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Management knowledge and practice hub

Author: Community Care Inform

Updated Date: 17 January 2020

Publication Date: 26 September 2016

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Learning points

Tips for new managers and supervisors, as well as those who are experienced but want to freshen up their practice, such as making discussion of emotion – both the practitioner’s and children and families’ – central to the supervision process.
Understand your key responsibilities as a manager, including managing people, finance and resources, and projects.
How to make the transition from practice to management, including how to take a more holistic view of your team’s workload, delegate, and exercise authority.

Supervision and supporting staff

Supervision: knowledge and practice hub

Tips to set up or improve group supervision

Developing emotional resilience and wellbeing in practitioners

Quiz: assess your own emotional resilience

Burnout, secondary trauma, compassion fatigue: a guide to support managers and practitioners

A manager’s guide to stress

Moving from practice to management

Making the transition from practitioner to manager

Tips for new supervisors

Supporting staff with core skills

Analysis and decision making

Multimedia learning

Learn as a group CPD activity on analysis and decision-making

Developing better care plans using SMART and POWER

Time management

Case recording and record keeping

Writing court reports

Management issues

Dealing with conflict with colleagues, partners and in the organisation

Tips for giving feedback

How to tackle challenges in supervision

Leadership

Ten top tips for effective leadership

Case study: using a leadership approach to improve team performance and develop staff

Training and group learning

Directory of group learning resources

Managing different groups

Practice education knowledge and practice hub

Managing newly qualified workers in the ASYE

Managing support workers

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Add item to CPD log

Title *
Management knowledge and practice hub

Date *
24-11-2020 (dd-mm-yyyy)

Learning or development activity, resource or URL
https://www.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/management-knowledge-and-practice-hub/

Learning

Use the boxes below to record what you have learned from this activity. The form below replicates that used by Social Work England on your online account, so that when you have to renew your registration you can include this as evidence of your continuing professional development. Everything you write will be stored in your Inform account from which you can export all the information as a Word file and upload to an unstructured form on the Social Work England website or print it off for other uses – for example, in supervision.

1. What was your job role? Briefly provide the context of your role when you did the CPD?

2. What did you do? Provide more information to explain the title of the CPD, for example, what you did and/or what happened.

3. Critical reflection - explain the impact that the CPD had on the quality of your practice.

4. Social Work England have eight CPD standards (4.1-4.8). Which of these do you believe your learning demonstrates? Note down and reflect on as many as apply. The eight standards are:

4.1 Incorporate feedback from a range of sources, including from people with lived experience of my social work practice.
4.2 Use supervision and feedback to critically reflect on, and identify my learning needs, including how I use research and evidence to inform my practice.
4.3 Keep my practice up to date and record how I use research, theories and frameworks to inform my practice and my professional judgement.
4.4 Demonstrate good subject knowledge on key aspects of social work practice and develop knowledge of current issues in society and social policies impacting on social work.
4.5 Contribute to an open and creative learning culture in the workplace to discuss, reflect on and share best practice.
4.6 Reflect on my learning activities and evidence what impact continuing professional development has on the quality of my practice.
4.7 Record my learning and reflection on a regular basis and in accordance with Social Work England's guidance on continuing professional development.
4.8 Reflect on my own values and challenge the impact they have on my practice.

For more information, see Social Work England’s guidance on CPD.

Add item to PRTL log

Title * Management knowledge and practice hub

Date * 24-11-2020 (dd-mm-yyyy)

URL https://www.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/management-knowledge-and-practice-hub/

Learning Use the boxes below to record what you have learned from this activity. Everything you write will be stored in your Inform account and you can export all the information as a Word file or print it off. When you have to renew your social work registration with Social Care Wales, you can include this as evidence of post-registration training and learning.

1. What have you learned from this activity?

2. How has it contributed to your practice?

3. How much time have you spent on this activity?

4. Next steps (any additional learning you need in this area)?

For more details, visit Social Care Wales

Citation

Full Harvard reference for this document:

() Management knowledge and practice hub. Knowledge Hubs.
Community Care Inform
[online]
https://www.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/management-knowledge-and-practice-hub/
[accessed: 24 November 2020]

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