The Social Work Community Podcast

By: Community Care
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  • This is a new podcast by Community Care!

    The Social Work Community podcast is where social workers come to discuss the key issues affecting their profession. Whether you are a student or an experienced social worker - whether you are frontline or management, this podcast is for you. You will hear direct from social workers in your community about their successes and their challenges.
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  • From Community Care Live: How to co-create inclusive environments in adult social care

    From Community Care Live: How to co-create inclusive environments in adult social care
    Feb 4 2025
    We are back with another live episode – this time from adult social care at Wiltshire Council. The session took place at Community Care Live 2024.

    This is a really special episode where you will hear direct from an adult who not only works within Wiltshire through Wiltshire Centre for Independent Living but also uses services that Wiltshire Council provide. This session is about how service users and practitioners can work together in co-production to enable disabled people in Wiltshire to be able to live the life they want.

    In this session they talk about practical ways to enable this to happen, such as changing assessment forms, different approaches and language. They explain how working together has improved the lives of adults with disabilities. The unique innovator and pioneer approach is really working and the hope is that those who work in adult social care will benefit from listening to this session.

    You will also hear the Q&A session at the end. Don’t forget this podcast episode also counts as CPD.

    The workshop was hosted by Kaylie Chapman - principal social worker at Wiltshire Council's adult social care.
    Taking part were:
    Dan Wilkins - Head of transformation and quality assurance
    Leila Dickson - Assistant team manager in the advice and contact team
    Abbie-Jo Lawrence - Pioneer from Wiltshire Centre for Independent Living
    Rachael Hanwell - SEND resource facilitator at Wiltshire Centre for Independent Living

    This episode was presented and produced by Sharmeen Ziauddin - careers editor at Community Care.
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Workforce Insights: Helping older adults avoid unnecessary journeys to the hospital

    Workforce Insights: Helping older adults avoid unnecessary journeys to the hospital
    Jan 14 2025
    A collaboration between Hampshire County Council and South Central Ambulance Service is helping to improve the quality of care for adult social workers that would otherwise be transported to hospital.

    Hampshire County Council works to ensure that older adults avoid unnecessary journeys to the hospital thanks to a collaboration the council has formed with the South Central Ambulance Service or SCAS.

    Through the collaboration, the Social Work Line was created - a dedicated phone number that crew can use to contact a social worker directly.

    In this episode, you will hear from Matt Hutchinson, head of service for South Hampshire older adults’ team and senior social worker Maria Kneller, who talk about how this service is helping to give older adults greater independence to stay in their homes if a conveyance to hospital is not essential.

    You can listen to the podcast using the player above, or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Spreaker or wherever you normally listen to podcasts.

    Here is the transcript.

    Did you know podcasts can count towards your CPD?

    Learn more about Hampshire County Council and see what opportunities are available.

    Other articles and learning from Hampshire:
    Podcast: using new approaches to promote ‘old school’ social work for older adults

    Community social work: supporting vulnerable adults to reconnect with their communities

    Joint working and learning new things: social work in a transition team

    From busking to horse-riding: using strengths-based practice to transform lives
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    28 mins
  • Ask the Experts: I've lost motivation for my job in child exploitation, what can I do?

    Ask the Experts: I've lost motivation for my job in child exploitation, what can I do?
    Dec 23 2024
    Welcome to the second episode of the new mini-series, 'Ask the Experts'. In this series our panel of experts will be answering questions sent in by readers.

    Our experts are Dame Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Claire Barcham and Kayleigh Rose Evans, and the session is hosted by Ruth Hardy-Mullings, head of content at Community Care.

    The dilema in this epsidoe is two-fold. How to keep motivated working in a child exploitation role and how to navigate out of social work with teens to either fostering or even to the adult care sector.

    Listen to our experts tackle this.

    Read the transcript here.

    So if you have any burning social work related career questions do drop us an email on careersadvice@markallengroup.com.
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    19 mins

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