Teachers Names : Miss WilliamKofoworade
Unit: Unit 6 personal and Professional development Criteria : P7
SOCIAL WORKER
What is a Social worker?
Social workers work with people to support them through difficult times and ensure that vulnerable people, including children and adults are safeguarded from harm. Social workers form relationships with people and assist them to live more successfully within their local communities by helping them find solutions to their problems.
Social work involves engaging not only with clients themselves but their families and friends as well as working closely with other organizations including the police, local authority departments, schools and the probation service .
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Social Work was practising social inclusion before it has been invented (Community Care
(Community Care July 2006)
Social work propagated the concept and practice of service user involvement. From “doing to” people, to “doing for” people, to “doing with” people, to being alongside people as an ally, advocate and assistant (Community Care March 2010). Social work has an understanding of how systems work and the cultural and other barriers that need to be overcome to promote multi disciplinary work or integration (IDEA)
“Social work brings something distinctive to mental health. Articulating it is more difficult. It is a constellation of values, commitment to social justice and partnership with users and carers”.
(Community Care July 2006)
Working with users and carers, social workers promote a unique holistic recovery orientated values based social care / social inclusion model that is able to challenge the dominant task orientated medical model and this is reflected in the competences that are
required. (CSIP 2006)
The SCIE Research briefing 26: Mental health and social work provides a wealth of discussion and evidence on current social work practice in relation to mental health. The following is a brief …show more content…
We’re here to promote the best possible social work services for all people who may need them, while also securing the well being of social workers. BASW has established an arms length trade union, the Social Workers
Union (SWU) which together with our Advice & Representation Service offers a range of services to improve the protection of our members in the workplace. what do they do?
•They approve Mental Health Professional (AMHP)
•They supervise community treatment the provision for obtaining a warrant “to search for and remove patients”
•They follow the “Bourne wood” provisions which will amend the 2005 Mental Capacity Act.
Code of Conduct:
•Protect the rights and promote the interests of service users and carers.
•Strive to establish and maintain the trust and confidence of service users and carers
•Promote the independence of service users while protecting them as far as possible from danger or harm.
•Respect the rights of service users whilst seeking to ensure that their behaviour does not harm themselves or other people.
•Uphold public trust and confidence in social care service
•Be accountable for the quality of their work and responsibility for maintaining