Duty desks, visits and getting lost: a day in the life of social workers

This past week has been Social Work Watch, a project between Community Care and Unison to understand a day in the life of social workers.

There is still time to complete the survey about how you spent Wednesday 21 September, but for now here is a round up of how social workers who shared their work on social media filled their time.

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Working with a group of newly qualified swers just starting their ASYE. Exploring professional identity #SocialWorkWatch

— Siobhan Maclean (@SiobhanMaclean) September 21, 2016

It is 12 o'clock we have 13 referrals for MHAAs including the ubiquitous sec 136🤔 #SocialWorkWatch

— AsifAMHP (@asifamhp) September 21, 2016

Supervision, meetings, preparing for the invasion of students in the next couple of weeks. #SocialWorkWatch

— Colin J Dinnie (@colinjdinnie) September 21, 2016

https://twitter.com/sophieayers1982/status/778566178352627712

Busy day on our duty desk for me today,high levels of safeguarding referrals,chasing updates,chasing reports but we did ok #SocialWorkWatch

— Warren Belcher (@ermate) September 21, 2016

This week I intend to fully complete HCPC form & get round to registering, luckily already have some CPD #socialworkwatch

— Natasha (@NatashaSmasha) September 21, 2016

https://twitter.com/MariaLGriffiths/status/778633901283639296

#SocialWorkWatch Phone, email, ammendments, contact problems, data, reimburse fares, Core Group, stats, filling, repeat #socialwork

— asye jokes (@asye2014) September 21, 2016

inspired by #SocialWorkWatch tweets. spent my day on outlines for supervision/ manager workshops, so good reminder of #socialwork reality

— Gerry Nosowska (@EffectivePrac) September 21, 2016

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Multi-agency meeting with a lady who is hoarding. Trying to establish what she wanted and how we can all help her get there #SocialWorkWatch

— Vicki T (@Tatts2007) September 21, 2016

Social workers who take the Social Work Watch Survey can be entered into a prize draw to win an iPad Mini. Results of the survey will be treated anonymously.