Social Worker UK Career & job Advice, Decision Making

Social Worker UK: How to make SAFE ethical decisions in social work and ethical decisions in practice with EXAMPLES Not a video about ethics more about decisions Social Workers & Student Social Workers make in your Social Work Career.

Alasdair Kennedy’s 22 year career ( aka the sociable social worker) as a Fostering & Adoption Social Worker, manager, and consultant working in the UK fostering and adoption sector makes him an expert in his social work field. SWE Standards: Promote ethical practice and report concerns
As a social worker, I will:

6.1 Report allegations of harm and challenge and report exploitation and any dangerous, abusive or discriminatory behaviour or practice.

6.2 Reflect on my working environment and where necessary challenge practices, systems and processes to uphold Social Work England’s professional standards.

6.3 Inform people of the right to complain and provide them with the support to do it, and record and act on concerns raised to me.

6.4 Take appropriate action when a professional’s practice may be impaired.

6.5 Raise concerns about organisational wrongdoing and cultures of inappropriate and unsafe practice.

6.6 Declare to the appropriate authority and Social Work England anything that might affect my ability to do my job competently or may affect my fitness to practise, or if I am subject to criminal proceedings or a regulatory finding is made against me, anywhere in the world.

6.7 Cooperate with any investigations by my employer, Social Work England, or another agency, into my fitness to practise or the fitness to practise of others

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Time Code:
0:00 Intro
0:40 Trust your gut
2:13 Hypothesis
2:30 Making bad decisions
4:22 Unconscious bias


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