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Welcome to our NEW electronic newsletter with all the latest news from SocialWork 2000 plus links to lots of news sections on our recently upgraded web site.
As a registered locum you will start to receive these newsletters each month with job vacancies, training opportunities, special events and the latest developments in the social work profession. If you would prefer us to send it to a different email address just let us know. You can also unsubscribe at any time using the link at the foot of this newsletter. |
| The Producers |
 A group of 25 Social Work 2000 locums were treated to a great evening of entertainment at the Milton Keynes Theatre. Some excellent pre-show catering was followed by Mel Brooks’ hilarious new musical, The Producers, starring Joe Pasquale as Leo Bloom and Russ Abbot as Roger DeBris.
Billed as a guaranteed evening of sheer, utter, unadulterated joy, it certainly lived up to expectations with even the performers unable to hold back their laughter.
"Just a big big THANK YOU for a fabulous night out last week in Milton Keynes to see The Producers. It was a great show and lovely to see fellow SW2000’ers!" said Vanessa Money-Kyrle who has been with us since the very beginning of SW2k.
"A big thank you for organising such a successful event. The Producers were brilliant and I enjoyed every minute of it." Heather Oddy
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| LSE Recruitment Awards |
 The SocialWork 2000 recruitment team was extremely proud to be nominated as a finalist for the London and South East Recruitment Team of the Year award. Nearly 400 recruitment industry specialists and dignitaries from across London and the South East attended the award ceremony at the Radisson Hotel in Portman Square, London on Friday 26th October.
The event was organised by Archant London and principal sponsor the Recruitment Employment Confederation and hosted by award winning columnist, presenter and producer Paul Ross.
Jo Revitt, who organised the event on behalf of Archant London, said "The awards are now in their second year, and we were delighted to receive nearly 100 entries from across London and the South East. The evening was a huge success - everyone had a fantastic time celebrating well deserved successes from within this brilliant industry". |
| Understanding Neglect - The Forgotten Abuse |
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Six social workers representing SocialWork 2000 attended this conference
hosted by Ward Andrews Centre for Children and their Families.
This is the second annual conference Ward Andrews have organised and over 60 delegates were again offered excellent value for money as well as an entertaining and informative day.
The conference held in Milton Keynes was attended by a range of professionals from social care, law and health, and focused on new research that highlights the impact of neglect on early years and in particular brain development.
Professor Euan Ross from the Kings College London, spoke about neonatal care and the direct link between addiction, social background, poverty and poor child development. Peter Parnes Clinical Psychologist offered insight into attachment and early year’s, highlighting the need to address a child’s relationships much earlier than previously thought. Barbara Hutchinson of BAAF reflected upon the current practice of leaving children suffering neglect at home for longer than those suffering other forms of abuse. She expressed her concerns about how this impacts on their ability to attach and adds to their emotional problems.
All the speakers agreed that by the age of two a child’s developmental blue print was set, meaning that despite direct stimulation critical developmental stages would already be lost, reducing a child’s life potential dramatically.
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| Ever Worked with a Hoarder? |
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We warmly welcome contributions from our locums in our newsletter and invite you to email us at mail@socialwork2000.co.uk with your articles. This month social worker Alison Barr describes her research into the difficulties of working with hoarders and offers some suggestions.
I expect many of us working across a range of social care services have come across a service user who lives in total squalor, often amassing piles of rubbish and seemingly unable to throw anything away. It can be absolutely baffling trying to understand the reasons behind such extreme behaviour, and it can also make us feel like failures in our jobs when even our most assertive attempts to try to help them clear their home up a bit are flatly refused. Hoarding can present huge risks to the service user themselves, their family, neighbours and even the wider community around them. Fires, floods, electric shocks, vermin, structural damage as well as the more hidden issues around quality of life are all potential problems; in other words a lot of work for a social care worker!
Click here to read the full article. |
| Bucks County Council Suppliers Day |
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 In October Emma, Jo and James presented ourselves to Social Services managers at a Suppliers Day organised by Buckinghamshire County Council in Aylesbury. As former employees of Bucks we are very proud of the relationship that we have with the authority. Over 7 years we have supplied in excess of 150,000 locum hours to their Social Services. We are their largest supplier of temporary Qualified Social Workers and Social Care workers. Find out more about the authority at http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bcc/. |
| Can you Help a Social Work Student? |
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As some of you know, the social work degree requires that students are given the opportunity to shadow a qualified social worker. Bucks New University (BCUC) need to hear from social workers willing to help.
The first year students need to shadow a qualified social worker for two days during the month of November or at the latest the first part of December. They are available on Wednesdays and Fridays and, possibly on Tuesday afternoons. Apart from having someone follow you, all you have to do is to complete a very brief form, which takes about five minutes, and return it to the University stating whether the students turned up on time, whether they asked appropriate questions etc.
If any of you or colleague in your team or agency would be interested in having a
student for just two days, then please contact Shelia Blackmore on 01494 522141 as soon as possible. The University would be very happy to provide verification that you have undertaken this if you need it for your continuing professional development.
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| New Jobs Opportunities on our Website |
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We continue to respond to the comments and ideas people put forward to us when they completed the 'Help Us to Help You' questionnaires in the summer.
In our last newsletter we addressed the request for more information about PRTL and PQ courses and there is now a great deal of regularly updated information available to you on our website.
This month we address the request for more information about jobs available. Click onto the Our Vacancies button on our website to see regularly updated jobs. Just click on the Apply Now button to submit your details and a Recruitment Adviser will contact you to discuss your requirements further.
If you are already working for us just call your personal Recruitment Adviser if you see a job that interests you – you do not need to re-register.
This month we have a wide selection of locum vacancies in mental health teams that we are keen to fill. In particular, we have mental health teams in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire looking for qualified social workers. So, if you are either a newly qualified or experienced practitioner, we want to hear from you. Do not delay, contact us now on 01494 555 220 for the High Wycombe office, or 01908 547880 for the Milton Keynes office.
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