“A Day in the Life of a Social Worker.”

Reflect on your thoughts about the role of the Macro Social Worker.

Why is it important that a Social Work be familiar with all levels of Social Work (micro, mezzo, macro) even though they may only have an interest in working in one?

To receive full credit, you will need to post one substantial post. Each discussion post should be a minimum of 250 words or one page.

What Is Macro Social Work? https://online.yu.edu/wurzweiler/blog/understanding-macro-social-work

View the video: “A Day in the Life of a Social Worker.”

Motion Pictures Television Fund. (2016 April 16). A day in the life of a social worker.

. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xqSY3nODbg.

Please consider the following questions in your discussion post:

• Please share your thoughts after reviewing this video.
• Did you learn any new information about the role of a Social Worker?

To receive full credit, you will need to post one substantial post. Each discussion post should be a minimum of 250 words or one page.

Lesson 16 Readings and Videos

Self-Care Assessments, Exercises, and Activities:http://socialwork.buffalo.edu/resources/self-care-starter-kit/self-care-assessments-exercises.html (Links to an external site.)

Self-Care Exercises and Activities: http://socialwork.buffalo.edu/resources/self-care-starter-kit/self-care-assessments-exercises/exercises-and-activities.html (Links to an external site.)

How to Flourish in Social Work: http://socialwork.buffalo.edu/resources/self-care-starter-kit/how-to-flourish-in-social-work.html (Links to an external site.)

Ready, Set, Smart. https://www.socialworker.com/feature-articles/self-care/ready-set-smart-ticket-to-successful-social-worker-self-care-in-new-year/ (Links to an external site.)

The below link includes videos and the transcript of the videos about caseload, work balance, and child records): https://www.open.edu/openlearn/body-mind/social-care/social-work/protecting-our-children-video-extras-1-3 (Links to an external site.)

Social Worker Burnout: https://onlinemsw.fsu.edu/blog/social-worker-burnout (Links to an external site.)

FSWSocialWork. (2020 Oct 21). Social worker stress.

. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9h5DhKkoI8&t=61s.

Sample Solution

“A Day in the Life of a Social Worker”

If you have a heart for helping others, social work could be the perfect career for you. Social workers play a crucial role in assisting families in crisis, individuals with mental illness, and communities plagued by poor health, unemployment, homelessness, substance abuse, child neglect, and other complex social issues. Social work typically is typically divided into three scopes of practice: macro, mezzo, and micro. It is important that a social work be familiar with all these levels of social work. Often, mezzo-level social workers are also engaged in micro and/or macro social work. This ensures the needs and challenges of individual clients are understood and addressed in tandem with large social issues.

d found myself to be forceful which could’ve lead to staff conflict. I decided to complete the negotiation skills diagnostic again to explore different strategies and reflected on my previous supervisor role, as management skills are transferable in different environments.

4.2 Identify further improvements to professional skills and competencies:

My meeting was a success as my presentation was very clear and I was prepared with a compromising approach. This experience has highlighted areas I need to develop such as; Negotiating: Adapt to different techniques; soft and compromising not hard and forceful.
I obtain excellent communication skills however, when not prepared this was the opposite, therefore planning and preparing is very important to ensure a better delivery of objectives.

There was conflict with a member of staff, she thought all my workload would fall on her, I held a 1-2-1 meeting with her in my managers presence and cleared any misunderstanding in a calm rational way addressing her concerns, showed her how I have delegated my workload to the whole team, I changed my learning style to hers and noticed the positive difference in her reaction. My meeting was successfully lead and managed as the team understood my goal and how I intended to get there with their help. I now lead weekly staff meetings to be more involved in leadership and management activities and improve my negotiating and communication skills.

4.3 Review learning about SBM & relate to school setting:

As an aspiring SBM, this is the beginning of deepening my knowledge on behind the scenes of school business management, highlighting the importance of having an SBM in my school and areas where there is much scope for improvement such as; value for money (resources and services can be challenged regularly) identify areas where the school can save money. I have added on my PDP (Appendix 1) to conduct a monthly stock-take of stationery supplies eliminating surplus and unnecessary supplies, saving money for other resources promoting the schools vision.

I understand the importance of keeping up to date with policy changes and the necessity to adopt and adapt different learning techniques, also the positive impact of having an SBM on the Headteachers workload. Learning different analytical tools has made me notice areas of school improvement; what needs to be improved and how can it be improved. This course has helped me identify areas where I need to improve and enabled me to find ways of how I can develop myself further (Appendix 1). Also learnt how to use different learning techniques and negotiating skills and gained positive results, shadowing my manager is giving me valuable experience, I also made some suggestions she’s taken on board such as performance management should be throughout admin staff and training provided to staff to improve IT skills further for a more efficient service.

4.4 Priorities for further career development & professional learning:

My long-term career development is to secure an SBM position hopefully within my school. I need to further develop my leadership and management skills and believe this course, leading and completing my project along with the tasks I have undertaken will help me move up a tier on the NASBM standards. I also need to request to be involved in new projects assisting where possible. My PDP (Appendix 1) will help me to understand School Finance and Asset Management better. My new target (Appendix 1) will assist me in value for money, negotiation and d

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