Why is 8 weeks notice out of touch? Isn’t it more beneficial for children and families to have a proper transition between workers rather than just learning with a few days that they are having a change or worker?
]]>Should the question also be why some team managers end a worker’s contract or is the worker automatically assumed to be the problem/issue from the manager’s point of view? Are these questions ever asked? Agency workers work hard but are undervalued, where do they go for support? when some environments can be very unfriendly places to work.
One example. I worked somewhere for three weeks I never met the team once either in person or via teams, I never had access to teams, and if I needed support the attitude was “It was not their role”
Two times per week all teams were required to be in the office, if the team I was assigned to was in the office they never made themselves visible or were never present in the office and yes I attempted to locate the team several times but never found them before leaving.
]]>It is not the agency staff who are the issue. It is a far more wider issue, without agency staff local authorities would struggle even more than they are now.
]]>You do, I suggest you look at and understand exactly what AWR is after your qualifying 13 weeks in placement
]]>That’s the choice the locum makes. If you want to be paid more change jobs. Go work on the stock exchange. As for project SWs they get paid a fortune one recently told me they were getting 82,000 py for consultancy work – been qualified 5 years. Shameful when there are limited services to support the people we serve.
]]>Social workers have no appreciation at all for what we do day to day. This is yet another insult injury. Councils cannot function without locum social workers so trying to force their hands is very careless and stupid. Furthermore, whoever suggested that locums should give 8 weeks notice is clearly out of touch with reality and getting paid far too much
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