Download or read book How to Become a Better Manager in Social Work and Social Care written by Trish Hafford-Letchfield and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social work and social care managers often find themselves in management positions without having had any formal management training, yet skills and knowledge specific to social care settings are essential for effective practice. This book offers a researched and practical guide to the fundamental skills and knowledge that a manager needs, underpinned by the values and ethics that are inherent to social work and social care. Core skills covered include time management, recruitment, managing meetings, working in partnership with service users, negotiation and conflict management, and mentoring and coaching. A self-improvement feedback assessment is included, and the book features learning activities, practical tools, case examples, summaries and action checklists. This must-have handbook will help social work and social care managers and students to understand and accomplish the core skills needed for excellent management practice.
Download or read book Successful Project Management in Social Work and Social Care written by Gary Spolander and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managers in social work and social care contexts are required to manage a wide range of projects: long-term and short-term, on large and small scales, in partnership with other agencies, and covering a broad range of issues and contexts. Management of these projects requires specific expertise, and this book sets out what these core skills are and how they can be achieved. Topics such as managing resources, assessing risks, and measuring outcomes are covered, as well as how to start and end a project. The authors acknowledge the values and ethics inherent to care environments, as well as the business skills necessary for good management. Detailed case studies demonstrate the ideas in action, and reflective activities, practical tools and action checklists are included throughout. This practical handbook provides a clear and comprehensive guide to how to be an excellent project manager, and is a must-read for all social work and social care managers and post-qualifying social work and social care students.
Download or read book Management Skills in Social Care written by John Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992, this volume responds to the importance of management has been increasingly recognized in the personal social services but this recognition has materialized more slowly in some social day care settings. Staff in these settings who move on to management can face particular difficulties in adapting to their new role, especially if they have been promoted on the basis of their competence as practitioners. Newly-promoted managers in social care settings are all too often ill-equipped for the problems and possibilities offered by their move to a management position. As a practice-based handbook, Management Skills in Social Care fills this gap by examining key areas of management expertise such as: managing self; individuals; groups; resources; change; and so on. Above all, this book is concerned with maximising the contribution of management in day-to-day social care practice.
Download or read book Inclusive Leadership in Social Work and Social Care written by Trish Hafford-Letchfield and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical and reflexive book looks closely at the pivotal but demanding role that leadership and management play in promoting social work and social care. Focusing on the value that can be created when the relationships between the people delivering and those using public services are effective, the contributors explore the conditions required to nourish confidence, inspire self-esteem, unlock potential, and balance inequality. Aimed at both new and experienced social managers, it draws on a range of disciplines not typically found in social work and social-care studies, encouraging readers to broaden their examination of leadership.
Download or read book Management and Leadership in Social Work written by Todd W. Rofuth and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of expert guidance on leadership and management, this unique book is geared specifically to the needs of social work administrators, educators and practitioners in both academic and agency settings. The contents are fully comprehensive and encompass both theoretical approaches to management and leadership plus a wide variety of practical strategies that can be directly applied to practice. Topics blend the art and science of leadership and management and incorporate all competencies and practice behaviors required by Network for Social Work Management (NSWM) and Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). These include understanding different leadership styles, practicing self-reflection and self-care, methods to motivate teams and mentor others, developing strategic plans, understanding financial management, marketing, fundraising, human resources, program evaluations, community collaboration, and much more. Additionally, the text illustrates the parallels/disparities between social work practice skills, knowledge, and ethics, and those of leadership and management. Instructor resources include PowerPoints for each chapter, lecture notes, and sample syllabi. Print version of the book includes free, searchable, digital access to entire contents. KEY FEATURES: Geared specifically to the needs of social work educators and practitioners in academic and agency settings Incorporates all competencies and practice behaviors required by NSWM and CSWE as cited in each chapter Discusses the differences between management and leadership along with best practices Fosters knowledge and skill development through the use of competency-based real-life cases, self-reflective exercises, and thought-provoking questions Offers examples of how to motivate and work with different age cohorts, community groups, and other stakeholders Addresses the challenges of financial management and fundraising Exhibits specific problem-solving and decision-making strategies
Download or read book Social Work Case Management written by Betsy Vourlekis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new practice text provides a series of readings focusing on case management in a number of fields and in a variety of settings with different client populations. Each chapter examines a major component of case management practice by presenting information about an innovative program from a different location around the country. In conjunction, these readings provide a road map to social work case management.In addition to offering up-to-date practice approaches and examining the functions and skills of case management in depth, the authors provide the policy information needed for putting this traditional form of social work practice into today's service delivery context.
Download or read book Developing Leadership Skills for Health and Social Care Professionals written by Annie Phillips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to develop effective supervisory, people and management skills? If you work in health or social care as a manager or clinician, deal with people on a daily basis, and need these dealings to be thoughtful, effective and stress free, this is the book for you. It teaches you how to understand and alleviate barriers to effective communication, manage the stresses and conflicts, and develop the effective clinical, people and management skills you need to navigate successfully through a career in healthcare. It challenges the reader to re-construct their approach to leadership and encourages the development of interpersonal, observational and caring skills. This highly practical guide, and its companion volume Developing Assertiveness Skills for Health and Social Care Professionals are essential tools for all health and social care professionals, particularly those in acute medicine, primary care and the community. It is also highly recommended to those without a management role wanting to understand how to develop their relationships with their colleagues and managers.
Download or read book Social Care Management Strategy and Business Planning written by Trish Hafford-Letchfield and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Care Management, Strategy and Business Planning is a comprehensive guide to strategic social care management, covering all the knowledge and skills that managers in the 21st century must have, and showing how to make theory a practical reality. The book aims to make business planning a more accessible and user-friendly process, offering practical advice on how to tackle the everyday tasks which good social care management should involve. Topics covered include strategic planning, business development, commissioning and contracting, project management, decision-making, risk, and evaluation techniques. The book also acknowledges the challenges of working collaboratively within a complex legislative and policy framework and juggling different aspects of the management tasks whilst retaining professional identities and ethics. Also included are practical examples and lively tips and comments from practising managers on their experiences in different areas of business planning. This book will be essential reading for anyone involved in managing or leading practice either in the front line or at a more strategic level. It will be useful to post-qualifying social work students and is particularly valuable to anyone following a management training programme.
Download or read book Social Work Case Management written by Michael J. Holosko and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Work Case Management: Case Studies From the Frontlines by Michael J. Holosko is an innovative book that equips readers with the knowledge and skills they need to be effective case management practitioners in a variety of health and human service organizations. A must-read for students and professionals in social work, this important work introduces a unique Task-Centered Case Management Model built around the unifying principles of the profession—person-in-environment, strengths-based work, and ecological perspective. Over twenty case studies by case managers and professionals offer innovative practice insights, illustrating the practice roles and responsibilities of today's case managers and the realities of conducting case management in today’s growing, exciting, and challenging field.
Download or read book Management Skills written by W.T. Singleton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: w. T. SINGLETON THE CONCEPT This is the third in a series of books devoted to the study of real skills. The topic is management. A book on social skills is still to come and it might seem that the sequence should be reversed on the grounds that social skills are obviously one element in management skills but it is appropriate to deal with management first on the criterion of increasing complexity. Management skills are easier to understand than general social skills. This is because the defining characteristic of a skill is a purpose. The purpose of organizations in which managers operate and the tasks in which they are engaged are not easy to define but they are certainly less obscure than are the more general purposes of communities and people interactions in which the complete range of social skills is practised. Skills, like purposes, are inherently to do with people. It follows that the 'skills view' of management will be as a people-based activity. Individuals carry out management tasks and these tasks always involve other individuals, of whom some are subordinate, some superior and some equivalent within the hierarchy of the particular management organization. The concept of a hierarchy is as central to management as it is to skills. The alternative to hier archy is anarchy. Management is not solely concerned with people.
Download or read book Umiker s Management Skills for the New Health Care Supervisor written by Charles McConnell and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Todays healthcare supervisors are continuously faced with smaller budgets, fewer workers, greater responsibilities and time pressure. The all new Fifth Edition of Umikers Management Skills for the New Health Care Supervisor continues to provide valuable information for future health care managers and supervisors who must address these challenges daily. Written primarily for those who have little to no management training, Umikers offers practical suggestions for improving effectiveness both as a supervisor and as an organization. Ideal for students in junior undergraduate, community, and career college programs, author Charles McConnell maintains Bill Umikers clear, jargon-free writing style.
Download or read book Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation's Health was released in September 2019, before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in March 2020. Improving social conditions remains critical to improving health outcomes, and integrating social care into health care delivery is more relevant than ever in the context of the pandemic and increased strains placed on the U.S. health care system. The report and its related products ultimately aim to help improve health and health equity, during COVID-19 and beyond. The consistent and compelling evidence on how social determinants shape health has led to a growing recognition throughout the health care sector that improving health and health equity is likely to depend â€" at least in part â€" on mitigating adverse social determinants. This recognition has been bolstered by a shift in the health care sector towards value-based payment, which incentivizes improved health outcomes for persons and populations rather than service delivery alone. The combined result of these changes has been a growing emphasis on health care systems addressing patients' social risk factors and social needs with the aim of improving health outcomes. This may involve health care systems linking individual patients with government and community social services, but important questions need to be answered about when and how health care systems should integrate social care into their practices and what kinds of infrastructure are required to facilitate such activities. Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation's Health examines the potential for integrating services addressing social needs and the social determinants of health into the delivery of health care to achieve better health outcomes. This report assesses approaches to social care integration currently being taken by health care providers and systems, and new or emerging approaches and opportunities; current roles in such integration by different disciplines and organizations, and new or emerging roles and types of providers; and current and emerging efforts to design health care systems to improve the nation's health and reduce health inequities.
Download or read book Case Management in Social Work written by Julius R. Ballew and published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1996 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview -- Engaging -- Assessing resources -- Assessing barriers -- Goal planning -- Assessing external resources -- Assessing internal resources -- Coordination -- Disengaging -- Providing agency support.
Download or read book Leadership and Management in Social Care written by Trish Hafford-Letchfield and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ′This is a timely and well crafted text which is to be commended, with strong chapters from knowledgeable and committed authors. A stimulating read and one which will be of considerable use to those with responsibility for leading and managing learning in social care and social work′ - Keith Popple, Professor of Social Work, London South Bank University ′This is a welcome and timely book, which forecasts the growing need for workplace learning. I will be one of the first people to buy it′ - Jan Fook, Professor of Social Work, University of Southampton This core textbook provides an authoritative overview of the leadership and management of learning in social care education and practice. Written in response to recent policy and continuing professional development frameworks, the book provides the underpinning knowledge for candidates following post-qualifying awards for social work in leadership, management and practice education Key features include: " reference to the relevant post-qualifying standards in social work at Higher Specialist and Advanced levels " an interprofessional approach " case studies, activities and points for reflection. Leadership and Management in Social Care will equip readers with the relevant knowledge and skills they need to improve the quality of social care services and their delivery. With an emphasis upon continuing professional development it will become essential reading for students following social work and social care qualifications for continuing professional development. Social care practitioners responsible for staff development and interested in progressing to management roles will also find the book invaluable. Trish Hafford-Letchfield is a senior lecturer at London South Bank University for social work, higher education and leadership and management courses. Kate Leonard is a senior lecturer at LSBU and freelance trainer, assessor and mentor. Nasa Begum has been Principal Advisor for Participation at SCIE since 2003 and is a researcher. Neil Chick is Organisational Learning Manager for a housing association and coach mentor.
Download or read book Life Management Skills IV written by Kathy L. Korb-Khalsa and published by Wellness Reproductions & Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Activities of daily living - Combatting stigma - Communication - Coping with serious mental illness - Home management - Humor - Job readiness - Journalizing - Leisure - Parenting - Relationships - Responsibility - Self-esteem - Sexual health - Social skills - Stress management - Suicide issues - Values.
Download or read book Successful Project Management in Social Work and Social Care written by Gary Spolander and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical guide to the essential core skills of project management in social work and social care. The authors set out the tools, steps and stages necessary for successful project management. Detailed case studies demonstrate the ideas in action, and reflective activities, practical tools and action checklists are included throughout.
Download or read book Effective Leadership Management and Supervision in Health and Social Care written by Richard Field and published by Learning Matters. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a practical introduction to the areas of leadership, management and supervision for line managers, supervisors and senior practitioners working in health and social care settings. The authors explore different aspects of leadership and management, including personal effectiveness, supervision, strategic thinking, commissioning, planning and budgeting and leading successful teams. This third edition also includes new chapters on leading services and care for older people, leading the workforce for health and social care services for older people and developing collaborative skills. There is also increased coverage of healthcare leadership and asset-based commissioning.
