Building the Professional Capabilities Framework (7 th Feb 2012)

Building the Professional Capabilities Framework (7 th Feb 2012) 1. Professionalism: Identify and behave as a professional social worker, committed to professional development END OF QUALIFYING LEVEL 1.1 Be able to meet the requirements of the professional regulator END OF ASYE SOCIAL WORKER EXPERIENCED SOCIAL WORKER Be able to meet the requirements of the professional regulator Be able to meet the requirements of the professional regulator Be able to meet the requirements of the professional regulator ADVANCED SOCIAL WORK PRACITIONER MANAGER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR Be able to meet the requirements of the professional regulator 1.2 Be able to explain the role of the social worker in a range of contexts, and uphold the reputation of the profession 1.3 Demonstrate an effective and active use of supervision for accountability, professional reflection and development 1.4 Demonstrate professionalism in Make pro active use of supervision to reflect critically on practice, explore different approaches to your work, support your development across the nine capabilities and understand the boundaries of professional accountability, seeking support and advice appropriately Promote the profession in a growing range of contexts Take responsibility for obtaining regular, effective supervision from a SW for effective practice, reflection and career development Maintain professionalism in the face of more Model the social work role, set expectations for others and contribute to the public face of the organisation. Expect supervision that covers practice, organisational and management aspects of role, applying critical reflection throughout Model and help others to demonstrate professionalism Explain and promote social work and decision making within and outside the organisation. Formally represent the profession on behalf of the organisation at a senior level Ensure high quality supervision, with a range of approaches, throughout the organisation Ensure professional social work standards are maintained throughout 1

terms of presentation, demeanour, reliability, honesty and respectfulness 1.5 Take responsibility for managing your time and workload effectively, and begin to prioritise your activity including supervision time 1.6 Recognise the impact of self in interaction with others, making appropriate use of personal experience 1.7 Be able to recognise and maintain personal and professional boundaries Demonstrate workload management skills, including prioritisation Adapt personal/professional boundaries in response to changing and more complex contexts. Recognise the relationship between organisational and professional responsibility challenging circumstances Manage workload independently, seeking support and suggesting solutions for workload difficulties Maintain appropriate personal/professional boundaries in more challenging circumstances. Make skilled use of self as part of your interventions Model and help others with effective workload management skills Model and help others to maintain professional/personal boundaries and skilled use of self the organisation Promote the positive use of workload tools; inform the organisation s workload management and planning. Model and help others to maintain professional/personal boundaries and skilled use of self 1.8 Recognise your professional limitations, and how to seek advice 1.9 Demonstrate a commitment to your continuing learning and development Identify your learning needs, including contribution to, completion and updating of ASYE personal development plan, assume responsibility for improving your practice through appropriate professional development Maintain awareness of own professional limitations and knowledge gaps. Establish a network of internal and external colleagues from whom to seek advice and expertise. Identify and act on learning needs for CPD, including through supervision Maintain awareness of own professional limitations and knowledge gaps. Establish a network of internal and external colleagues from whom to seek advice and expertise. Contribute to a learning environment for self, team and, colleagues Practice Educator Standards Stage 2 Domain D (see also capability 9) Maintain awareness of own professional limitations and knowledge gaps. Establish a network of internal and external colleagues from whom to seek advice and expertise. Ensure a learning environment within the work place 2

1.10 With support, take steps to manage and promote own safety, health, wellbeing and emotional resilience Develop ways to promote wellbeing at work, identifying strategies to protect and promote your own well being Routinely promote wellbeing at work Recognise and seek ways to promote well-being for team and colleagues Ensure work environment promotes health, safety and wellbeing of self and others. 1.11 Identify concerns about practice and procedures and, with support, begin to find appropriate means of challenge Develop confidence and strategies for responding to concerns about practice or procedures, (gaining support through supervision) acting on circumstances where a service including your own does not adequately address the rights of people through challenge or enabling access to independent representation and/or advocacy Raise and address issues of poor practice, internally through the organisation, and then independently if required. Promote up to date expectations about practice norms, identifying and helping resolve poor practice issues. Identify and help to resolve concerns about practice and procedures. 3

2. Values and Ethics: Apply social work ethical principles and values to guide professional practice END OF QUALIFYING LEVEL END OF ASYE SOCIAL WORKER EXPERIENCED SOCIAL WORKER ADVANCED SOCIAL WORK PRACITIONER MANAGER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR 2.1 Understand and apply the profession s ethical principles and legislation, taking account of these in reaching decisions Demonstrate confident application of ethical reasoning to professional practice, rights and entitlements, questioning and challenging others using a legal and human rights framework Demonstrate confident and critical application of professional ethical principles to decision-making and practice, supporting others to do so using a legal and human rights framework. Provide guidance and challenge to others on ethical issues, informed by effective service user engagement, and contribute to the development and evaluation of human rights and ethical principles to underpin organisational governance 2.2 Recognise and, with support, manage the impact of own values upon professional practice 2.3 Manage potentially conflicting or competing values, and, with guidance, recognise, reflect on, and work with ethical dilemmas Use ethnical reasoning to arrive at principled decisions, recognising the impact of your own values, working with ethical dilemmas, conflict and ambiguity Critically reflect on and manage the influence and impact of own and others values on professional practice Recognise and manage conflicting values and ethical dilemmas, in practice, using supervision and team discussion, questioning and challenging others, including those from other professions Model and support others to reflect on and manage the influence and impact of own values on professional practice Provide guidance and support to analyse, reflect on and work with ethical dilemmas Provide challenge to others and ensure provision and uptake of development opportunities to enable reflection on and management of the influence and impact of own values on professional practice Provide expert professional opinion where there are ethical dilemmas (AP) Demonstrate confident management and arbitration of ethical dilemmas (SWM) Ensure provision of development opportunities and guidance on ethical dilemmas 4

2.4 Demonstrate respectful partnership work with service users and carers, eliciting and respecting their needs and views, and promoting their participation in decisionmaking wherever possible Negotiate and establish boundaries to underpin partnership work with service users, carers and their networks, using transparency and honesty Demonstrate confident application of an understanding of the benefits and limitations of partnership work, support others to do so, and promote service user and carer participation in developing service delivery Promote effective partnership working within the organisation, contributing to policies and practice that enable meaningful participation, and evaluate service user involvement 2.5 Recognise and promote individuals rights to autonomy and self-determination Ensure practice is underpinned by policy, procedures and code of conduct to promote individuals rights to determine their own solutions, promoting problem-solving skills, whilst recognising how and when self-determination may be constrained (by the law) Promote and advance wherever possible individual s rights to autonomy and self-determination, providing support, guidance and challenge to others. Ensure individuals rights to autonomy and self-determination are promoted and advanced, contributing to the development of polices and practice to support this. 2.6 Promote and protect the privacy of individuals within and outside their families and networks, recognising the requirements of professional accountability and information sharing Work to protect privacy and promote trust, whilst being able to justify, explain and take appropriate action when the right to privacy is overridden by professional or legal requirements Demonstrate skills in the sensitive exploration of issues of privacy and information-sharing in complex or risky situations, offering support and guidance to colleagues in managing such these dilemmas Model, identify and promote best practice, policy, procedures and training about confidentiality, informed by current evidence. Ensure data protection and safeguarding legislation is applied, and take appropriate action if necessary 5

3. Diversity: Recognise diversity and apply anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive principles in practice END OF QUALIFYING LEVEL END OF ASYE SOCIAL WORKER EXPERIENCED SOCIAL WORKER ADVANCED SOCIAL WORK PRACITIONER MANAGER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR 3.1 Understand how an individual s identity is informed by factors such as culture, economic status, family composition, life experiences and characteristics, and take account of these to understand their experiences, questioning assumptions where necessary Identify and take account of Recognise the complexity of the significance of diversity on identity and diversity of the lives of people, and show experience, and apply this to application of this practice understanding in your practice Inform, guide and model good practice in the application of understanding of identity and diversity to practice; identifying and taking up issues when principles of diversity are contravened in the organisation Promote positive approaches to diversity in the organisation, providing guidance and challenge as required. Contribute to policy development and decision-making at local, regional and national levels 3.2 With reference to current legislative requirements, recognise personal and organisational discrimination and oppression and with guidance make use of a range of approaches to challenge them Develop strategies and be able to implement them to challenge oppression and discrimination Recognise discriminatory practices and develop a range of approaches to appropriately challenge service users, colleagues & senior staff Model critically reflective practice and support others to recognise and challenge discrimination, identifying and referring breaches and limitations in the ability of your own or other organisations ability to advance equality and diversity and comply with the law Provide expert professional advice and challenge on issues of discrimination and oppression, and contribute to the development of organisational and professional practices and procedures 3.3 Recognise and manage the impact on people of the power invested in your role Identify the impact of the Critically reflect on and Demonstrate and model the Contribute to the development of best power invested in your role, manage the power of your role effective and positive use of power practice in use of power and authority in recognising the potential effect in your relationship with others and authority, whilst recognising the organisation on the intervention and adjust your practice accordingly and providing guidance to others as to how it may be used oppressively 6

4. Rights, Justice and Economic Wellbeing: Advance human rights and promote social justice and economic well-being END OF QUALIFYING LEVEL END OF ASYE SOCIAL WORKER EXPERIENCED SOCIAL WORKER ADVANCED SOCIAL WORK PRACITIONER MANAGER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR 4.1 Understand, identify and apply in practice the principles of social justice, social inclusion and equality 4.2 Understand how legislation and guidance can advance or constrain people s rights and recognise how the law may be used to protect or advance their rights and entitlements Promote opportunities to address oppression and discrimination, having identified factors that contribute to inequality and exclusion Routinely integrate the principles and entitlements of social justice, social inclusion and equality, and with support, consider how and when challenge may be needed Routinely apply the law to protect and advance people s rights and entitlements, identifying and highlighting situations where interpretations of the law are neither proportionate nor fair to promote autonomy and selfdetermination Provide guidance and challenge to Monitor practice to ensure application of others about applying the the principles of social justice, social principles of social justice, social inclusion and equality, and contribute to inclusion and equality to decisionmaking. to support policies and development opportunities them Demonstrate ability to interpret and use current legislation and guidance to protect and/or advance people s rights and entitlements, balancing use of different legislation to achieve the best outcomes; support colleagues (both inside and outside the organisation) to do so Ensure that service is compliant with the law and best practice through provision of expert advice. Facilitate challenge in situations where the interpretation of the law is neither fair nor proportionate Be able to communicate legislative issues to other professionals and agencies 7

4.3 Work within the principles of human and civil rights and equalities legislation, differentiating and beginning to work with absolute, qualified and competing rights and differing needs and perspectives Apply the principles and Model best practice in applying entitlements of human and civil human and civil rights, providing rights to analyse, evaluate and support to others and challenge challenge interventions that are where required unlawful and / or disproportionate. Analyse differing needs, perspectives and competing rights and apply to practice Provide expert advice in complex legal situations where there are competing issues, and contribute to policy and practice developments for service improvement 4.4 Recognise the impact of poverty and social exclusion and promote enhanced economic status through access to education, work, housing, health services and welfare benefits 4.5 Recognise the value of - and aid access to - independent advocacy Enable and support people to consider and pursue a range of options that may enhance economic status (through access to education, work, housing, health services and welfare benefits) Support others to enable individuals to access opportunities that may enhance their economic status (e.g. education, work, housing, health services & welfare benefits) Where appropriate, set up and/ Promote access to independent or enable access to effective advocacy, ensuring best practice independent advocacy and critical review, and contribute to the evaluation of independent advocacy Monitor and report on the impact of strategies (including procurement) to promote social inclusion and diminish poverty, contributing to new approaches and practice expertise Offer professional SW liaison and contribution to those providing independent advocacy, ensuring that conflicts of interests are addressed 8

5. Knowledge: Apply knowledge of human growth and development, psychological, social sciences, law and social work practice theory END OF QUALIFYING LEVEL 5.1 Demonstrate a critical understanding of the application to social work of research, theory and knowledge from sociology, social policy, psychology and health 5.2 Demonstrate a critical understanding of the legal and policy frameworks and guidance that inform and mandate social work practice, recognising the scope for professional judgement END OF ASYE SOCIAL WORKER EXPERIENCED SOCIAL WORKER Consolidate and develop the knowledge gained in your initial training, and demonstrate comprehensive understanding and use of knowledge related to your specialist area of practice, including critical awareness of current issues and new evidence based practice research Demonstrate appropriate application of the legal, policy frameworks and guidance that inform and mandate social work practice. Recognise where scope for professional judgement exists and use professional legal expertise and advice appropriately Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding and use of knowledge related to your area of practice, including critical awareness of current issues and new evidence based practice research Develop knowledge in one or more specialist areas of your practice. Expand your knowledge to inform the connections between this and other settings or areas of practice ADVANCED SOCIAL WORK PRACITIONER MANAGER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR Demonstrate a systematic understanding of knowledge, and a critical awareness of current problems and new insights, including those at the forefront of social work thinking in your field Show originality in the application of knowledge, together with a practical understanding of how established techniques of research and enquiry are used to create and interpret knowledge in the discipline 9

5.3 Demonstrate and apply to practice a working knowledge of human growth and development throughout the life course 5.4 Recognise the short and long term impact of psychological, socioeconomic, environmental and physiological factors on people s lives, taking into account age and development, and how this informs practice 5.5 Recognise how systemic approaches can be used to understand the person-inthe-environment and inform your practice 5.6 Acknowledge the centrality of relationships for people and the key concepts of attachment, separation, loss, change and resilience 5.7 Understand forms of harm and their impact on people, and the implications for practice, drawing on concepts of strength, resilience, vulnerability, 10

risk and resistance, and apply to practice 5.8 Demonstrate a critical knowledge of the range of theories and models for social work intervention with individuals, families, groups and communities, and the methods derived from them 5.9 Demonstrate a critical understanding of social welfare policy, its evolution, implementation and impact on people, social work, other professions, and interagency working 5.10 Recognise the contribution, and begin to make use, of research to inform practice 5.11 Demonstrate a critical understanding of research methods 5.12 Value and take account of the expertise of service users, carers and professionals 11

6. Critical reflection and decision making: Apply critical reflection and analysis to inform and provide a rationale for professional decision-making END OF QUALIFYING LEVEL 6.1 Apply imagination, creativity and curiosity to practice 6.2 Inform decision-making through the identification and gathering of information from multiple sources, actively seeking new sources 6.3 With support, rigorously question and evaluate the reliability and validity of information from different sources 6.4 Demonstrate a capacity for logical, systematic, critical and reflective reasoning and apply the theories and techniques of reflective practice 6.5 Know how to formulate, test, evaluate, and review hypotheses in response to information available at the time and apply in practice 6.6 Begin to formulate and make explicit, evidenceinformed judgements END OF ASYE SOCIAL WORKER EXPERIENCED SOCIAL WORKER Show creativity in tackling and solving problems Use reflective practice techniques critically to analyse information gained from a variety of sources, to construct hypotheses and inform decision making and planning Routinely and efficiently apply critical reflection and analysis to increasingly complex cases Draw on a wide range of evidence sources to inform decision making Ensure hypotheses and options are reviewed to inform judgement and decision making Start to provide professional opinion Model critical reflection and evidence-based decision-making, and support others in developing these Provide professional opinion, giving the rationale and knowledge-base ADVANCED SOCIAL WORK PRACITIONER MANAGER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR Provide opportunities for and expectations of creative practice (SWM + AP) Model and promote a reflective practice culture Support and advise others about available knowledge and evidence Routinely provide professional opinion 12

7. Intervention and Skills: Use judgement and authority to intervene with individuals, families and communities to promote independence, provide support and prevent harm, neglect and abuse END OF QUALIFYING LEVEL 7.1 Identify and apply a range of verbal, non-verbal and written methods of communication and adapt them in line with peoples age, comprehension and culture END OF ASYE SOCIAL WORKER EXPERIENCED SOCIAL WORKER Use a range of strategies to engage and communicate effectively with service users, eliciting the needs, wishes and feelings of all those involved, taking account of situations where these wishes and feelings are not explicitly expressed Communicate with compassion and authority in challenging situations and with resistant individuals ADVANCED SOCIAL WORK PRACITIONER MANAGER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR Provide an appropriate organisational response to identified communications needs (SWM) Ensure practice in all settings is supported by strong communication skills 7.2 Be able to communicate information, advice, instruction and professional opinion so as to advocate, influence and persuade Demonstrate clear communication of evidencebased professional reasoning, judgements and decisions, to professional and non-professional audiences Routinely explain professional reasoning, judgements and decisions Communicate skilfully and confidently in complex or high risk situations. Model and help others to develop communication skills. Communicate to wide range of audiences for different purposes and at different levels, including public speaking Communicate effectively in highly charged, complex or challenging circumstance in ways which support professional decision making. 7.3 Demonstrate the ability to engage with people, and build, manage, sustain and conclude compassionate and Build and use relationships with a wide range of family, networks and professionals, to improve outcomes, showing an ability to Engage effectively with people in complex situations, both short-term and building relationships over time Sustain and model engagement with people in fluctuating circumstances and capacities, including where there is hostility Ensure practice, policy and procedures demonstrate the importance of effective, compassionate relationships with 13

effective relationships overcome resistance and risk. people who use services. 7.4 Demonstrate a holistic approach to the identification of needs, circumstances, rights, strengths and risks 7.5 Select and use appropriate frameworks to assess, give meaning to, plan, implement and review effective interventions and evaluate the outcomes, in partnership with service users Apply information gathering skills to make and contribute to assessments, whilst continuing to build relationships and offer help Select and use appropriate social work interventions, informed by evidence of their effectiveness identifying the approaches best suited to the service user(s), setting and self, in order to promote positive change. Gather information so as to inform judgement for interventions in more complex situations and in response to challenge. Use assessment procedures discerningly so as to inform judgement Develop a range of interventions; use them effectively and evaluate them in practice. Be able to gather information quickly and effectively so as to inform judgement for interventions including in crises, and in response to challenge, or in the absence of complete information.. Use assessment procedures discerningly so as to inform judgement Maintain and expand a range of frameworks for assessment and intervention Undertake complex assessments and make sound judgements for in acute situations or in the absence of complete information. (AP) Manage risk, support professional decision making and take final decisions (SWM) Provide expertise in specialist field, acting as resource to team and agency to develop practice; engage in research and evaluation of practice.(ap+swm) Support knowledge and skills development for effective practice (PE) 7.6 Use a planned and structured approach, informed by social work methods, models and tools, to promote positive change and independence and to prevent harm Make timely decisions, and begin to adapt work in circumstances where positive change is not happening Expand intervention methods and demonstrate expertise in one or more specific methods relevant to your setting. Make timely decisions when positive change is not happening Demonstrate skilled use of a range of frameworks for assessment and intervention Provide expertise in specialist field, acting as resource to team and agency to develop practice; engage in research and evaluation of practice.(ap+swm) Support knowledge and skills development for effective practice (PE) 14

7.7 Recognise how the development of community resources, groups and networks enhance outcomes for individuals 7.8 Maintain accurate, comprehensible, succinct and timely records and reports in accordance with applicable legislation, protocols and guidelines, to support professional judgement and organisational responsibilities 7.9 Demonstrate skills in sharing information appropriately and respectfully Record information in a timely and accurate manner. Write records and reports, for a variety of purposes with language suited to function, using information management systems. Distinguish fact from opinion, and record conflicting views and perspectives Apply information-sharing consistently in a way that meets legal requirements Actively support and initiate community groups and networks, including professional ones Clearly report and record analysis and judgements, Demonstrate and promote appropriate information sharing Actively support and initiate community groups and networks, including professional ones Contribute to the development of the organisation s information strategy and systems Model and help others with appropriate information sharing Influence and negotiate community and service development with the wider organisation and commissioners (SWM+AP) Provide organisational engagement with service user groups.(swm+ap) Ensure information systems and records support good practice and maintain a focus on positive outcomes for service users (SWM+PE) Contribute to the development of the organisation s information strategy and systems (AP) Advise on and contribute to organisation s information governance and ensure implementation is congruent with SW practice and legal requirements (SWM+PE) Model and help others with appropriate information sharing (AP) 7.10 Recognise complexity, multiple factors, changing circumstances and uncertainty in people s lives, be able to prioritise your intervention Use contingency planning to anticipate complexity and changing circumstances Model and help others to manage changing circumstances Promote use of evidence and theory to support practice in complex and changing circumstance (AP +PE) Ensure team is aware of changing trends that impact on service users (SWM) 15

7.11 Understand the authority of the social work role and begin to use this appropriately and confidently as an accountable professional Use authority appropriately in your role, demonstrating understanding of your professional accountability as a representative of your organisation and as an individual professional Recognise and appropriately manage the authority inherent in your position Recognise and appropriately manage the authority inherent in your position Provide practice consultation, and promote respect for social work authority in a diversity of settings. (AP) Ensure practice reflects appropriate use of authority 7.12 Recognise the factors that create or exacerbate risk to individuals, their families or carers, to the public or to professionals, including yourself, and contribute to the assessment and management of risk Demonstrate understanding of and respond to risk factors in your practice. Contribute to the assessment and management of risk, distinguishing levels of risk for different situations Demonstrate confident and effective judgement about risk and accountability in your decisions Anticipate, assess and manage risk, including in more complex cases, and support others to develop risk management skills Contribute social work expertise to the setting and review of thresholds, priorities and protocols for risk management and safeguarding, based on local information and expertise. (SWM+AP) 7.13 With support, identify appropriate responses to safeguard vulnerable people and promote their well being Demonstrate application of principles and practice for safeguarding adults and children including the ability to suspect potential abuse. Apply strategies that aim to prevent abuse and harm Regularly undertake assessment and planning for safeguarding Undertake assessment and planning for safeguarding in more complex cases, and help others with safeguarding skills 16

8. Contexts and organisations: Engage with, inform, and adapt to changing contexts that shape practice. Operate effectively within own organisational frameworks and contribute to the development of services and organisations. Operate effectively within multi-agency and interprofessional partnerships and settings END OF QUALIFYING LEVEL END OF ASYE SOCIAL WORKER EXPERIENCED SOCIAL WORKER ADVANCED SOCIAL WORK PRACITIONER MANAGER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR 8.1 Recognise that social work operates within, and responds to, changing economic, social, political and organisational contexts Keep abreast of changing context at local and national level, and take account of these in practice Contribute positively to the dialogue about opportunities and constraints for social work practice arising from changing local and national contexts and model proactive responses Anticipate and positively manage change in the social work environment drawing on practice information and data 8.2 Understand the roles and responsibilities of social workers in a range of organisations, lines of accountability and the boundaries of professional autonomy and discretion Work effectively as a member of a team, in other meetings and with other professionals, demonstrating the ability to develop and maintain appropriate professional relationships Demonstrate the ability to work within your own organisation, and identify and begin to work with the relationship between the organisation, practice and wider changing contexts Model and demonstrate the ability to work within your own organisation, and regularly work with relationship between the organisation, practice and wider changing contexts Provides leadership beyond own profession to other agencies and non-social work professionals 17

8.3 Understand legal obligations, structures and behaviours within organisations and how these impact on policy, procedure and practice Work to and explain the relevant legal structures in the organisation, including basic case law; know when and how to access support and appropriate legal advice and consultation Demonstrate sound working knowledge of all relevant legal requirements, and their implications for practice; support and advise others to interpret and use the law Ensure legal advice is taken when required 8.4 Be able to work within an organisation s remit and contribute to its evaluation and development Explore, and identify how organisational practice can support good social work practice Engage positively with and contribute to organisational development Contribute to organisational development. Ensure capacity for trained assessors, educators and mentors for professional development pathways at all levels (PE) 8.5 Understand and respect the role of others within the organisation and work effectively with them Keep abreast of changing roles in the organisation; recognise, value and engage with other specialist perspectives Identify the need for the development of specialist roles and their contribution to team learning Oversee performance management issues arising through training (PE+SWM) 8.6 Take responsibility for your role and impact within teams and be able to contribute positively to effective team working Be confident about your role in the team, working positively with others; draw on and contribute to team working and collaborative support wherever possible Model and encourage positive working relationships in the team, promoting strategies for collaboration and a supportive team culture Ensure positive working relationships in the team, promoting strategies for collaboration and a supportive team culture (SWM) 8.7 Understand the interagency, multidisciplinary and interprofessional dimensions to practice and demonstrate effective partnership working Proactively engage with partner agencies, colleagues and community groups to identify, assess and plan to meet the needs of service users and communities Take an active role in interprofessional and interagency work, building own network and collaborative working. Maintain and develop liaison across agencies at a more senior level Contribute to liaison across agencies at a senior level, and ensure team culture of collaborative working (AP+SWM) Take responsibility for in-house and external partnerships for qualifying education and CPD (PE) 18

9. Professional Leadership: Take responsibility for the professional learning and development of others through supervision, mentoring, assessing, research, teaching, leadership and management END OF QUALIFYING LEVEL 9.1 Recognise the importance of, and begin to demonstrate, professional leadership as a social worker END OF ASYE SOCIAL WORKER EXPERIENCED SOCIAL WORKER Assume responsibility for leading practice through the manner in which you conduct your professional role, your contribution to supervision and to team meetings Contribute to and promote the development of practice, taking the initiative to test new approaches Contribute to organisational developments. Play leading role in practice development in the team and help sustain a learning culture. ADVANCED SOCIAL WORK PRACITIONER MANAGER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR Assure quality, effectiveness and appropriateness of supervision for the work team and ensure supervisors are supervised (SWM) Contribute to the identification of staff development needs and their resolution (SWM) Take responsibility for a strategic overview of professional development within the workplace (PE) Ensure individual and organisational practice is informed by current research and knowledge Promote, articulate and support a positive social work identity 19

9.2 Recognise the value of, and contribute to supporting the learning and development of others Take steps to enable the learning and development of others, such as contributing to the assessment of a student, or assisting with a presentation Contribute to the learning of others Practice Educator Standards Stage 1: Domain A,B,C Provide supervision to colleagues as organisation determines. Support others to manage and prioritise work Assess and manage the work of social work students and ASYE. Practice Educator Standards Stage 2: Domain B & C (see also capability 1) Help to develop leadership skills in others (SWM) Initiate, plan and deliver the organisation s response to emergent professional issues (PE) Develop materials to support learning in practice (PE) Lead the sharing and dissemination of good practice across partnerships (PE) Lead arrangements for practice learning and ASYE (creating and supporting, managing supply and demand and QA) (PE) Manage complaints and appeals arising from qualifying education and CPD (PE) Promote a culture of professional curiosity 20