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Experts by Experience Panel for Professional Social Work Magazine
Professional Social Work (PSW) magazine, the publication of the British Association of Social Workers, is looking for people with lived experience to join a new panel feeding into the work of the editorial board.
The editorial board meets three times a year to provide feedback and ideas to the editor of PSW.
The Expert by Experience Panel will meet for an hour one week before the editorial board meeting to discuss their ideas and comments from previous editions of the magazine.
One panel member will also attend the two-hour board meeting to present feedback from the panel to board members.
The panel will consist of around four members. Members of the panel will be paid at a rate of £20 an hour.
Panel members should have one or more of the following to apply for the role:
- Experience of social services
- Lived experience of physical or mental disability
- Experience as a carer
- Lived experience of discrimination, oppression and/or deprivation/poverty
To apply for this role, please send in a statement outlining your relevant experience and why you would like to join the panel by 31 October to editor@basw.co.uk
If you have further questions or would like to discuss the role please email editor@basw.co.uk
The BASW employee mission
To champion social work and its values, supporting our members, and social workers UK-wide to thrive.
- BASW expects that all employees are treated with respect and courtesy.
- BASW acknowledges people’s differences as strengths.
- BASW is committed to maintaining a supportive and welcoming environment in which employees and members can work together to ensure the effective and professional representation of social work and deliver excellent service to, and for, members.
- BASW is committed to the highest standards of integrity with regard to our consistency in our actions, values, methods and principles.
Why work for us?
BASW work is interesting – working to champion social work and its values, supporting our members, and social workers UK-wide to thrive.
- BASW offers a competitive salary for employees as well as a generous pension scheme.
- BASW offers home / hybrid working as well as traditional office base (dependent on role) and is open to flexible working patterns.
- BASW is committed to inclusion and equality.
- BASW contributes to the BHSF health scheme for its employees.
- BASW employees can expect a generous holiday allowance as well as additional days/statutory bank holidays.
- BASW encourages all employees to contribute as fully as possible to BASW’s successful operation and share their individual ideas and experience and thereby create an efficient, satisfying and enjoyable place to work.
