Social work futures network: creating supportive environments for students on placement and early career social workers

Creating a supportive environment for social workers is key to creating a sustainable workforce, maintaining high quality services and preventing burnout.

In this session, we’ll look at how to provide effective support for students and early career social workers.

This session is for anyone who supports social work students on placement and early career social workers.

In this session, we’ll cover:

• the challenges of providing consistent and effective support for students and early career social workers
• effective hybrid working
• creating safe spaces for support
• evidence and examples of how to create a supportive environment
• time to reflect and share your thoughts, experiences and ideas.

Our well-being manager Kate Newman will lead this session.