Newly-Qualified Social Workers

A Practice Guide to the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment
4. Revised Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5297-7673-7
Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice Series

The first year of practice can be a particularly challenging time for NQSWs. The Assessed and Supported year in Employment (ASYE) is primarily concerned with supporting NQSWs to establish you on the first rung of your professional career. The expectation is that knowledge and skills gained in qualifying education are consolidated and that new knowledge and skills are developed in practice relevant to the employment setting.

Focusing in on the transition from study to work and what professionalism looks like in practice, this book has been designed to help you get a true sense of what it’s like to work within today’s health care system. It’s been written in conjunction with Social Work Managers, Service Users and NQSWs themselves to provide a detailed and balanced assessment of what it’s like to work as a social worker and tests you on key areas you’ll be assessed on throughout the ASYE.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morris, Andrew

Parker, Jonathan

Gray, Ivan Lincoln

Lee, Sally

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: ‘Give everyman thy ear, but few thy voice’ - Jonathan Parker, Ivan Gray, Andrew Morris & Sally Lee
Chapter 2: Newly Qualified Social Workers around the UK - Scott Grant, Jude Badmington-Fowler, Mandy Cowden, Catherine Maguire & Jonathan Parker
Chapter 3: From social work student to newly qualified social worker - Barry Fearnley
Chapter 4: Managing CPD and critical thinking throughout your assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) - Andrew Morris
Chapter 5: Managing your own induction, probation and supervision - Ivan Gray
Chapter 6: Looking to our Future - Building your community of practice and contributing to service quality and development - Ivan Gray & Jonathan Parker
Chapter 7: Research and NQSW: Developing yourself as research minded and critically reflective practitioner - Richard Williams & Louise Oliver
Chapter 8: The NQSW Perspective - Andrew Morris
Chapter 9: Workforce Development and Training Perspectives - Jonathan Parker
Chapter 10: Professionalism in Social Work: Contributing to future quality and development as a Newly Qualified Social Worker - Jonathan Parker
Chapter 11: The Monster Under the Bed: Safeguarding Ourselves and Others from Mental Health Shame - Andrew Morris

Über Autor(innen)

Parker, Jonathan
Prof. Dr. Jonathan Parker of the Health Sciences University, UK, is Professor Emeritus at Bournemouth University, Professor Emeritus at the University of Stavanger, Norway, Visiting Professor at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Doctoral programme team member at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. He was one of the founders and director of the Family Assessment and Support Unit, a placement agency attached to the University of Hull and Head of the Department of Social Work. He was Chair of the Association of Teachers in Social Work Education until 2005, Vice Chair of the UK higher education representative body, the Joint University Council for Social Work Education from 2005- 2010, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has published widely (over 200 scholarly papers and chapters and 43 books): on disadvantage, marginalisation and violence, Southeast Asia, social work and welfare education internationally. He is author of the best-selling book Social Work Practice (Sage, 2025) and series editor for the highly successful Transforming Social Work Practice series (Sage).

Lee, Sally
Sally is lecturer and Programme Lead for social work at Bournemouth University. She is also undertaking research on a variety of projects including mental capacity, adult safeguarding and sexual well-being. She completed her doctoral research in 2016 exploring social work practice, physical disability and sexual well-being. This work continues and she is currently developing learning materials (including a short film) around sexual well-being for social care and health practitioners. Sally brings to her academic role extensive social work practice experience built up during more than 25 years of working in diverse practice settings and services. Her research interests focus on often marginalised populations including investigating the experience of financial abuse and the detriment to individuals and society beyond financial loss.