This online forum is for NQSWs, social workers looking for their first employed role in England or a change in role and those looking to return to the profession after a career break.
For NQSWs and Social Workers Seeking Employment Need support with your social work job applications or interviews?
Our 80:20 campaign advocates for social workers to spend the majority of their time working directly with children, families and adults rather than on administrative and process driven tasks.
The campaign is an opportunity to create effective change by putting relationships in practice at the heart of what we do. As part of ongoing work through BASW England’s 80:20 campaign, a suite of Top Tips resources has been created with BASW members, people with lived experience and key stakeholders from across the sector.
Section (s.)135 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA 1983) enables an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) to request for a magistrate to issue a warrant which authorises a constable to enter a premises, using force if necessary, for the purpose of either removing to or keeping a person at a place of safety. There are a number of reasons why such a warrant may be obtained and executed and why, on the whole, their use has been increasing over the years.
BASW Independents Local Networks provide an excellent opportunity to build professional links with other self-employed social workers in your area. These meetings are currently virtual and held on MS Teams.
Kate Cuthbertson (Coach Supervisor, BASW Professional Support Service) will be joining to discuss what the Social Work Professional Support Service can offer you, as an independent social worker.
This group meets on the 3rd Thursday of the month every quarter.
Are you a social worker or social work leader, currently working within an NHS Trust or other health organisation and looking for opportunities to connect with other social workers? If you would like to come together with peers working in a wide variety of settings outside of statutory local authority social care, this forum is for you. The forum will provide opportunities to explore the strengths and challenges this poses and identify ways of maintaining social work identity and promote parity of esteem for career progression and CPD.
This forum is for BASW members who work with adults in a range of contexts, either as individuals or as part of a family and for social workers at every stage in their career. This forum will enable you to explore approaches to practice using a range of theory, policy, law, practice models and approaches, including a human rights-based perspective to re-connect with social work values and ethics.
Part of BASW's Taught Skills Development Programme
Delivered by BASW’s accredited training partner DCC-i via MS Teams.
This one-day programme is designed as a peer learning experience and refresher, providing detailed case law/practice updates and a reflective space to support those working in-depth with MCA and DoLS processes, BIA colleagues in practice, authorisers, and mental health assessors to explore these current issues in practice.
Part of BASW’s Practice Educator & Practice Assessor CPD Programme Delivered by BASW’s accredited training partner DCC-i via MS Teams. Suitable for experienced Practice Educators – (PEPS / PE Assessors, PEPS / PE Mentors, PEPS / PE Coordinators, Practice Mentor Assessors) and experienced Practice Assessors (ASYE Assessors, NQSW Assessors, PAs of NQSWs, PAs of ASYEs, Supervisors of NQSWs, Supervisors of ASYEs).
This course will focus on English and Welsh legislation and case examples but the principles will be relevant to delegates nationwide.
SASW brings you Next Steps, part of our Skills and Knowledge programme supporting your CPL. Next Steps sessions combine theory, research and policy with practice tools and strategies to enhance and improve your practice. These sessions build on your existing knowledge and are ideal for experienced social workers looking to invigorate and strengthen their practice.
Skills & Knowledge : Next Steps – Adult Self Neglect