Save The Social Worker

27/10/2020

Maybe you're tired of working from home. Or not seeing your colleagues. Or from looking at your screen all day.

Maybe you're tired of social work. And wondering if it's time to quit.

These are tough times for people. But more so for professionals like you, in helping them.

Together with local calligraphers, we crafted, designed, and hand-wrote 22 cards to lift you and your team during this time. We hope you like them as much as we do 🙂

Working with Singaporean calligrapher Alicia from Alyletters, we built this to share a message of hope, love and encouragement to social workers during this time. 

27/10/2020

Social work is a noble profession in its right, it is a unique position of helping people and yet refrain from being judgmental to their situation and their changing circumstances.

However, such a career also has its challenges, there are different, and possibly difficult times. In times like these, we hope these words of encouragement help to remind yourself that you're doing great work, that you matter because taking care of your physical and emotional well-being is just as important as helping your clients.

26/10/2020

As a social worker, what are you here to do?
Are you here to survive?
Or are you here to thrive?
And to help others strive?

26/10/2020

How do you write better case notes?

As a 2nd-year student social worker on placement, I used to hate writing case notes

Until my professor showed me why it was important to write case notes. We even had a graded assignment on case notes! Why is it so important?

Click the line below to find out!

Good case notes in social work are hard to write. This list of 5 tips, ranging from separating observations from opinions to feedback, will help.

26/10/2020

You might have great managers.
Or not so good ones.
Yet what distinguishes the good and the not so good ones?
This week, Professor John Devaney, a professor of social work at the University of Edinburgh shares with us his research into how the best managers led.
He also shares how young social workers can lead too.

How do I lead other social workers during this difficult time? How do I manage other social workers in my team? 1:12 - John's research into leadership in soc...