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  • 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

  • Is Care Management Social Work?

    How much of social work exists in the Care Management model? It’s a question I’ve been toying with for a fair amount of time - especially as most of my work, post-qualification anyway, has been situated very much within the care management model. Although now, I have a slightly different...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-08-2008

  • Help to care

    I first saw on the news over the weekend about the report produced by the Institute for Public Policy Research related to  Personalised Budgets for Carers and it baffled me a little bit. Don’t get me wrong, I completely think that carers need, deserve and are entitled to a lot more support...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-04-2008

  • A decent place to live

    I seem to have had something of a ‘home’ themed week in one way or the other, so thought I’d round it off with a few thoughts about more general housing. In one of the previous teams I worked in, we had a basic line that a lot of the situations and difficulties that were challenging...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-17-2008
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