Practice week 11th – 15th November – story

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This is our second Practice week building on the success of last year

which celebrated our adoption of strengths based practice. This

year we have expanded to include our Adult colleagues and have

themed the weeks learning around trauma informed practice and

care.

Our weeks delivery model is straighforward and grounded in

Developing and strengthening the Knowledge and skills of

the workforce

Bringing in subject experts and leading academics

Offering a wide range of accessible workshops each day

Providing a motivating learning Conference with key note

speakers

Promoting research and evidence led practice

Engaging Senior Leaders and Managers in practice

observations; 19 scheduled across childrens services

Providing appreciation and wellbeing support for the

workforce

Amazing to see “social workers from Middlesbrough are keen to

put research into practice in a difficult time of social work .. hats

of with respect” twitter feed to PSW

9 themed Workshops repeated each day

354 attendees

Scaling confidence and skills against workshop outcomes

Improvements ranging from 23% - 77%

Voice of the child - led by our young people

Emotional Resilience

Trauma Informed Practice. ”It starts with us”

Sex Work “The Real Story”

Impact of Trauma upon Children, Adolescents & Adults

Trauma informed practice and support to survivors of domestic abuse

Worker emotions and their impact

Ccinform – on line research and tools

“I did a couple of the sessions and they were great and all other feedback

I’ve heard was really positive.”

Sessions were all “well attended series of events culminating in some

really inspirational speakers. I know that the speakers I heard had an

impact on me and hopefully their words will inspire the Social Work

population to understand the different perspectives and to know they

make a difference, even if it doesn’t feel like it sometimes.”

2 Practice Conferences – 175 attendees :Two key note speakers

Professor David Shemmings

“relational trauma needs

relational repair”

Professor David Shemmings

“you have the opportunity

to change peoples lives

every single day …how you

want to be remembered is

what you neeed to ask

yourself “

Luke Rogers

A truly inspirational day

Executive Directors of Adult and Childrens care , key note speakers,

adult and childrens PSW’s and workforce development

Including a range of information stalls; universities, Skills for care

Dfe; NAAS, ccinform, foster carers on Conference day

Health and wellbeing Market place - over 50 attendees, 43

pledges from staff to care for themselves

“Promote Trauma to all providers and embed trauma informed principles & practice in to

the community model and within all provision for DA & SV. I also pledge to look after me

whilst ding this!”

“Put myself in the place of others and take time to reflect on my actions”

“Maintain Positive and try to keep morale up”

“Spend more time meditating, reading, taking time for myself & start yoga again”

“Acknowledge when I am feeling uncertain about my abilities to speak to someone in the

team to ensure I get the support I need”

“Consider mine and others emotional capacity….. We are all human”

“Take more time for myself and reflect on my practice”

“Being more aware when things seem to be getting out of control. To try to ground myself

by taking 5 mins out. Taking deep breaths and speaking to others to try to make things

more manageable”

“Make time to enjoy myself outside of work to destress and refocus”

“Ensure I make time for myself each day & walk more”

“Keep going and look after myself and others”

“Acknowledge my value”

“Continue on my learning journey to become the best social worker possible”

“Be kind don’t give up”

“Get the right balance between work demands and home”

“Stop and take stock regularly throughout the day”

“Take walks at lunchtime everyday”

“Look after myself and be there for others”

“Try and not take work home with me”

“Make time for myself occasionally”

“Have a 30min lunch break every day and read the books / materials to support my

wellbeing”

“Be more assertive and know when to say no”

No wrong door launch with partners from NYCC

Our new Manager and Colleagues from No Wrong Door in NYCC

We were able to share the work we have been doing with NYCC as

part of the DfE trailblazer initiative to develop our Future for

Families service.

Creating a learning culture with partners

“It was great to see our students being given the opportunity to be there

and to get involved. It was also a good networking opportunity for

everyone. I had useful conversations with the Regional Lead from Skills for

Care and Community Care Inform and discovered things I didn’t know. I

shared with my team just what a good conference it was. …I also think it

is fantastic that the local authority is shifting practice with children based

on a tried and tested and carefully evaluated model. Great to see more

emphasis on prevention and ongoing support.”

“Myself and Rachel really enjoyed working with your staff in the two

workshops that we delivered. Your staff were enthusiastic, passionate

about what they do and engaged really well with the sessions asking lots

of questions to help improve understanding and outcomes for the people

that we are all working with. We came away feeling very proud of being

part of a large multi-agency team alongside your staff who are striving to

make a difference and be person centred in Middlesbrough.”