Knowledge & Practice Hub
Monmouthshire Adults Service – Community Care Inform Page
Introduction
Welcome to the Monmouthshire Health and Social care personalised area! Here you will find a range of resources for your role within adult services. Whether you are a Care and Support worker, Student, Therapist or Social Worker there is something for everyone! The information is split in to handy sections to make it easier to find what you are looking for. Please scroll down to view all the sections that have been created.
New Starters
Quick guides to deprivation of liberty in different scenarios:
Click here to find well-being resources
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- Managing fear in social work
- Self-care and Covid-19: podcast
- Time management
- Secondary trauma and compassion fatigue: a guide to support managers and practitioners
- Developing emotional resilience and wellbeing in practitioners
- Quiz: test your own emotional resilience
- Webinar: emotional resilience and how to develop it
- Stress management: a guide for managers
Click here to find legislation one page overviews
- 1.2 1.4 Equality Act protected characteristics
- 1.2 Advocacy handout
- 1.2 Human Rights Act 1998 – An overview
- 1.3 Person centred approaches
- 1.3 Treating people with dignity and respect
- 1.4 What is discrimination, inclusion, diversity and equality
- 1.5 Positive risk taking
- 1.6 Professional boundaries – a resource for managers
- 1.6 Relationship Centred Working Activity 17 handout
- 1.6 Unacceptable practice examples
- 1.7 Effective communication
- 1.8 The active offer
- 1.8 Welsh language legislation and strategies
- 1.9 Use in class instead of Positive Approaches
- 1.10 Activity 30 – the importance of attitude
- 1.11 Reflection
Senior practitioner and Manager Resources
Direct Care
Please use the below sections to find resources to support your learning during and beyond your induction week.
Adult Safeguarding
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- Safeguarding knowledge and practice hub
- Adult safeguarding and the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act
- Making safeguarding personal in practice
- Search Forced marriage of adults with learning disabilities Learn on the go podcast: forced marriage of adults with learning disabilities
- Working with adults who self-neglect
- Webinar: working with adults who hoard
- Protecting adults from scams
- Quick guide to difficult conversations
VAWDASV
- Domestic abuse knowledge and practice hub
- Domestic abuse: quick guide
- Technology as a weapon of domestic abuse: quick guide
- Domestic abuse: when and how to involve the police
- Working with domestic abuse, substance use and mental ill health
- A trauma-informed approach to domestic abuse: quick guide
- Domestic abuse between older couples: quick guide
- Domestic abuse and disability: quick guide
- Domestic abuse and learning disabilities: quick guide
- Domestic abuse and mental health problems: quick guide
- Domestic abuse in LGBTQ relationships
Dementia Awareness
- Dementia knowledge and practice hub
- Dementia diagnosis: quick guide
- Young onset dementia: quick guide
- Dementia and black, Asian, and minority ethnic communities: quick guide
- Fluctuating capacity and the law: quick guide
- Safeguarding adults with dementia
- Dementia and mental health comorbidities in older people
- Adults with learning disabilities and dementia
- Learn on the go podcast: adult attachment and dementia
Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSWs)
Please use the below sections to find resources relating to the workshop Programme for NQSW in their First Year in Practice. You can find more information and book onto the workshops here. Please discuss with your line manager before booking. Please also see group supervision and well-being sections which can be found in the “new starter” and “supervision” sections of the page.
Adult Safeguarding
Substance misuse
Decision making and analysis
Outcome focused and strengths-based practice
- Conducting effective assessments
- Strengths-based questions: quick guide
- A strengths-based approach to difficult conversations: quick guide
- Local area co-ordination: quick guide
- Three conversations: quick guide
- Signs of Safety: quick guide
- Solution-focused practice: quick guide
- Learn on the go podcast: strengths-based practice in action
- Learn on the go: strengths-based practice – podcast
Applying the MCA to practice
- Mental capacity, deprivation of liberty and best interests knowledge and practice hub
- Quick guide to assessing capacity
- Quick guide to making best interests decisions
- Quick guide to the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards framework
- Quick guides to deprivation of liberty in different scenarios:
Training
Supervision
Case Law
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