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For any social care manager,
we'll always speak about
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how staff are our greatest strengths
and I think for us
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Passion 4 Practice really looks
at building on that strength.
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Staff are out there every day working
with families and they can
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help us develop our service in a way
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through us co-producing the service with them
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that actually as a management group we can't do in isolation.
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So, Passion 4 Practice was about
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creating the right environment for
our practitioners to be the
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social workers that they want to be
and to be the social workers that
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families need them to be.
As a member of staff, I've been
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in the local authority for six years now,
and I really feel listened to.
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I feel like when we invest our time
in these Passion 4 Practice sessions
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as practitioners if things aren't going
well for us or need to be changed
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then we really are laying that
on the table, we're having that
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listened to, and that will always
promote the outcomes for our service users.
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Passion 4 Practice has allowed staff
to feel included,
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included in the process,
included in decision-making
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and included in the development
of the service.
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Not only has that improved
staff's well-being, it's also
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made staff I feel want to come to
Merthyr to work and I do think
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it is a direct result of Passion 4 Practice.
I really do.
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It arose out of a need to
consult with staff to get
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their views about how we could
improve practice, and it is all driven
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by the practitioners,
and the Passion 4 Practice name
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came from a sense that there was
a real passion for improvement
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in Merthyr.
So, my message for anybody who
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wanted to roll out something like
Passion 4 Practice would be
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completely go for it.
It's so transformational
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and it completely is a bottom-up
approach to how we work our service.