This 3-hour session is designed for Practice Assessors (PA’s) for Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSW’s) undertaking their initial post-qualifying year in practice. The session outlines the basic requirements of the post qualifying programme for both the PA and the NQSW and explores how this can be achieved via managing the expectations of both the NQSW & the assessor, appropriate workload management and effective reflective supervision.
This course explores how to ensure the NQSW gets sufficient learning opportunities throughout the year to be able to manage a full & varied caseload at the 12 month point without being overloaded.
The course also looks at the support NQSW’s need to link policies, procedures & theory to their cases, to ensure they develop as holistic, safe and effective practitioners whose are grounded in best practice and underpinned by law. Finally the session will explore how supervision underpins the assessment process against the KSS and PCF.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand what the requirements are for the NQSW and the Assessor – including roles and responsibilities and links to the KSS & PCF assessment
- Understand the supervision & caseload requirements for NQSW’s including the 90% guidance and progressing the nature and amount of work allocated over the course of the year.
- Understand the supervision requirements for NQSW’s including exploring well-being, professional development & case reflection to improve practice underpinned by law & best practice.
Learning Methods:
A combination of learning methods will be used throughout the session, including lecture, workshop and group work. Interactive and experiential methods, group and pair work, and interactive activities in the form of quizzes, polls, case studies, and reflection dilemmas will be used, to inform participant learning and support application to practice.
Resources Required:
This course will be delivered by MS Teams, please ensure your IT equipment is updated and is running audio/visual and the latest version of Teams – please use the joining instructions provided.
Programme Outline:
9 am - Please log on to MS Teams and join the meeting in the general channel
9. 30 - Introductions, ground rules & Explanation of online methods
9.45 What are the requirements for NQSW’s?
- Supervision and Support
- Learning Opportunities & Workload Management
- Portfolio Requirements
10.40 COFFEE / SCREEN BREAK
11.00 What constitutes effective NQSW Supervision?
- Professional Development (the non-client bit)
- Effective Practice (the client bit)
- Making the links – law, theory, policy, KSS & PCF (all the other bits).
12.15 Feedback & Evaluation
12.30 CLOSE
| BASW member Practice Assessor / Supervisor | £ 34.80 (includes VAT of £ 5.80) |
| Non member Practice Assessor / Supervisor | £ 70.80 (includes VAT of £ 11.80) |