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Adult Principal Social Workers network meeting

05 February 2020

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Last minutes are available on the website https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Learning- development/social-work/principal-social- workers/adults/Adults.aspx

New PSW’s?

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Chairs update

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• Consultation with ICP (The Institute of Public Care) about the refresh of

ASCOF measures

• Two webinars to be released – aspiring and new PSW’s
• Meeting with President/Vice President of ADASS to look at the PSW role

in ADASS.

• Video for Return to SW, Video and Podcast for NICE
• Judge for Skills for Care Awards
• World SW Day (see flyer)

Theme: PSW Survey

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• https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2019/11/28/almost-half-

principal-social-workers-spending-two-days-less-psw-role-survey- finds/

• 144 PSWs who responded to the survey (41% of the total

number), 81 worked in adults’ services, 60 worked in children’s services and 3 covered both.

• Three-quarters of respondents were female
• 86% were white
• two-thirds were aged 45-59
• 3% had a disability

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“The PSW network takes diversity seriously and we wish to welcome social workers into the PSW role from a wide range of backgrounds, beliefs, experience and culture”

Recommendations

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• 1. Facilitating flexible ways for cascading information and improving

networking beyond of the meeting cycle

• 2. Ensuring opportunities for PSWs to share their successes and good

practice examples will have multiple benefits including raising the profile

• f PSW role and impact, supporting shared learning, avoiding duplication
• f effort and improving consistency of approach
• 3. Creating opportunities for PSWs to learn and develop in their role,

support for mentoring/buddying arrangements between new and established PSWs

• 4. Continued activity is required to promote the role and profile of PSWs.

Opportunities to influence and shape national policy are seen as valuable and should continue to be explored.

• 5. Further opportunities for CPD

Chief Social Workers National Update

Fran Leddra Chief Social Worker and Mark Trewin Mental Health Lead DHSC

February 2020 PSW Network Meeting

Our First 4 Months

• Engaging with all the policy work across Departments
• Fully involved in Social Work transformation including White Paper
• Actively involved in briefing Ministers
• Firmly imbedded in the LPS work
• Autism Strategy and the review of social work in PFA work
• When You Care Every Day Makes A Difference recruitment campaign
• Attended Social Work awards and Skills for Care Accolades
• Roll out of Supervisors Standards development programme

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Looking Forward :

• Autism : Review of Social work when preparing for adulthood
• Supervisors Development : As PSW how are you going to embed?
• Annual report Priorities
• ADASS Spring Conference
• Guidance on Safeguarding People with Dementia
• Loneliness Study for Social Work
• Social Work in Disasters Practice Guidance

Mental Health Social Work Lead - Update

Mark Trewin: MHSW lead, office of the chief social worker

The CSW role: Social Work and Partnerships

From the CSW annual report 2019:

• To promote the value and contribution that social work and

social workers bring to the health and social care system

• To strengthen social work in integrated mental health

services, community and hospital health care services and specialist mental health and mental capacity roles

• To promote new models of integration and partnership

working where social work values are respected

Social Work with Adults - the National

Social Work at the heart of Govt policy

Policy advice:

• Green Paper Prevention
• Social Care reform
• Liberty Protection Safeguards
• Breathing Space

Partnership Working: Drivers: Challenges:

Govt Plans for Social Care NHSE Long Term Plan NHSE Community MH Framework STP/ICS/Health and Wellbeing boards Better Care Fund MHA review: s117, care planning Care Act, Equality Act, HRA Children and Families Act 2014 Organisational rather than personal Separate funding arrangements Different cultures and objectives Separate performance criteria Leadership on all sides Pressures of Austerity Care Act and MCA Demand management/flow

The HEE ‘New Roles’ in mental health project

• 8 groups exploring new and enhanced SW

roles across all parts of MH services: Pharmacy; Physicians Associates; Psychology; Nursing; Nursing Associates; OT/AHP; Peer Support; Social Work

• Work within the key enablers of workforce:

Transformation/improvement; Supply, UpSkilling, New Roles, New Ways of Working, Leadership

• The Social Work Task and Finish group

developed a list of possible projects to develop integrated health and Social Care services across all aspects of MH – supported by £400K from HEE.

New roles in MH Social Work Implementation group

We have two Feb 2020 conferences organised to launch the work we are doing:

• 1. Development practical support for NHS Trusts employing social

workers

• 2. Developing and supporting the AMHP role: Briefings, E learning, Videos
• 3. Developing CPD, career pathway and post qualifying support for SWs in

Mental Health services, with Social Work England

• 4. Commissioning NHS Benchmarking to undertake a comprehensive Data

survey of MHSW and AMHPs across all agencies

• 5. Developing models of partnership via Social Work for better MH project
• 6. Developing a specific web page for MHSWs
• 7. Support for Forensic SW around standards and social supervision
• 8. Developing joint working with Children’s Social Care at DoE

Social Work for Better Mental Health

• Launched in 2016 with a strategic statement,

a self evaluation and the views of service users

• Professional Leadership, staff opinions,
• rganisational development all considered
• 62 locations with social workers in

integrated MH Trusts have completed the process

• Learning about 20 years of integration in MH

services - why organisations have struggled

• r succeeded. Developing new models of

partnership & integration

Making the NHS a good place to work for Social Workers

Ensure that SW is well led and linked to the LA and teaching partnerships Ensure the professional needs of SW as a regulated profession is respected Ensure effective multidisciplinary team working that values social work Enabling practice development through CPD and post qualifying training Ensure that performance management systems are relevant for social work Enabling engagement and wellbeing with the SW workforce Ensure that there is a diverse workforce at all levels Be clear how the SW workforce is valued and making a difference Work with HEE; NHS Employers, NHS CONFED, NHS England and the NHS People Plan

Workforce, New Roles and AMHPs

• Development of an AMHP workforce plan and standards

agreed across DHSC, LGA, NHSE, HEE, Skills for Care, AMHP leads group, ADASS, Social Work England etc

• Developed to promote a consistence approach to the AMHP

role and support of AMHPs with AMHP Service standards.

• Development of the AC/RC role across 4 professions
• Support understanding of AMHP role in govt departments.

Implement MHA review White Paper + APPG recs

• Joint London arrangements; spending review bids etc

MHA Review and LT Plan: SW workforce issues

Community MH Framework:

• 660 proposed new SW staff
• A new framework for integrated community MH

services - A strength based model with joint commissioning across health and Soc Care

• Development of regional ICS workforce plans

across agencies

• MHA Review:
• Consistent availability & New roles for AMHPs -

based on workforce predictions

• S12 Dr availability issues

Fast Track MH Social Work programme

• DHSC funded for 5 yrs - currently out to procurement
• Producing 100 new MH Social Workers each year
• Targeting people with existing degrees or careers to transfer

to social work

• Based in integrated LA/NHS Community Mental Health

teams – most join NHS MH services

• HEE considering how to support the project in future

The Living Room project

Maff Potts, Camerados

Digital Capabilities for Social Work

Mark Nicholas, NHS England Godfred Boahen, BASW

PSW Regional support, activity and impact

Table discussions

Lunch

Enabling positive change in social work

Jess McEwen Regional Engagement Lead (Midlands) jess.mcewen@socialworkengland.org.uk Andrew Fellows CPD Quality Assurance Manager andrew.fellows@socialworkengland.org.uk

Social Work England is a specialist body taking a new approach to regulating social workers in their vital roles. We believe in the power of collaboration and share a common goal with those we regulate – to protect the public, enable positive change and ultimately improve people’s lives

Who we are

Social Work in England: the context

• 98,800 registered social workers in England
• 37,000 employed in children’s statutory services
• 59,000 in adult services - from NHS teams, to local authorities, in the prison

service, in hospitals, and charities

• Approximately 4,000 students qualify as social workers each year
• 6 entry routes into social work training and education – the majority

through 74 HEIs (Undergraduate or Masters)

• Retention is a key issue, average career is 8 years (Nurse - 16 years, Doctor -

25 years).

We…..

• Set professional standards for social workers in England, including continuous

professional development standards.

• Will hold the register for circa 98,000 social workers.
• Set initial education and training standards and approve qualifying courses.
• Evaluate social workers’ continuing professional development.
• Approve post qualifying courses for persons who are, or wish to become, approved to

act as approved mental health professionals and courses for persons who are, or wish to become, approved to act as best interest assessors.

• Handle concerns raised to us about a social worker and assess whether a social worker’s

practice has fallen short of the professional standards.

Regional Engagement Team

Engage, collaborate and coproduce with:

• Social workers
• People with lived experience
• Social work educators and trainers
• Social work students
• Partner organisations
• Social work employers

…to raise the standards of social work, and raise the profile of the profession …by supporting stakeholders to embed our professional standards and standards of education and training and to identify emerging trends, themes and issues and gather information and intelligence to inform our approach to regulation

Three year journey

• Specialist approach, designed with the profession that supports creative,

diverse and modern ways of learning, reflecting and recording.

• Break new ground by requiring all social workers to show they engage in

CPD activity.

• Assure the public that social workers are practising with up-to-date

knowledge and skills.

• Communicate with social workers so that they understand our approach

and requirements.

• Develop our knowledge around CPD by working with fellow regulators,

stakeholders and public bodies.

Starting point

Children & Social Work Act 2017 41(1) The regulator must determine and publish professional standards for social workers. Social Work Regulations 2018 11 (6) The regulator must make rules in relation to determining eligibility, including: (f) requiring registered social workers to meet the professional standards relating to continuing professional training and development, and setting out the circumstances in which a registered social worker who fails to comply with any such requirement may be removed from the register. Registration Rules

• 50. (1) A registered social worker applying to renew their registration must provide the following

information to the regulator: (a) evidence, in a form determined by the regulator, that they meet the professional standards relating to CPD.

Incorporate feedback Keep my practice up to date Contribute to an

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creative learning culture Critically reflect

• n, and identify

my learning needs Evidence what impact CPD has

• n the quality of

my practice. Demonstrate good subject knowledge Record my learning Reflect on my

• wn values

The CPD standard – maintain your CPD

Our expectations on social workers in year one

• Must demonstrate that you meet the CPD standard, so you can renew your

registration – we want you to keep an up-to-date record in ‘My Account’.

• Need to show how CPD has impacted on your practice.
• No specified amount or type of CPD – you decide how much/what to do, taking

into account personal circumstances and how you’re practising.

• Encourage regular recording.

Annual CPD process

Registration year starts in December Social worker carries out and records CPD during year By year-end, social worker makes sure they have met requirements At renewal, they confirm they meet CPD standards Compliance check made on whether CPD has been recorded 2.5% of those who have recorded CPD selected for validation Validation exercise carried out. Notify social worker of

• utcome

Recording CPD – My Account

• Online account for all social

workers.

• Should record CPD here.
• Template options.
• Can upload attachments.

Registration renewal and validation cycle

• At the close of registration, we’ll check all records to see whether any

CPD has been recorded.

• We’ll also randomly select 2.5% for CPD validation.
• We won’t ask those selected to provide additional information. Instead,

we’ll check whether the CPD recorded shows how the activity has impacted on practice.

• The outcomes are ‘accepted’ or ‘further assessment’.
• We may apply conditions or remove from register in some

circumstances.

Into year one…

• Guidance published – will be reviewed and updated.
• My account up and running, and being used.
• Communications with social workers during year.
• Developing our strategy – want to establish our process and start to

learn more about how social workers are learning.

• We’ll talk to social workers and others about our strategy.
• Continue to develop the online account.
• We’ll do our first registration renewal and CPD validation process in the

autumn.

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Next steps…

Research

We are committed to developing a deeper understanding of social work by gathering data and intelligence about the profession and people’s experiences. This will help inform our work, keep it relevant and make sure it’s grounded in the values that underpin social work.

• 1. The Guardian Social Lives Survey - https://ipsos.uk/sociallives. Survey

closed on 31 January 2020

• 2. Social Work England survey of social workers (via YouGov)
• 3. Social Work England public perception survey (via CRD)

Questions

Creating opportunities for PSWs to learn and develop in their role

World café discussion

Election of Chair / Vice-Chair of the national PSW network

Beverley Latania, Sharon Smith & Jenefer Rees National Co-Chairs

Election Process

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• An email will be sent out to all PSWs in March inviting

them to apply for the role of chair or co-chair.

• A template will be provided for any PSW wishing to

apply, don’t forget to tell your boss!

• 2 weeks after the closing date the votes will be

counted and new chairs will be announced.

• Handover the new chair/vice chair will be July at the

joint annual conference.

Personal benefits and challenges

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Benefits; ✓Networking opportunities ✓Increased information and influence ✓Exposure to media, politics, policy making ✓Builds confidence, knowledge, skills and experience ✓Career and Professional Development ✓Rewarding, fulfilling and interesting Challenges; ▪Time ▪Travel ▪Outside comfort zone at times

Organisational Benefits and Challenges

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Benefits; ✓Raise the profile of the local authority ✓Gain extra knowledge, experience to develop PSW role and ASC ✓To be able to “nick” best evidence/practice ✓To be the 1st to be know and share Challenges; ▪Takes time away from day job ▪Demands and deadlines ▪Expenditure

Timeline

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Date What will happen? 06 April 2020

An email informing PSWs of the arrangements for the forth coming election will be circulated along with a template for self submission

Final deadline:

22 April 2020

Interested PSWs to have submitted an expression of interest and have gained confirmation of support from their employer (template supplied)

27 April 2020

An email containing a list of candidates circulated to PSW networks

Two week voting window open for PSWs 27 April – 08 May 2020

Week beginning:

11 May 2020

Votes will be totalled and successful applicants will be notified

05 July 2020

The PSW Adults and Children & Families Joint annual conference – New Chair(s) and Vice-Chair take over their positions

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Any other business, call to action and closing

Beverley Latania, Sharon Smith & Jenefer Rees National Co-Chairs

Twitter pages

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