Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The proposals was one of three put forward by the LGA to “rapidly increase the children’s social worker workforce and retain those currently in post” in the context of vacancy rates that reached a record high of 20% last September. This is down 2.7% (868 FTE posts) since 2021 and the first fall since records began in 2017.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

full-time equivalent children’s services social work posts were held by a locum, up from 15.5% They should then agree regional caps for how much they will pay agencies per hour to engage a locum for each of the core job types. As of September 2022, 17.6% a year earlier.

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Engagement Consultation Social Worker Administration 276

Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As busy and as difficult as one’s job may be, that person may never know the challenge of needing to go to the bathroom with kids of an age or need, that require continuous supervision. If not, you are missing many more posts! To help, do instead of talk. To do so, now that is support. Therein your actions will be appreciated.

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Private Practice Counseling Mental Health Social Worker 147

Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Those were among the damning findings from a Skills for Care study assessing the performance of 23 local authorities in England against a set of race quality measures regarding their social care workforces.

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Diversity Social Worker Social Services Social Services 302

Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

There was only one left, his part time job. That job looked like something he might work for. See, he did well at that job. That job played to his strengths and was the one area he experienced satisfaction and success. So the lad will continue with his job. If not, you are missing many more posts!

Private Practice 113

Private Practice Schools Empathy Mental Health 113

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 20.1% (942) were available only on a part-time basis.

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Social Worker Interviewing Therapist Government 204

Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 10, 2024

A job is just a job Shouting “You’ve got this!” One colleague saw the troubles I had fitting in, and getting my ideas pushed through and said gently to me one evening, John, the problem isn’t that you take this as more than a job. 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

DECEMBER 10, 2021

At the same time, filled posts have fallen month-on-month since July and were 3.4% 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

MARCH 20, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. 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.

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Social Worker Government Social Services Social Services 282

Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

About a quarter of social workers said they had considered changing their occupation because of the impact of their job on their health and wellbeing, with a further 10% attributing this to job-related stress. Social workers’ quality of working life continues to decline post-lockdowns, study finds.

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Social Worker Mental Health Engagement 268

Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2024

Opening up access to social work With apprentices able to earn a salary in a council post while they learn, the DHSC said it also anticipated that the funding would enable people unable to afford to train through a traditional degree to pursue social work as a career.

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University Hospitals Government 262

Gary Direnfeld

JULY 24, 2023

The first job I landed was with a Children’s Aid Society (child protection services). Needless to say, I walked into the job totally green and set up to burn out. Happily within five months I got a job in a clinical role at a major children’s mental health centre. ” So too with jobs.

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Mental Health Private Practice Social Worker Disability 130

Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Frontline graduates ‘more stressed’ However, the reverse was true in relation to practitioner wellbeing, with Frontline graduates significantly more likely to report stress at work (73%) workloads that were too high (55%) and being asked to fulfil too many roles in their job (54%) than those who qualified through other routes.

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University Social Worker 216

Community Care

APRIL 19, 2023

The inspectorate cited examples of staff living in rural areas taking posts in London boroughs, at higher salaries, without the need to travel, in a report on the sector’s recovery from Covid, published last July. National price caps on what local authorities may pay per hour for locums. A ban on agency project teams.

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Social Worker Consultation Recovery Engagement 287

Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The government has started its quest for a new chief social worker for adults, after Lyn Romeo announced her retirement after a decade in post.

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Social Worker Government Communication 234

Community Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The media’s negative coverage of the job does not help. One local authority-employed social worker said: The view of the public is that social workers are incompetent. We need to highlight good stories.”

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Social Worker Interviewing Adoption Government 220

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

APRIL 24, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. 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.

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Hospital Discharges Social Worker Engagement Hospitals 222

Community Care

JUNE 8, 2022

Of 6,471 UK social work job adverts posted on websites including Community Care on 20 April and 20 May, just 1,212 (19%) offered part-time or flexible hours, found the Social Workers Union study. The proportion was even lower (15%) in Wales, which accounted for 9% of the jobs.

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Social Worker Government 257

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. As a new crop of kids enter high school, many of those kids will be looking for their first job. If not, you are missing many more posts! I was about 16-years-old. I lasted 3 months. I didn’t know how to sell.

Private Practice 113

Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker Counseling 113

Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 31, 2023

This WSIBAT decision may be a game changer for other Educational Assistants injured on the job. If not, you are missing many more posts! Traumatic Stress is also a serious injury resulting in workplace challenges as well as time off work. Decision No. 1741/21 Date of Decision: July 19, 2023 Are you following me on Facebook yet?

Private Practice 264

Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker Counseling 264

Community Care

MARCH 13, 2023

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. To come to work in the country, practitioners need a job offer from an employer with a sponsorship licence to hire from abroad.

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Social Worker 220

Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2023

ADCS data from June 2022 showed that almost one in five social worker posts (19%) in council children’s services were vacant, up from 14.6% Social worker shortages making job ‘unsustainable’ for some, warns Ofsted. a year previously in the 108 surveyed councils. Related articles. Care review response delayed until 2023.

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Social Worker Case Management Interviewing Consultation 202

Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. She wanted a job. So, we found her a job in the council. When speaking to Elaine James, her passion for upholding the rights of people with learning disabilities is almost infectious.

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Disability Social Worker Mental Health Hospitals 312

The Guardian

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

ONS analysis shows sector accounting for more than one in 10 of job ads posted online in December Shortages of healthcare workers are fuelling near-record numbers of job vacancies across the UK economy, with the lack of nurses, carers and other staff serving as the biggest recruitment challenge in almost every local authority area.

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Healthcare 73

Relias

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Training post-acute care professionals is essential to providing high-quality care and to the success of your organization. According to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace: 2023 Report , 51% of employees are watching for or actively seeking another job — mainly for increased pay, improved well-being, and opportunities to grow and develop.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Clinic Administration Adoption 52

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.

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Disability Interviewing Rehabilitation Consultation 52

Social Work Futures

MARCH 15, 2023

This is part of a monthly series of posts to share a few things I run across regarding the future of social work (and beyond). Sometimes I turn these signals into interesting “Social Work Jobs of the Future” as another type of foresight practice (worldbuilding and artifacts from the future in the form of new job descriptions).

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Welfare Engagement Social Worker Interviewing 228

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. If not, you are missing many more posts! For many, this is the sequel.

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Counseling Private Practice Consultation Mental Health 264

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. If not, you are missing many more posts!

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Private Practice Mental Health Counseling Social Worker 140

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 25, 2022

.” If you are unsure that you want to be an adjunct instructor, please read this post by my colleague, Dr. Trish Desrosier, at Western Kentucky University, who will explain why you might want to teach a class for your local social work program. You probably have a full-time job or do other things outside of teaching as an adjunct.

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Communication Disability Counseling Mental Health 217

Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Filled posts down by 3.1% 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. It would cost an expected £1.4bn, ADASS said. The call comes with : Vacancies up to 9.1% from April to October 2021.

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Government Home Care Social Services Social Services 253

The Guardian

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

When he would post job ads for vacancies at his five care homes in Yorkshire, he’d get very few responses. But early last year, the government opened a new immigration route, expanding the health worker visa scheme to include care workers.

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Government Nursing Home 81

Community Care

MAY 9, 2023

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Despite the symptoms of racial trauma mirroring many of those found in post-traumatic stress disorder, Thomas explained that there were some organisations that did not recognise it as a form of trauma.

Diversity 265

Diversity Social Worker Psychology University 265

Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The number of children’s social workers quitting their posts annually has risen by 40% in five years, Department for Education figures have shown. Though the size of the workforce increased over that time, this was only by 11%, from 28,496 to 31,634 FTE social workers.

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Social Worker 247

Community Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

“There are places where those managers are still holding the cases that they were holding before they were in their new jobs,” she says. Caseloads are the vital sign of social work health, in terms of what the job is and what is required of you,” says Tiotto. “So that is slightly out of our control.”

Social Worker 269

Social Worker Interviewing Consultation Government 269

Community Care

JULY 19, 2023

The successful candidate will hold the post for up to three years, earning £450 a day for 80 days’ work a year. The government is seeking a new chair for Social Work England , in the wake of Lord Patel’s resignation from the role in March.

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Government Social Worker Communication 223