Enhancing Social Work Skills and

confidence buildingby Chris Dyke

Motivation

Do you really want to do the job?

Not just a…

Physical job

Intellectual job

Emotional job

Political job

Social job

ALL OF THESE!

(and more)

What motivates you?

Managing Workloads: organising yourself…

To-do list for Wednesday1. Reply to new emails/messages (by 10am)

2. Write casenote from last night’s visit (by 11am)

3. FINISH Jones Assessment (by 12:30pm)

Lunch12:30-1:15

4. Re-read papers for Smith case

5. Leave for Smith visit at 2pm, get 14:08 train2:30pm: Smith Home Visit, 123 Wilson Road6. Back by ?4:15pm

7. Write up Smith casenote (by 5pm)

ANXIETY ABOUT THE WORK(venting about stress to colleagues, complaining, ‘freezing’,

talking to people outside work about stress)

THE WORK(the whole thing: talking to children/families; writing

reports; going to meetings; having supervision; reflecting; learning; training etc)

ARGUING ABOUT THE WORK(arguments over why you can’t do it, why someone else

should be doing it; having meetings about who should do the work; having meetings about why it hasn’t been done)

This is tough, but do-able: {

This is impossible:{

Boundaries and emotional health

Reflection Integrity Reliability