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We recently discovered a wellbeing checklist via 'The Social Worker Wellbeing and Working Conditions Good Practice Toolkit' on the BASW website.
The below checklist is for you to consider. If you are following these simple steps on a daily, weekly or monthly basis you could see that small steps can make a big impact on your wellbeing.
If you answer no to some or many of these things, weigh up the impact on you for the
short and long term. Identify how you could move one or two things on. Set yourself
an achievable goal. Talk to someone helpful about the changes you want to make.
A reoccurring theme in conversations across our Teaching Partnership over the last few weeks has been how can we properly support and recognise our Practice Educators. It is a hugely rewarding and challenging role and absolutely key in ensuring that social work graduates have the right skills, values and knowledge to enter the workforce.
Local authorities within the partnership deploy, reward and support Practice Educators in different ways. Some approaches are proving very effective and we will share the learning from these initiatives and projects currently underway which are being funded by the partnership. We know though that despite all of these considerable efforts, Practice Educators need greater support and recognition, particularly when workload and staffing pressures are so intense due to the pandemic.
Cheryl Wall, Programme Manager for the West Midlands Social Work Teaching Partnership puts the spotlight on this important topic.
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Here at the Teaching Partnership, we are proud to announce that Lee Pardy-McLaughlin was awarded an OBE for service to children and families. Lee has been instrumental in the success of the Teaching Partnership. You will have heard Lee is moving on to pastures new within Stoke-on-Trent City Council as a Principal Social Worker. We all wish Lee the best of luck with his continued success in paving the way for social work and thank him for everything he has done for the profession. |
The evaluation of teaching partnerships concludes that their most important benefit has been the development of a
culture of collaborative working between Higher Education Institutions, Local Authorities and other partners in the way social work education is designed, planned and delivered. - Read the full evaluation. |
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Date: 19 January 2021 9.55am-12noon [FREE]
The aim of this webinar is to improve the quality, quantity and sustainability of practice education within the West Midlands. Providing supportive sessions to first line team managers or those with supervisory responsibilities to improve their level of confidence with facilitating student placements within their team in the current practice context (COVID-19).
If you would like to book a place on this free webinar, please email us with your full name and organisation. WestMidlandsTeachingPartnership@coventry.gov.uk
Date: Wednesday 27 January 17:00-18:30 [Free]
Sponsored by the North East Social Work Teaching Partnership, Social Work Education North East is delighted to invite you to the first in a series of webinars discussing key issues for social work in times of change and uncertainty.
Register your place
Date: Wednesday 10 February 17.00 to 18.30 hours.
Organised by: The Department of Social Work and Social Care at the University of Birmingham & the West Midlands Applied Research Collaboration
Social work has aspired to demonstrate a strengths based approach in its practice since the publication in the early 1990’s of the seminal text by Dennis Saleebey at the University of Kansas. Strengths based principles are widely accepted within the profession and reflected in contemporary social work models, good practice guidance, and recent legislation. There are though tensions between a strengths-based approach and people’s experiences of interacting with an under-resourced and over-stretched social care system.
Register and find out more about this event.
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