Promoting Continuous Professional Development in Social Work
Practitioners
140 Goal 5: Integrating the Care - Social Care
In 2019/2020 5 social workers completed the 'Stronger Together Leadership Programme'
delivered by the Leadership Centre.
The aim of Stronger Together is to maximize the contribution that experienced social work
leaders can make to high performing, successful organisations. Stronger Together builds on
existing leadership skills and challenges participants to become more agile, working across
system boundaries and dealing with complexity.
Professional Supervision
A pilot course entitled 'Practical Supervision Skills for Social Work Managers' was
designed and delivered to 18 children's services social work team leads and residential
managers in February 2020.
This course was developed to increase manager's confidence in helping practitioners reflect
on their practice. It was positively evaluated and will continue to be delivered
to social work managers.
Paul Rooney (Professional Advisor, NI
Social Care Council) emphasised the key
role that social care plays within service
delivery and the importance for leaders
within social care to encourage a collective
leadership culture across the workforce.
Leading Social Work
A number of staff within the organisation have been given the opportunity to undertake new
collective leadership programmes.
The Trust's first Collective Leadership programme for social care managers 'Developing
Your Collective Leadership Presence' ran between April 2019 and February 2020.
The programme is a collaboration between Organisation and Workforce Development
and the Social Services Learning and Improvement Team, bringing together 26 Regulated
Services Managers from across the Trust to develop the collective leadership culture of social
care services by promoting collective leadership principles, values and behaviours through
effective communication, collaboration and the sharing of knowledge, skills and experience.