Adult Social Care
Practice Guide
Update, 13 December Care Quality Commission (CQC) has recently shared some initial high-level feedback from the November inspection. What shone through was that the feedback felt largely positive. It did not uncover any new, significant challenges. ASC Senior Managers feel the areas that the serv…
CQC has published a final report of Camden Adult Social Care, following CQC Inspection last November. Below is a message from Jess McGregor, Executive Director, Adults and Health. Today we’ve received our report from our CQC inspection – and I’m so proud and delighted to share with you that CQC h…
Supporting you in your role Information and an overview of what the ASYE program is for newly qualified social workers. This section provides information about Social Work Education and the Assessed and Supported Year in employment (ASYE) 12 month programme for newly qualified social workers (NQSW…
The Assessed and Supported Year in employment (ASYE) is a 12 month programme for newly qualified social workers (NQSW) to support them to transition from qualifying education to professional social work in their first year of employment. In Camden all newly qualified social workers must undertake…
Social workers with at least two years’ qualifying experience can train to be a practice educator and support social work students and other learners. Information is sent out about this every year around June as the courses starts in the autumn. The Practice Education Course Briefing provides det…
The ASYE is co-ordinated and supported by the Professional Social Work Educator. The Professional Social Work Educator (PSWE) supports the development of professional practice and helps to ensure social workers are connected to core social work values. Our focus is to support social workers to de…
You may also find the following resources useful: ASYE portfolio templates ASYE presentation Skills for Care Newly qualified social workers have access to Research in Practice to support their learning.
Supporting you in your role Information for new starters and staff in Camden about the ASC Workforce Strategy. This section provides a comprehensive workforce strategy for Adult Social Care. This strategy, and our action plan, sets out our vision for our social care workforce across Camden. It out…
Implementation of the ASC Workforce Strategy Within this section of the practice guide you will find information about the ASC Workforce Strategy and our action plan, that sets out our vision for our social care workforce across Camden. We are currently doing work to ensure our workforce is repr…