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  • Social Work - a Daily Mail interpretation

    I know I shouldn’t do it. I know it will just make me unnecessarily angry and raise my blood pressure. I know exactly what I’ll find but sometimes, just occasionally, my curiosity gets the better of me and I dip into the Daily Mail’s website. And to those lucky enough not to have come...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-04-2008

  • Caseloads

    Supervision for me is generally a fairly relaxed affair. I use the time to run through my current caseload - partly just to re-evaluate where I am and where I’m going and partly just to make sure my manager actually knows what I’m doing. We don’t just discuss caseloads of course, but...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-30-2008

  • How to Complain About Me (or to the Local Authority generally)

    A brief guide to how to complain from someone who has been on the other side of complaints. Not many times, I hasten to add, and none that have actually gone very far -  but I know what ticks the boxes as far as official complaints procedures are concerned. Firstly, local authorities actually quite like...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-28-2008

  • Care Management for Pets

    There is much research about the positive impact that domestic animals can have to general mental health and well-being. Something about the non-judgemental nature of interactions, I presume - although I’m sure that more extensive scientifc research can be located if necessary. Often working with...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-20-2008

  • Active Care? Another tale of Southern Cross

    I write a few months ago about the difficulties faced by Southern Cross Healthcare but a quick recap a) They are the largest private operator of residential and nursing care in the UK b) Big financial problems c) Some disparate concerns about quality of care and treatment of staff in homes that they...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-16-2008

  • Where the pin drops..

    I wrote a couple of months back about an ongoing reconfiguration of services in the area in which I’m working that basically involves turning four separate teams based on geography into two based in much larger ‘patches’. I have some learned cynicism about service re-configuring and...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-06-2008

  • Appraisal

    I had my annual appraisal last week. I wavered about whether to write about it or not. Not for any reasons of confidentiality - because honestly, I would happily have had anyone who stumbles across this site sit in with me and they wouldn’t have gained much in the way of private information (!...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-02-2008

  • Approval

    Yesterday, I received confirmation of the ‘approval’ part of my new role as an ‘approved social worker’ (ASW). After completing the designated additional specialist mental health training a couple of months back and having spent these remaining months, carrying out Mental Health...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-10-2008

  • *The Road Not Taken

    I was asked over the weekend by someone who is just about to finish her Social Work degree and  if I would recommend she goes  for statutory or voluntary Social  Work when she qualifies. I had no hesitation in recommending voluntary sector work in an unashamedly contradictory manner -...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-23-2008

  • Not managing stress at work

    I wasn’t intending to follow up the post I wrote on Saturday but then, yesterday, I read that Social Workers are buckling under the stress burden according to The Guardian, and the coincidence seemed to be too ripe to pass up. Anushka Astana writes ‘Research carried out by the Conservative...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-15-2008
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