Professionalism Last placement has provided opportunities to demonstrate my flexibility and management skills by working independently and as a team player. Within this position, I have taken responsibility for organising my own diary, prioritising and managing my workload, whilst also assisting colleagues; hand-delivering urgent letters, transporting children to/from school in emergencies and accompanying on risky visits. This was achieved in the context of adapting to working within a new environment. During placement, I adhere to Hull City Council policies and procedures and government legislation. For example, I write my whereabouts on the board to keep myself safer when working alone, and explained to child A my duty to breach …show more content…
Throughout practice, I aimed to protect and promote the rights of service users, and involve them in decision-making process. For instance, to respect the privacy of the father of J, I sought consent before sharing personal and sensitive information with his partner. At the same time with this family, I combated the ethical dilemma of their right to a ‘private life’ versus the right of the children being protected. I found listening and providing parents with honest information allowed the parents to offload their feelings and make an informed choice about whether they wished to engage with me. This in turn, broke down the barrier of resistance and developed a respectful partnership where we started to work together to achieve positive change. Diversity Working alongside people from alternative backgrounds, I am broadening my understanding of diversity, including cultural, class and gender. Within this, I have seen how easily social workers can form stereotypical assumptions that fathers pose more of a risk than mothers, and from this enforce restrictions which potentially seem unfair. I have aimed for a non-judgemental and anti-discriminatory approach which has allowed me to form positive working relationships with a variety of different service users. One example of this is through effectively supervising contact sessions with parents experiencing long-term substance misuse problems or mental health
Individual’s rights also need to be promoted in order for holistic support to be provided by professionals. All adults in a health and social care environment such as a care home have rights to their confidentiality, respect, choice and to have their individuality taken into consideration. They also have the right not to be discriminated against, to receive equal and fair treatment and also to have access to the policies and procedures of the health and social care organisation. They should know when and how to make a complaint should they feel there care need are not being met. Children in care settings also have promotion of rights. These individuals should always have the right to be heard and it remain confidential, to have their wishes considered, be provided with stimulating activities and the right to be safe and secure from harm.
It has been debated that children and families have received poor service because of the failure of professionals in understanding each other’s roles or working together in a multi-disciplinary
More than ever, Child protection is a topical issue. That’s why many years ago the British government, aware of the fragility and vulnerability of children to adults, has implemented a number of laws relating to children and young people in the UK. These laws are made to define the inherent right of children, and also to define the implication of their rights for all those responsible of or using any childhood services; but more specifically what we will see through the legislation concerning the rights of children, is how they may impact the work of childcarers, how they can
Through this, practitioners can pass on information via their meeting agendas or promotion of their open door policy for raising concerns about practice or other, that anyone feels has the potential to contribute to or cause children's vulnerability. It helps everyone look at information and sharing it, storing it,
As professionals, we have a duty to ensure that children and young people are protected while they are in our care and that where we have other concerns outside school, these are investigated fully. School policies and procedures need to be such that parents and governors are aware of them and that staff are fully trained with regard to safeguarding. Schools will need to consider and include in their policies:
All aspects of my job role are regulated by policies and current legislation. The mandatory training that we attend has been designed to cover all aspects of legislation such as the Children's Act, which provides a Code of Practice to enable us provide the best possible care and support for children and young people. We also have inspections from OFSTED who ensure we are meeting, not only care standards, but also those relating to behaviour and
The responsibility of the practitioner is to work as part of a team with other professionals and staff members effectively to bring children and parents the best possible service i.e. working with social workers, speech and language therapists, and family support workers. Practitioners must also have a working partnership with parents, to work effectively with the child as the parents are the primary carers and they will know what the child is like at home and what the child’s interests are. For example they would have a policy called ”parents as partners”.
All individuals should have equal access to check-u, medical health treatment and also should fully have an understanding of their legal rights. Practitioners have to make sure that relevant legislation is put into practice. The children Act 1989, for example, states the local authorities must act in the ‘best interests’ of all children, and that each child has a fundamental to housing, health care and education.
This essay will identify a case I have been involved in and have continuously had to assess whilst on placement. It will refer to a child who will be identified as A. A is a young carer and has only recently returned home after being removed from his mothers care due to her having a substance abuse problem and mental health concerns. I will link the legal framework that was relevant to this case study and describe actions taken. Additionally these actions will demonstrate the application of social work methods and theories that were contributive elements in his intervention, offering explanations as to why these particular methods were used. Before closing, the essay will review any issues of discrimination with a reflection of the
How national and local guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding affect day to day work with children and young people
Explain a range of ethical and moral dilemmas which social workers and the team may encounter when dealing with this care – look at case study on the assignment brief.
The purpose of this assignment is to identify the theories, values and philosophies of care pertaining to own area of practice, describe how the personalisation agenda supports individual choice within service provision, demonstrate understanding of codes of practice and methods of service monitoring, describe the process of marginalisation/stigma and societal responses to de-valued individuals and groups including user involvement and advocacy and finally describe and discuss the principles and process of protecting vulnerable people. Confidentiality and anonymity will be preserved throughout the essay by following the Skills for Health and Skills for Care (2013) Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers. Philosophy means the study of
As a Social Worker, I have had the opportunity to work with children and families from diverse socioeconomic, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. My experience and training includes extensive work with prenatal, infant and early childhood education and development. Through this course I have been able to
From this, we are able to find out if they are being abused. They wouldn’t hesitate when talking about the abuse. Partnership with service users also means care professionals helping service users to recognise when a relationship is abusive. Care workers can help them to know more about how to protect themselves by knowing their rights and how to complain. Thus, potential abuse can be minimised by working in partnership with service users.
The workers’ interaction with the mother is informed by professional power relations and systematic surveillance and serves to police, discipline, and control vulnerable mothers, thus contributing to the increased criminalization of women. The child welfare system would benefit from taking an intersectional approach when attempting to protect children to ensure that they are not just creating an alternative binary that oppresses disadvantaged children and their families. As Baines (2008) so rightfully states social work practitioners “should develop ways to assess the options available for resistance to oppressive policies to tie professional intervention into larger strategies and relations of resistance in local and global arenas”