Middlesbrough Adults draft
Welcome to the Community Care Inform page for Adult Social Care staff working in Middlesbrough.
This exciting resource is available for you to easily check the latest guidance, developments and discussions about issues that directly affect our work and those we support. You can access information that will assist you with recording your Continual Professional Development (CPD) with Social Work England, as well as information about Middlesbrough’s policies, procedures, and our Social Work Teams.
Content will change periodically to reflect current issues – so please check in regularly to see what topics are highlighted!
You may want to discuss these topics in Team Meetings for inclusion as Peer Support in your CPD record in order to maintain your registration with SW England?
Lynn Beevers (Principle Social Worker, Adults).
Current areas of practice that may be of particular interest are:
Trauma: This will help you consider the impact of trauma and how you can adapt your practice to support and interact with those who have experienced trauma in their lives.
Self-neglect: This will help you to understand issues relating to self-neglect and hoarding and to understand available resources and how safeguarding links with care management practice.
Carers: New guidance around how we work with Carers and the importance of completing Carers Assessments has been introduced. There is also a range of resources available – please see Practice Guidance for further information.
If there are any issues that you would like to include, or if you have any comments or feedback, please don’t hesitate to contact me to discuss. There are exciting times ahead, and there will be challenges too, but I have every confidence that we can continue to work together to support our clients and their Carers.
I look forward to continuing to work with you all.
Adult Social Care Middlesbrough
Induction
We know that when working for a new organisation, getting to grips with how things work and where to go for help is really important. You will have a Local Induction to your Team and Service Area as well as doing a 6-week online programme. You will be invited to attend one of our “Live” events which are hosted by the Chief Executive, Tony Parkinson which will help you understand ‘the big picture’ in relation to our strategic aims as well as finding out a little bit more about how the Council works.
Learning & Development
We have a Learning & Development culture within Middlesbrough, building on our shared values, practices and procedures to ensure we can best meet the needs of our vulnerable clients and their Carers. Working in Adult Social Care you will have access to learning and development opportunities, to ensure you have the skills and knowledge required to carry out your role effectively.
ASYE
We have a robust and well embedded “Assessed and Supported Year in Employment” (ASYE) programme in place, where you will be supported by our dedicated ASYE Lead alongside your line manager. You can expect a protected caseload and development time as well as a combination of group and individual reflective supervision. You will have access to a variety of learning opportunities to achieve your objectives throughout the year.
Supervision
Supervision exists to ensure that Middlesbrough Council provides high quality services and positive outcomes for service users, whilst ensuring that staff’s practice and conduct meets the requirements of national legislation, registering bodies and Middlesbrough Council.
We are committed to providing colleagues with good quality, effective supervision on a regular basis in accordance with their range of responsibilities, role and level of professional knowledge. Supervision recognises the strengths and development needs of the worker and provides the appropriate support to enable them to achieve continuous professional development.
Access & Safeguarding Teams
The Access and Safeguarding teams merged in November 2019 to provide a single point of contact for incoming referrals to adult social care in terms of requests for assessment and safeguarding concerns. The access element of the team provides short term care management support, undertaking assessments for those who are new to adult social care services or those previously closed to Social Care Teams. The current exceptions to this are: people with confirmed diagnosis of dementia; learning disability; individuals in secondary mental health services and requests for specialist sensory assessments. Once assessments are completed staff will work with an individual until their needs are understood, initial services are in place and a review is undertaken. The safeguarding element of the team triages incoming safeguarding concerns, undertakes section 42 enquiries and coordinates multi-agency meetings in order to develop a multi-agency protection plan. Making safeguarding personal is key to the enquiry and investigation process.