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Core skills knowledge and practice hub

Author: Community Care Inform

Updated Date: 13 April 2022

Publication Date: 14 May 2020

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Introduction

This page brings together resources from across Community Care Inform that support social workers with the core skills required for practice, regardless of what type of case you’re working on or team you are part of. The guides and learning tools are designed to help both those new to the profession, and experienced practitioners seeking fresh ideas and tips to stay up-to-date and develop their skills. Topics covered include:

producing chronologies, records and care plans in a collaborative, co-productive way with children, families and carers;
working with children of different ages and with people who have different needs and backgrounds;
supporting your ongoing professional development and maintaining and developing resilience and wellbeing.

If you can’t find what you’re looking for here or using the search box above, please let us know.

Key tasks and processes

social worker with dad and child

Child and family assessment: completed example

Analysis and decision-making

Writing chronologies

Producing effective care plans

Case records and record keeping

Multimedia learning

Webinar: Rebekah Pierre – a care experienced perspective on language and record keeping

Confident direct work

Multimedia learning

Videos: relationship-based conversations in practice scenarios

Multi-agency working: leading the professional network and chairing meetings

Working Together guidance: how it affects your role

Parenting assessments

Care planning for looked-after children

Supporting children and young people facing death or bereavement

Learn as a group

Analysis and decision-making: group activity

Improve your case recording: group activity

More effective care plans: group activity

Communication, cultural and social contexts

Child development practice support tool

Children with speech, language and communication needs

Working with autistic children and young people

Safeguarding disabled children

Multimedia learning

Learn on the go podcast: parents with learning disabilities

‘Disguised compliance’: a relationship-based approach

Unconscious bias in social care

Multimedia learning

Learn on the go podcast: social work with transgender people

Cultural competence: lessons from research

Models and approaches

Multimedia learning

Podcast: restorative practice

Multimedia learning

Learn on the go podcast: Family finding, family seeing

Systemic practice

Signs of Safety: quick guide

Applying trauma-informed practice in direct work

Strengths-based practice with families

Professional development, identity and ethics

Critical reflection: how to develop it in your practice

Thinking critically about using research in practice

Multimedia learning

Learn on the go podcast: social media

Managing professional boundaries in social work

Wellbeing

Managing fear in social work

Time management: how to feel more in control of your workload

Developing emotional resilience and wellbeing in practitioners

Quiz: assess your own emotional resilience

Secondary trauma and compassion fatigue: a guide to support managers and practitioners

Add item to CPD Log (SWE)

Title *
Core skills knowledge and practice hub

Date *
22-12-2024 (dd-mm-yyyy)

Learning or development activity, resource or URL
https://www.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/core-skills-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 in your online account, so that when you need to renew your registration each year, you can easily transfer examples of CPD. Everything you write will be stored in your My CPD log on CC Inform. You can return to each piece of CPD and edit or add to it at any time - for example, if you reflect on it with a peer. You can export all the information as a Word file and copy it into Social Work England's form for the pieces you choose to submit during renewal, and print it off for other uses - for example, in supervision or peer reflection.

1. Describe what you have learnt from doing this CPD activity. (Social Work England recommend that you write 250-500 words, and they say that you may want to refer to the CPD standard 4.1-4.8 - see below.)

Word count: 0

2. Reflect on and describe the positive impact the CPD has had (or will have) on your practice and the people you work with.

This could be people with lived experience of social work, colleagues, or students. If you are not currently working, or not in direct practice, you could think about how your CPD activity might benefit people you come into contact with or the profession as a whole. (Social Work England recommend you write about 250 to 500 words).

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3. Describe what you have learnt from discussing this CPD activity with a peer

This is an optional question. By answering it for at least one of your pieces of CPD, you will meet Social Work England's requirements to record one piece of CPD with a peer reflection during the registration year. You are expected to write at least 250 words.

Social Work England say: "Peer reflection means that you have discussed the content of your CPD activity with a peer, your manager or another professional.

This discussion can be informal or formal, and can take place in one to one or group settings. The role of the peer is not to approve your learning but to support and help you to think about how you can improve your practice. When discussing your CPD with a peer, you should talk about what you have learnt from doing the CPD and the positive impact the CPD activity has had (or will have) on your role, practice and the people you work with".

Read more guidance from the regulator about peer reflection here

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4. Which parts of the CPD standard have you met by doing this activity? By going through the recording process, you will automatically meet standards 4.6 and 4.7. You can use the box below to note the other standards you have met with this piece.

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 CPD Log (SCW)

Title * Core skills knowledge and practice hub

Date * 22-12-2024 (dd-mm-yyyy)

URL https://www.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/core-skills-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 continuing professional development.

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:

() Core skills knowledge and practice hub. Knowledge Hubs.
Community Care Inform
[online]
https://www.ccinform.co.uk/knowledge-hubs/core-skills-knowledge-and-practice-hub/
[accessed: 22 December 2024]

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