Who’s Got You? For Social Workers and Practice Educators: Sustaining Wellbeing for Ourselves and Others

This course is open to SOCIAL WORKERS & PRACTICE EDUCATORS in the West Midlands Social Work Teaching Partnership. Please see below our Partner organisations.

This three-part training module is designed to support the wellbeing of social workers at all levels, with an optional fourth session tailored for Practice Educators (PEs). Whether you're an experienced PE, considering the role, or simply interested in the content, this session is open to you.

You will need to set aside time for the following dates in order to complete the course Tuesday the 4^th, 11^th and 18^th November 9:30am-12:30pm. An additional session is available for PEs on Tuesday the 25^th of November, 9:30am- 12:30pm.

What to expect:

Three 3-hour interactive sessions exploring self-compassion, trauma, values, and systemic challenges.

Practical strategies to sustain personal wellbeing and safe practice.

Opportunities to share experiences, build resilience, and strengthen support networks.

An optional 3-hour session for PEs focusing on wellbeing in practice education, values-led supervision, and courageous responses to challenges.

Key outcomes include:

Deepened understanding of wellbeing and its link to safe, ethical practice.

Tools to recognise and respond to stress, trauma, and imbalance.

Strategies for reflection, support, and sustaining resilience in yourself and others.

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