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Disabled & want to work? Think carefully!

Part of the coalition government’s passion for cutting expenditure has been to attack the disabled who rely on welfare benefits to exist. It has/ will be made more difficult to claim the range of disability benefits available and the message is...

Published 22 Jan 2011 12:17 PM by Social Worker-to-be

Filed under: disability, personal, politics, social issues
CRB now received!

I wrote in a previous post about the frustrations I was experiencing while waiting for completion of the CRB checks which are necessary before beginning any employment with children. I discovered on Monday evening through the tracking service that my...

Published 21 Jan 2011 2:03 PM by Social Worker-to-be

Filed under: children and families, personal, social work, student issues
CRB frustrations

I was offered my first social work post almost 2 months ago now and still haven’t started work, to my great frustration. There is only so much daytime TV a person can take and I suspect my brain may be slowly turning to mush. I long for the stimulation...

Published 12 Jan 2011 3:55 PM by Social Worker-to-be

Filed under: personal, politics, social work
First social work post!!!

Last week I had an interview for a social work post in a local authority fostering team, the same one in which I spent some of my first placement. I felt I did well on the written test- an assessment based upon a case study- but not the interview itself...

Published 27 Nov 2010 10:57 PM by Social Worker-to-be

Filed under: children and families, personal, social work, student issues
Now an NQSW

It has been so long since I last posted on this blog, but life has been incredibly busy since my last post. However, I am now no longer a ‘social worker-to-be’. I passed my Masters with merit and am now simply a ‘social worker’...

Published 13 Nov 2010 8:01 PM by Social Worker-to-be

Filed under: children and families, personal, politics, social issues, social work, student issues
Another New Year

For a few days now, I’ve been aware that it’s been some time since I posted anything, and I’ve been reflecting quite a bit on the past year and what the next may hold. 2009 saw me complete a full year of my social work training which...

Published 2 Jan 2010 1:16 PM by Social Worker-to-be

Filed under: mental health, personal, politics, social issues, social work, student issues
Final placement and other ramblings

Once again I’m in the position of impatiently waiting to hear about my next placement. I know which authority took my application papers and when. Now I just have to wait for them to contact me when they have found me a suitable practice teacher...

Published 30 Nov 2009 10:24 PM by Social Worker-to-be

Filed under: children and families, mental health, personal, social work, student issues
Changing views about ‘recovery’

Once again, I have had to rethink and challenge my attitudes and beliefs. This time about mental health, provoked by the literature review I was required to write. I eventually chose the concept of ‘recovery’, which proved fascinating- and...

Published 29 Oct 2009 11:41 AM by Social Worker-to-be

Filed under: mental health, personal, social work
A carer’s lot

A few weeks ago I went down to my mother’s for 10 days. She had recently had a mastectomy, and was having some problems with her recovery, and as my father was going abroad for business, I slipped back into my role of ‘young carer’....

Published 6 Sep 2009 7:05 PM by Social Worker-to-be

Filed under: mental health, personal
31 days down…69 to go…

I’m almost a third of the way through my placement. Thinking of it like that seems very scary! It’s flying by. Tonight I have finished my first portfolio assignment, an assessment/ intervention report which I’m not happy with but it...

Published 23 Jun 2009 10:14 PM by Social Worker-to-be

Filed under: personal, student issues
Occupational injury!

I was out visiting a young person at home this evening, when my ankle gave way under me while crossing the road. Luckily the cars stopped for me, as I picked myself up off the floor trying to maintain a resemblance of dignity (although no-one was actually...

Published 1 Jun 2009 8:00 PM by Social Worker-to-be

Filed under: children and families, personal, social work, student issues
Looking forward

The last few weeks I have been thinking a lot about what area I might like to practice in eventually. I have chosen the mental health pathway for my course, although technically we graduate with a generic degree preparing us for any area of social work...

Published 30 May 2009 4:04 PM by Social Worker-to-be

Filed under: children and families, mental health, personal, social work, student issues
People’s perceptions

I’ve been noticing recently how people’s attitudes have changed towards me since I began social work training. I have always been someone in whom people have confided: often all I do is listen, but that seems to be enough for most people....

Published 2 Apr 2009 11:04 PM by Social Worker-to-be

Filed under: personal, social work

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