Strengthening Social Work Leadership at All Levels – Leading Practice

Strengthening Social Work Leadership at All Levels is an online leadership programme for social workers at all levels. The programme has been developed in collaboration between:

• South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust – Social Work and Social Care Learning and Improvement Team
• Department of Health Northern Ireland
• Social Care Institute for Excellence

The aim of the programme is to increase knowledge of leadership styles, strengthening leadership skills and capacity in demonstrating leadership within the social work profession and across organisational and professional boundaries. The sections of the programme can be completed in participants order of choice.

• Leading Practice – Welcome
• Leading Practice – Reflective Practice and Supervision
• Leading Practice – Governance
• Leading Practice – Change Management
• Leading Practice – Innovation and Improvement
• Leading Practice – Measurement and Evaluation

Scroll down to access the above online modules.

Please note: These modules were developed for HSCLearn which normally allows the learning to be tracked to allow social workers outside of the statutory sector access. Unfortunately, the tracking function (LRS) is not available from the NISCC Learning Zone platform but you can still access the content and avail of the learning. When the resource is launched please ignore the “LRS is not available” message and click Ok to access the learning content. 

Conclusion:

Now you have completed all domains of the Leading Practice module you will have greater awareness of how reflective practice and supervision, governance, change management, innovation and improvement and measurement and evaluation apply to your role as a leader in practice. Please remember to claim your PIP credits through the Social Care Council website at the link below:

Social Care Council website

The HSC Collective Leadership Strategy provides a framework to achieve a culture which values leaders, regardless of hierarchy or experience, location or discipline, where staff strive for continuous improvement, are enabled to be innovative and take some risks along the way (HSC, 2017).

The Strategy can be accessed at the link below:

HSC Collective Leadership Strategy

If you are interested in further Social Work leadership development opportunities please speak to the representative with responsibility for Social Work leadership development within your organisation.

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