I enjoy having students around. It helps keep me fresh and enthusiastic and to see my job through the eyes of someone coming into it rather than through the occasionally blurred eyes of someone who has been working for a while. I had a student shadowing Read More...
Posted to
Fighting Monsters
on 26 Aug 2011
Filed under: social care, social work, older people, work, old age, elderly, social worker, personal, Student, shadowing a social worker, getting old, shadowing
Last week, I had the pleasure of having a second year social work student shadow me as I worked. She was a student in a voluntary agency that I had come across because she had been doing some work with … Continue reading → Read More...
Posted to
Fighting Monsters
on 22 Mar 2011
Filed under: social care, social work, work, mental health, mental health act assessment, approved mental health professional, personal, AMHP, Student, mental health assessment, shadowing a social worker, student placement
I’ve mentioned this before, but I have worked in a couple of different teams within the same borough. Through fair means or foul, yesterday, I ended up in the office where I used to work before I moved to my … Continue reading → Read More...
Posted to
Fighting Monsters
on 9 Feb 2011
Filed under: social work, work, local authority, nhs, local government, redundancy, personal, Student, Hot desking, smart working
This is another post from a friend of mine who is in the first year of her studies as a social work student. We’ve followed her through pre-course shadowing and initial impressions. She’s now just started her first placement and … Continue Read More...
Posted to
Fighting Monsters
on 17 Jan 2011
Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, work, politics, health, Education, social work placement, placement, personal, British Association of Social Workers, student social worker, Student, british university