groups who were campaigning about this issue long before we woke up to it. For example, the social work manager at my service once worked with somebody who had a disability and had had a profound stroke.

Disability 312

Disability Social Worker Mental Health Hospitals 312

Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

The majority [of complaints] were completely valid and deserved due to me simply not having enough time in the working day and personal time to manage the caseload I currently have.” Majority of social workers looking to leave their job within the next 16 months, says new research. ” Rising vacancies and turnover.

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Social Worker Mental Health Government Administration 268

Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2023

Crocker said that the fallout from the high-profile murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson – in each case following safeguarding failings – had bred increased public negativity to social workers, which was making the job harder and driving people into agency work. ” Criticism of agency practices. Related articles.

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Social Worker Case Management Interviewing Consultation 202

Save the Social Worker

APRIL 4, 2023

Even if you don’t have a relevant degree, if you’re willing to take a lower pay, you can enter the corporate back-office, whether it be doing corporate communications, volunteer management, or fundraising. You would also see these high-pos being sent to training programmes that teach them how to be managers and leaders. It got worse.

Social Services 130

Social Services Social Services Domestic Violence Social Worker 130

Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 30, 2023

My first part time job was selling shoes. I crossed the mall and applied for a job at another shoe store. This manager took me under his wing. As a new crop of kids enter high school, many of those kids will be looking for their first job. I am forever grateful to that manager at Murray’s Highgrade Footwear.

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Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker Counseling 113

Community Care

JUNE 7, 2022

‘Internal waiting lists’ While the study was carried out north of the border, its findings around work pressures and their impact on attitudes to the job echo many other pieces of research, including recent surveys by Community Care. Caseloads bigger, more complex and harder to manage, say children’s social workers.

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Criminal Justice Administration Social Worker Government 314

Community Care

JULY 19, 2023

As Social Work England is the responsibility of government, specifically the Department for Education, the chair must also “work closely with ministers and government officials to drive forward a clear strategic direction” for the regulator, said the DfE, in its job advertisement.

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Government Social Worker Communication 223

Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Some had sporadic jobs but otherwise lived in their bedroom or the basement mostly playing video games. With time and assuming the fellow was working when first together, his jobs slip away, and he is back to mostly watching video games. They finally get the guy in his thirties out of his parent’s house long enough to meet a gal.

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Counseling Private Practice Consultation Mental Health 264

Community Care

MARCH 21, 2023

Chris Armstrong, senior manager of recruitment agency Morgan Hunt’s social care branch, has been supporting social workers relocate from Zimbabwe and South Africa, two of the most common countries of origin for overseas practitioners, for the last three years. My manager and team were also fantastic – I can’t thank them enough.

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Social Worker Empathy Communication Interviewing 272

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Some were going into debt to manage rising costs, whether through credit cards, overdrafts or borrowing from friends and family. To manage budgets, some social workers had stopped using their car for personal purposes, cut down on groceries, heating or electricity use or, in a few cases, pulled out of their pension scheme.

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Social Worker Confidentiality Mental Health Anxiety 261

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 18, 2022

In or about 1977, I had a job. The job was to visit as many grocery stores as possible in a day. As part of the job, I was to find the frozen grocery manager and thank the person for the placement of the juice in the freezer, regardless of the number of facings. In a week I would visit over a hundred stores easily.

Private Practice 140

Private Practice Mental Health Counseling Social Worker 140

Community Care

DECEMBER 10, 2021

For care workers, the figure was 11.3%, registered managers 11.6% The parlous situation appears to have been driven by a number of factors: The government’s own estimates showing just short of 40,000 jobs being lost in the care home sector from its introduction of mandatory Covid-19 vaccination for staff in November.

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Home Care Hospitals Government Social Services 264

Community Care

AUGUST 2, 2023

According to survey findings published in March 2022 , one in four social workers had experienced racism from colleagues or managers at least once in the preceding 12 months. We must do better.” This is because their development would be invested in.”

Social Worker 164

Social Worker 164

Social Care

JULY 6, 2023

Loyalty is a two-way street I’m the HR and Payroll Manager at specialist dementia care provider, Vida Healthcare. Supporting people to make informed choices can have a huge impact on their life and help them focus on the job at hand: providing exceptional care for our residents.

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Healthcare Diversity Engagement 100

Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Managed service project teams Original proposal: councils to be prevented from using project teams, which involve agencies supplying a group of practitioners, who are often managed by the supplier rather than the authority and whose use has increased significantly in recent years, at significant cost.

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Social Worker Consultation Engagement Government 334

Community Care

MAY 17, 2022

Senior leaders had taken “creative” action on social worker recruitment and retention to ensure practitioners’ caseloads remained “manageable” in a “challenging” workforce environment, it added. Passionate and knowledgeable’. Ofsted found the council had made progress on all the recommendations from its previous inspection in 2017.

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Social Worker Schools 245

Relias

APRIL 5, 2024

To help clients with disabilities find meaningful, stable jobs, many organizations have turned to customized employment. The goals of customized employment Customized employment aims to harmonize the requirements of local businesses with the preferences, abilities, and employment conditions of job seekers.

Disability 52

Disability Interviewing Rehabilitation Consultation 52

KVC

JULY 16, 2023

“What everyone in the world wants is a good job,” says Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO of Gallup. But what exactly is a good job? Gallup defines a good job as one with 30+ hours of work a week with a consistent paycheck from an employer,” Clifton elaborates. “A So your job matters and, subsequently, your life matters.”

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Engagement Child Welfare Mental Health Foster Care 98

Community Care

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

And if you’ve got a job that makes you not want to get out of bed in the morning, that’s the time to start moving on to new challenges. People get bogged down in doing frontline practice – they get into frontline practice and they can get lost in it, it’s so busy, so complicated, and can be so challenging sometimes – the job.

Social Worker 264

Social Worker 264

Psychological Health Care

APRIL 6, 2024

While meaningful work and well managed workplaces can have a positive effect on your mental health, poorly managed workplaces, excessive workloads, poor employee relationships and customer or client aggression – among other factors – can have a significant negative and long-term impact on your mental health.

Mental Health 53

Mental Health Human Resources Psychology Communication 53

Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

Children’s social workers’ caseloads are bigger, more complex and harder to manage, taking a toll on their mental health and family life and leaving some contemplating quitting. A further 52% said their cases were “hard to manage”. I am looking for jobs away from local authority social work.”. compared with 23.9

Social Worker 322

Social Worker Mental Health Government Interventional 322

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Home care ‘highly sensitive to volumes of care’ It warned that home care businesses were “highly sensitive to the volume of hours delivered”, both because of the costs of overheads, such as employing a registered manager, training and office rent, but also because of the impacts on care workers’ salaries.

Home Care 269

Home Care Hospitals Government Social Services 269

Community Care

MAY 10, 2022

Burnout scores had decreased UK wide, suggesting that overall health and social care workers are under less stress in their jobs, despite several people mentioning burnout among themselves or colleagues in the focus groups and open-ended survey questions,” the study authors said. Related articles.

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Social Worker Human Resources University Administration 250