1. Skills ! the essential ingredient in

2. Working in Social Work is complex
Working in Social Work is complex. To work effectively you need to develop and enhance many skills!

3. First of all we need to know what they are
First of all we need to know what they are ! So -What are the skills that a social worker needs to have?

4. Some Skills Needed Managing Listening and talking Leading Observing
Negotiating
Supporting
Working with an interpreter
Information communication and technology including information literacy recording and report writing
Reflective writing in social work .
Observing
Understanding and expressing feelings
Analysing
Reflecting
Giving and receiving Feedback
Inter-professional Working
Interviewing

5. Watch the video clip!
List the skills used and Identify the ones that are essential?
List the ones do you need to improve on ?
You will be allocated skills from the open learn material. Discuss how these would be demonstrate in practice with services users- give examples!
What would efficiency in this skill look like and what would poor practice look like ?

6. What is your conclusions about Skills!
Employing Skills is a doing word
You need to know what is required and what they looks like in action
You need to know where your own abilities are in relation to what is required
You are need to become aware to develop them
It does not happen by itself!

7. You need to develop skills in Listening and communicating

8. What Does Effective Practice Look Like?
Awareness of self and non verbal communications
Ability to understand people- being in their shoes
Demonstrate empathy and being fully present
Observing and learning
Supporting others- conveying acceptance
Giving and receiving constructive feedback
Negotiating and advocating
Reflecting on self and actions and use of supervision
Developing the self

9. Engaging with others no mater what the situation!

10. Respecting people and understanding cultures

11. Social Work is about Relationships Your ability to create the working relationship is down to your skills!

12. You need to be able to be in the world of another by Employing Empathy !

13. Skills in promoting social justice and empowering

14. The Core to Everything
Your ability to make and sustain relationships with others
To employ the values
To integrate the knowledge
To understand your role
To understand yourself
To understand the organisation
To understand society

15. Managing- you and others!
Analysing looking critically at information and evaluating it
Learning, Reflecting and developing our knowledge, skills and use research
Accountability and Managing people, information and resources
Inter professional working
Working with Interpreters
Report writing and use of technology

16. Integration of knowledge, values and skills
You need to know
what you don't know
have insight into your self and your own abilities
in order to avoid
Defensive practice
Danger practice
Defeatist practice

17. Your required to develop your skills and improve them throughout your career!

18. Professional Development
You need to get on board with your professional development now!
Improving the skills and competencies needed to create the effective conditions for change in the service user – is a process.
A process within YOU- where you become aware of and evaluate what is required to improve- the self
It needs to become the norm – away of life to strive for continuous self improvement!

19. Role of the Social Worker requires Great Skill

20. As Registered Social Workers
We sign up to the notion of developing our skills, knowledge, expertise and confidence in the interests of good practice for service users!
This in itself means we are standing up for our profession by asserting the importance of acquiring and contributing to new knowledge and seeking out ways to develop theory and evidence-informed practice.
Thus take responsibility for yourself first and always know what you don’t know!

21. Reading
Schon, D (1991): The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. Ashgate. Basic Books
Thompson, N (2009): People skills (3rd Ed). Basingstoke, Palgrave
Coulshed, V. (1991).Social Work Practice; An Introduction 2nd edition Macmillan
Gould, N. and Taylor, I(1996) Reflective Practice in Social Work Arena
Kolb, D. A.(1984) Experiential Learning. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice Hall PTR