Who’s Got You? For Managers and Supervisors: Sustaining Wellbeing for Ourselves and Others

This course is open to SOCIAL WORK MANAGERS AND SUPERVISORS in the West Midlands Social Work Teaching Partnership. Please see below our Partner organisations.

Who’s Got You (Managers)? Sustaining Wellbeing in Line Management and Supervisory Practice

This four-part module is designed specifically for social workers with line management or supervisory responsibilities. It offers a safe, confidential space to explore the unique challenges of supporting others while sustaining your own wellbeing.

You will need to set aside time for the following dates in order to complete the course Wednesday the 5th, 12th and 19th and 26th of November 9:30am-12:30pm.

What to expect:

• Four 3-hour sessions focused on self-compassion, trauma, systemic pressures, and ethical leadership.

• Practical tools to promote wellbeing in yourself and those you supervise.

• Opportunities to reflect on values, accountability, and courageous responses to complex situations.

• Peer learning and exchange of skills, knowledge and experience.

Key outcomes include:

• Strengthened understanding of wellbeing and its role in safe, values-led supervision.

• Strategies to respond to imbalance, trauma, and shortfalls in practice with compassion and confidence.

• Insight into systemic factors affecting wellbeing in leadership roles.

• Enhanced ability to support others while maintaining your own resilience.

Facilitator Bio: Kath is a semi-retired social work academic and former probation chief officer, whose career spans more than four decades. In recent years she has worked as a senior lecturer in social work, delivering CPD courses to social workers and managers, including the practice educator stage 1 and 2 module at Staffordshire University. She project-managed a mentoring pilot for the West Midlands Social Work Teaching Partnership and played a leading role in a four-year EU sponsored project, (REVAMP) which provides online training materials to support healthcare professionals across Europe in responding to domestic abuse. Kath has extensive experience of investigating and reviewing fitness to practise, capability, complaints, grievances and other formal process and has undertaken inspection roles in social work and criminal justice. Kath founded and currently coordinates ECHO: Ethical, Compassionate, Humane Organisations, a leadership model designed through a small international collaboration, to provide compassionate, wise and courageous solutions to the ‘hard’ problems our institutions face.

Deadline to register: Monday 13th of October

Partner organisations:

Birmingham Children's Trust

Birmingham City Council

Birmingham City University

Cheshire East Council

City of Stoke-on-Trent Council

City of Wolverhampton Council

Coventry City Council

Coventry University

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council

Keele University

Sandwell Children's Trust

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Shropshire Council

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council

Staffordshire County Council

Staffordshire University

Telford & Wrekin Council

University of Birmingham

University of Warwick

University of Wolverhampton

University of Worcester

Walsall Council

Warwickshire County Council

Worcestershire County Council