The Assessed & Supported Year in Employment (ASYE)

The Assessed & Supported Year in Employment (ASYE)

Templates

September 2012

These Templates accompany the Southend Borough Council Policy on ASYE and Handbook and should be used in conjunction with them. They have been designed for use by Newly Qualified Social Workers undertaking the ASYE, their Assessors and all professionals involved with ASYE.

Enquiries related to these templates can be directed to:
Robert Malliff
Learning & Development Manager
T. 01702 534941
E.
Contents

• ASYE Registration Form
• Learning Agreement
• Professional Development Plan
• The PCF Criteria – Monitoring Form
• Review Meeting Proforma
• Final Assessment Report – Successful completion of ASYE
• Direct Observation Template
• Supervision Record Form
• Application for Funding
• Tracker Document

• Interim Review
• Final Assessment Report – Failure of ASYE

ASYE Registration Form

Please complete and return to:
Children’s Workforce Team, 8th Floor, Civic Centre, SS2 6ER
Email:

Please note: all information below is required for registration for funding from DfE/Skills for Care.

Forename
Surname
Address
Postcode
Email
Work phone no.
Job title
HCPC registration number
Date qualified
Qualification / □ BA / □ MA
University trained at
SBC employment start date
SBC Team
ASYE Assessor
Job title of ASYE Assessor
Email for ASYE Assessor
Working hours / □ Full Time / □ Part Time (please state hours):
Gender (please tick) / □ Male / □ Female
Ethnicity (please tick) / □ White / □ Mixed race
□ Asian / □ Asian British
□ Black / □ Black British
□ Chinese / □ Chinese British
□ Other / □ Prefer not to say
Disability (please tick) / □ Yes (If yes, please give details):
□ No
□ Prefer not to say
Date of birth
Country of birth

Learning Agreement

To be signed by the NQSW, ASYE Assessor, Team Manager and ASYE Manager and retained within the NQSW’s portfolio and filed by the ASYE Assessor.

Team Manager name:
I have read and understand the role and responsibilities of the employing team as set out in the SBC Policy and Guidance on ASYE and commit to ensuring that the required support and assessment are provided to the NQSW.
Team Manager signature: / Date:
NQSW name:
I have read and understand my role and responsibilities as set out in the SBC Policy and Guidance on ASYE and commit to fulfilling them.
NQSW signature: / Date:
ASYE Assessor name:
I have read and understand the role and responsibilities of the ASYE Assessor as delegated member of the employing team, as set out in the SBC Policy and Guidance on ASYE, and commit to ensuring that the required support and assessment are provided to the NQSW.
ASYE Assessor signature: / Date:
ASYE Manager name:
I have read and understand the role and responsibilities of the ASYE Manager, as set out in the SBC Policy and Guidance on ASYE, and commit to ensuring that the required support is provided to the NQSW and ASYE Assessor.
ASYE Manager signature: / Date:
Professional Development Plan /

To be completed by the NQSW andASYE Assessorand retained within the NQSW’s portfolio and filed by the ASYE Assessor.

NQSW: / ASYE Assessor:
Review (please mark): / □ 3 mths / □ 6 mths / □ 9 mths / □ Final
Date of Review: / Date of next Review:
My key objectives are: / Links to the PCF Domains/Outcomes
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Review (please mark): / □ 3 mths / □ 6 mths / □ 9 mths / □ Final

In order to achieve my objectives, I plan the actions and activities set out below:

What? / How? / Links to PCF Outcomes / When will you do this by? / Actual date completed
Area of need / skill gap identified / Development activity or action

Professional Capabilities Framework – ASYE Criteria

To be used to inform ongoing assessment of the NQSW and to refer to in Review Meetings

1. Professionalism / Links to SoPS / Outcomes / Where evidenced
1.1 Be able to meet the requirements of the professional regulator / 2.10 / Promote anti-oppressive practice by ensuring service users and carers are aware of the social work role in context / Observation
Supervision
Reflective accounts in supervision
Service User feedback
1.2 Be able to explain the role of the social worker in a range of contexts, and uphold the reputation of the profession / 3, 3.1, 3.4, 8.9 / Engaging in formal and informal supervision. Attending and engaging in team meetings. / Planned Diarised Supervision Dates
Evidence of supervision records
2 written accounts from team member’s evidencing seeking of support and advice from colleagues
1.3 Make pro active use of supervision to reflect critically on practice, explore different approaches to your work, support your development across the nine capabilities and understand the boundaries of professional accountability, seeking support and advice appropriately. / 2.10, 11.2, 12.1, 15.2 / Response to crisis such as section 47 enquiries, procedures, protocols and boundaries
Promote positive outcomes for service users (e.g. keeping service users safe) by responding to safeguarding adult concerns and undertake same day response activities using crisis intervention models. / Evidence of case load (Complexity) on Care First and report manager. Evidence of having brought RCPC or Core Group Meeting forward to address imminent issues. Attending to crisis work e.g. Section 47.
Observation and joint work between supervisors and NQSWs in a range of social work tasks
1.4 Demonstrate workload management skills and develop the ability to prioritise / 1.2 / Response to crisis such as section 47 enquiries, procedures, protocols and boundaries
Critical reflection in supervision and group supervision / Case recordings, Police Protection and Immediate legal proceedings
Supervision records
1.5 Recognise and balance your own personal/professional boundaries in response to changing and more complex contexts / 3.4, 14.8 / Promote social work as a professional occupation and ensure that service users and carers have confidence in the service provided. / Feedback from service users, colleagues and other agencies
1.6 Demonstrate professionalism in terms of presentation, demeanour, reliability, honesty and respectfulness / 2.9, 9.1, 9.10 / Attending training and reading current research and completing PDP
Ensuring that knowledge, skills and practice is contemporaneous, relevant and applicable for the social work role. / Supervision records, records of training undertaken. Completing and reviewing of Personal development plan objectives.
Supervision
Practice meetings with other team members
Learning journal
1.7 Identify your learning needs, including contribution to, completion and updating of ASYE personal development plan, assume responsibility for improving your practice through appropriate professional development / 3.3 / Ensuring that you are healthy at home and at work. Addressing issues pertaining to stress
Maintaining resilience and emotional well being in a context of uncertainty and change / Supervision
Time management strategies
Organisational skills
Observation
1.8 Develop ways to promote wellbeing at work, identifying strategies to protect and promote your own well being / 3.2, 3.5 / Understanding underpinning legislation Working with children and families). Clear understanding of SET procedures and policies and implementing these as well as good practice
Ensuring that as a workforce, there is the appropriate skills and knowledge to report, investigate and minimise the risks of abuse, neglect and harm across adult and children services. / Team meeting minutes, Contributions in LAC Reviews, RCPC contributions, Core Group Meetings, Supervision records, Recommended care plans in Social Work reports
Safeguarding vulnerable adult meetings
Observation
Supervision
Referrals to other agencies
1.9 Identify and implement strategies for responding appropriately to concerns about practice or procedures, seeking guidance if required. / 2, 2.4, 6.2 / Promote anti-oppressive practice by ensuring service users and carers are aware of the social work role in context / Observation
Supervision
Reflective accounts in supervision
Service User feedback
2. Values & Ethics / Links to SoPS / Outcomes / Where evidenced
2.1 Understand and apply the profession’s ethical principles and legislation, taking account of these in reaching decisions. / 2, 2.1, 7.1, 7.2, 13.4 / Support effective decision making in context with the relevant legal frameworks to promote independence, safety and manage risks appropriately / Observations
Supervision
Practice Meetings
Colleague feedback
2.2 Recognise, and manage the impact of your own values on professional practice / 2.5, 5.3 / Promote ‘best practice’ in social work through critical reflective practice / Supervision
2.3 Recognise and manage conflicting values and ethical dilemmas to arrive at principled decisions / 1, 2, 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 2.7, 2.8, 5.3, 7, 8.3, 13.4 / Working with conflicting issues (threatening parents/carers, non-engaging parents/carers, difficult teenagers of children)
Promoting effective decision making in assessment, care planning and reviews in contexts of conflict with service users and carers / Social Work reports, Case recordings
Supervision records
Mental Capacity Act Assessments
Observation
Safeguarding meetings
2.4 Demonstrate respectful partnership work with service users and carers, eliciting and respecting their needs and views, and promoting their participation in decision-making wherever possible / 2.7, 2.8, 8.3, 9.2, 9.6 / Promoting anti-oppressive and anti-discriminatory practice through inclusion and participation / Mental Capacity Act Assessments
Safeguarding investigations
Observation
Supervision
2.5 Recognise and promote individuals rights to autonomy and self-determination / 7, 8.3, 9.3, 9.4 / Promoting self determination and autonomy / Assessments and Reviews
Mental Capacity Act Assessments
2.6 Promote and protect the privacy of individuals within and outside their families and networks, recognising the requirements of professional accountability and information sharing / 7, 7.1, 7.2 / Ensure that service users and their rights to privacy are at the heart of social work intervention whilst balancing the need for information sharing / Assessments
Supervision
Observation
Information sharing with other agencies
3. Diversity / Links to SoPS / Outcomes / Where evidenced
3.1 Identify and take account of the significance of diversity on the lives of people and show application of this understanding in your practice / 5, 5.2, 5.4, 6 / Cultural competence, non-discriminatory and anti-oppressive approaches, use of e.g. NYAS, BATIAS to address differences / Case recordings, referrals to other agencies
3.2 Recognise oppression and discrimination by individuals or organisations and implement appropriate strategies to challenge / 5.1, 5.4 / Use of NYAS, BATIAS to address differences, recommending use of solicitors
Promoting anti racist and anti-discriminatory practice / Case recordings and referrals
Supervision
Observation
Colleague and service user feedback
3.3 Identify the impact of the power invested in your role, recognising the potential effect on the intervention, and adjust your practice accordingly. / 2.8, 2.9 / Communicating to match service user levels and clarifying to service users the need for identified intervention/s whilst upholding their human rights as necessary.
Promoting anti-oppressive practice / Case Recordings, Observations, reports
Supervision
Learning journal
Observations
4. Rights, Justice & Economic Wellbeing / Links to SoPS / Outcomes / Where evidenced
4.1 Begin to integrate principles of and entitlements to social justice, social inclusion and equality in your analysis and practice, by identifying factors that contribute to inequality and exclusion, and supporting people to pursue options to enhance their well being / 5, 6.1, 13.4 / Ensuring that service users and carers are entitled to benefits, assessments etc. that are legally required / Assessment outcomes
4.2 Address oppression and discrimination applying the law to protect and advance people’s rights, recognising how legislation can constrain or advance these rights / 2.1, 2.2, 5, 5.1, 6, 8.7, 13.4 / Signposting service users to relevant agencies for support or advocating on behalf of the service user (Benefits, Education, health and safety issues).
Court intervention work
Balancing service users rights with statutory requirements which may infringe on the rights of service users and others / Referrals to relevant agencies
Witness statements and Care Plans (Court)
Supervision
Observation
4.3 Apply in practice principles of human, civil rights and equalities legislation, and manage competing rights, differing needs and perspectives / 2.1, 2.2, 2.7 / Ensure that professional social work practice is upheld at all times in line with the legal context / Assessments
Care plans
Safeguarding care plans
Mental Capacity Act Assessments
4.4 Recognise the impact of poverty and social exclusion and promote enhanced economic status through access to education, work, housing, health services and welfare benefit / 5, 5.1 / Promoting service users rights to access the appropriate services to maintain economic and social well being / Referrals to day care, health services, education, advocacy services and welfare benefits
4.5 Empower service users through recognising their rights and enable access where appropriate to independent advocacy / 8.7, 9.4, 13.4 / Advocating on behalf of service users to promote their well being and independence / Advocacy referrals
Supervision
Observation
5. Knowledge / Links to SoPS / Outcomes / Where evidenced
5.1 Consolidate and develop the knowledge gained in your initial training, and demonstrate comprehensive understanding and use of knowledge related to your specialist area of practice, including critical awareness of current issues and new evidence based practice research / 5.4, 9.8, 9.9, 12, 12.2, 12.3, 13, 13.4, 14.5 / Reflective presentation/ discussion with Assessor to evidence personal development from student to practitioner
To ensure that decision making is evidence based and knowledge is relevant and contemporaneous / 3rd year professional development plan.
Evidence of achieved from the above plans in first year of practice and evidence of identified further development in the first year
Supervision
Observation
Practice Meetings e.g. presentation work and group discussion on a specialist area of practice.
5.2 Demonstrate knowledge and application of appropriate legal and policy frameworks and guidance that inform and mandate social work practice. Apply legal reasoning, using professional legal expertise and advice appropriately, recognising where scope for professional judgement exists. / 5.4, 9.10, 12, 12.3, 13 / Discussions with assessor
Signposting of service users to solicitors. Supervision.
Promote professional social work practice, taking into consideration the statutory duties and legal powers in context with professional judgement;
Ensure service users are protected from abuse and harm using the appropriate legal and policy frameworks / Observations in practice, Case recording s and reports
DPM referrals, Case Recordings and reports
Court Reports
Observation
Supervision
Assessments
5.3 Demonstrate and apply to practice a working knowledge of human growth and development throughout the life course / 13.4 / Increased awareness and understanding of human growth and development, promoting outcomes for service users at different stages of the life course / Supervision
Assessments and Reviews
Practice Meetings
5.4 Recognise the short and long term impact of psychological, socio-economic, environmental and physiological factors on peoples lives, taking into account age and development, and how this informs practice / 13.4 / Development of social work ‘best practice’ that recognises the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that affect the lives of service users, carers and families. / Supervision
Observation
Practice Meetings e.g. presentation work and group discussion on a specialist area of practice e.g. age and development, environment
5.5 Recognise how systemic approaches can be used to understand the person-in-the-environment and inform your practice / 5.4, 13.4 / Improvement of knowledge regarding systemic practice and when and how this can be used in context with people’s lives / Supervision
Assessments and Reviews
Practice Meetings
5.6 Acknowledge the centrality of relationships for people and the key concepts of attachment, separation, loss, change and resilience / 9.10, 13.4 / Support and empathise with service users, their carers and families with issues of loss, separation and change. / Supervision
Assessments and Reviews
Practice Meetings
Observation
5.7 Understand forms of harm and their impact on people, and the implications for practice, drawing on concepts of strength, resilience, vulnerability, risk and resistance, and apply to practice / 1.5, 9.8, 9.9, 13.4 / Reduce the risk of abuse, neglect and harm to vulnerable adults/children and support strengths as well as identifying risk. / Supervision
Assessments and Reviews
Practice Meetings
Observation
5.8 Demonstrate a critical knowledge of the range of theories and models for social work intervention with individuals, families, groups and communities, and the methods derived from them / 13, 13.4 / Positive outcomes for service users and families who experience social workers who can apply models and methods at an appropriate time / Supervision
Assessments and Reviews
Practice Meetings
Observation
5.9 Demonstrate a critical understanding of social welfare policy, its evolution, implementation and impact on people, social work, other professions, and inter-agency working / 13.4 / Improved awareness for social workers in understanding the policy context to practice; particularly relevant to inter-agency practice / Supervision
Assessments and Reviews
Practice Meetings
Observation
5.10 Recognise the contribution, and begin to make use, of research to inform practice / 12, 14.6 / Improved decision making and outcomes for service users through the use of relevant and recent research to inform practice / Supervision
Assessments and Reviews
Practice Meetings
Observation
5.11 Demonstrate a critical understanding of research methods / 14.5 / For social workers to understand which research methods to use, evaluate and when / Supervision
5.12 Value and take account of the expertise of service users, carers and professionals / 2.7, 8.10, 9.4, 9.8, 13.4 / Empowerment of service users and carers and promoting notions of anti-oppressive practice / Supervision
Assessments and Reviews
6. Critical Reflection & Analysis / Links to SoPS / Outcomes / Where evidenced
6.1 Show creativity in tackling and solving problems, by considering a range of options to solve dilemmas / 4.2, 11.2 / Effective contributions in various fora
Effective care planning
To promote positive outcomes for service users, carers and their families through the use of effective problem solving / Analysis and proposed actions in Social Work reports. IRO reports.
Options explored in conference/review reports or care planning documents
Supervision
Action Learning Sets
Group Supervision
Assessments & Care Plans
Reviews
6.2 Use reflective practice techniques to evaluate and critically analyse information, gained from a variety of sources, to construct and test hypotheses and make explicit evidence-informed decisions / 4, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 11, 11.1, 11.2, 14, 14.1 / Evidence of effective analysis in supervision and assessments
Ensure that a wide variety of information is gathered and analysed effectively to ensure decision making is robust and involves critical reflection ‘on action’ and ‘in action’ / Core assessments