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Ask the experts: ‘Why don’t I get invited for interviews?’

The Social Work Community Podcast has launched a new mini-series, where a panel of experts answer your social work careers questions

By on November 19, 2024 in Workforce

Welcome to The Social Work Community Podcast’s new mini-series, ‘Ask the experts’, where we put your careers questions to three social work experts.

In this episode, Dame Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Claire Barcham and Kayleigh Rose Evans respond to a practitioner asking for advice on how to secure an interview for an assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) role.

This episode is hosted by Ruth Hardy-Mullings, head of content at Community Care.

If you have a question you’d like our experts to answer or if you felt the advice has helped you secure your next social work role, send us an email at careersadvice@markallengroup.com.

You can follow all the ‘Ask the experts’ questions and responses on The Social Work Community.

Read past questions from social workers and our experts’ responses here.

Here is a clip from the podcast where one of our experts, Claire Barcham, gives her advice:


Listen to whole episode on The Social Work Community.

About our experts

  • Dame Lorna Boreland-Kelly has many years’ experience as a practitioner, manager and  workforce development lead and has set up several social work academies around the country.
  • Claire Barcham is a specialist mental health social worker and former emergency duty team manager who currently delivers social work training and works in a policy role for the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.
  • Kayleigh Rose Evans is an adult social worker, best interests assessor and practice educator who has her own YouTube channel on which she provides social work careers advice.

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