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PSW — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:39:23 +0000

Not so in my authority- our team is committed to the role as a stand alone post with direct links to the DCS & DASS and independent supervision provided. The post is valued by front line staff and senior managers alike and as the current post holder I certainly believe that I am able to represent the voice of front line practitioners and can see some tangible results that have been as a direct result of listening to practitioners.

We need to showcase where the PSW role is working well and learn from these areas. Where the role is an ‘add on’ to an already busy post how can there ever be a chance of this being successful – especially if the existing post is a management post which any ‘independent’ PSW may well be challenging?!

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Billy — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:55:46 +0000

In reply to Mel. Here here. I've not seen benefits from PSW role in my current authority other than patronising managerial style emails being sent around mental capacity

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Mel — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:29:35 +0000

I haven’t seen a benefit in my Adult Social Care team. The PSW is a service manager currently working with consultants who have never been social workers to indirectly deregulate our services by increasing the unqualified workforce to save money. This is whilst spreading the service thinly over longer working hours 7 days a week irrespective of the fact that we won’t have any additional resources to offer in the community in terms of care at homes or placements, only ourselves.
We have ever decreasing qualified social work numbers, low morale and growing waiting lists. I fear someone will unnecessarily die before it will be realised that our services are unsustainable under austerity, but it won’t be the PSWs who get witch hunted for it but the frontline staff whose hands are tied.

Not a nice time to be a social worker in my field and I don’t envy the unsuspecting public who are kept in the dark about the crises we are already in. Many people still think we can (and want to) “put them in a home” willy nilly when we can’t even find timely placements for the people who themselves know they need that level of care.
I’m yet to hear our PSW address these issues so they certainly aren’t taking an active lead in voicing the concerns of the frontline staff.