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?!
]]>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
]]>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.