Person Centred Practices
In 2019 4 staff had the opportunity to become accredited trainers in Person Centred Practices.
This has enhanced training opportunities for social work and social care staff in the Trust.
The Learning and Improvement Team supported the implementation of the regional pilot in the
reform of domiciliary care through provision of training in person centred thinking and support
planning to trust staff and staff from our partner agencies. This incorporated support forums to
embed person centred thinking in practice. A 'Training for Trainers' Course' supported our
domiciliary care managers to work with their staff teams in developing person centred thinking
skills.
Social Work Advocacy Team (SWAT)
Established in 2017, the Social Work Advocacy Team,
comprising of social workers across all programmes of care,
continues to ensure that the voice of social work practitioners
can be heard and shared directly with the social work
executive, chaired by the Director of Children's Services and
Social Work.
The team are committed to ensuring that practitioner
perspectives influence decision making across social
work in the Trust and have been making plans for raising
the SWAT profile with their peers.
Members of the Social Work Advocacy Team were
delighted to support the Annual Social Care Council
Awards in November 2019 and the present appeal for
children in need of additional support at Christmas.
Implementing Quality Improvement
The regional Quality Improvement in Social Work, Nursing and Midwifery Programme continues
to be co-ordinated and delivered by Trust staff. The overall aim of this programme is to develop
and strengthen social work practitioners and nursing staff to become leaders by utilising quality
improvement techniques and contributing to the regional development of quality improvement.
During this reporting period the fourth cohort of social workers completed the programme in October
2019. A total of 18 social workers alongside 18 nurses from across the 5 HSC Trusts and partner
agencies participated in the programme.
Trust quality improvement staff supported two successful projects undertaken by Trust social
workers. Both of these projects had positive outcomes for staff and service users.
Improve workers' confidence in completing one-to-one work
with service users by 30% through the use of a 6 week Working
Together Series workbook by October 2019.
Improve strengths based information gathered at
referral by Lisburn Gateway from 0% to 80% by
October 2019. "
"
It was a different approach from
my previous experience with social
services and it made us feel that we
had some control in the decision
making process.
(Family involved with Gateway)
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