Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) presentation at Building the Future; Shaping our Social Work Identity newly qualified social worker conference. It was held in Edinburgh on 31 May 2018

1. Newly Qualified Social Worker Conference
31 May 2018

2. Our role
We are the regulator for the social service workforce in Scotland. Our
work means the people of Scotland can count on social services being
provided by a trusted, skilled and confident workforce.
We:
 publish the national codes of practice for people working in
social services and their employers
 register people working in social services and make sure they
adhere to the SSSC Codes of Practice
 promote and regulate the learning and development of the
social service workforce
 are the national lead for workforce development and planning
for social services in Scotland.

3. MAIN HEADER GOES HERE
• Bullets and body text here.
Social service workers who …
THE SSSC LEARNING STRATEGY
VISION

4. SSSC Learning Strategy
1. Qualifications and learning resources are designed to maximise learning
that takes place directly in the practice context (situated learning).
2. Where it is not possible to deliver learning in the practice context, learning
programmes and resources focus on complex problems and their
solutions, and deliver learning in environments which simulate real world
practice contexts as closely as possible (authentic learning).
3. The development and use of digital capabilities is embedded in all
qualification structures, programmes and learning resources as
appropriate (digital and information literacy).
4. The development of digital learning skills is encouraged and promoted
throughout the workforce. The use of different types and formats of
learning is explored and developed.
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5. SSSC LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT TEAM
KEY AREAS
• QUALIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS
• PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
• WORKFORCE INTEGRATION
• POLICY IMPLEMENTATION- LEADERSHIP,
• DIGITAL LEARNING

6. SSSC RESOURCES
Continuous Learning Framework (CLF)
o Knowledge Skills & Values
o Qualifications
o Personal Capabilities …
− Managing Self
− Managing Relationships
o Organisational Capabilities
Step into Leadership
o Concept
o 4 Pathways
o Leadership Capabilities
− Vision
− Self leadership
− Motivating & inspiring
− Empowering
− Collaborating & influencing
− Creativity & innovation
o Organisational Capabilities
o Leadership Strategy
Promoting
Excellence
A framework for all health and social
services staff working with people with
dementia, their families and carers
o Partnership with NES
o Four levels
− Informed
− Skilled
− Enhanced
− Expertise
o Ambassadors
& Champions
o Making links to
NOS
o National Dementia Strategies

7. MAIN HEADER GOES HERE
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SSSC resources to support learning & development
23 Digital capabilities to support practice
and learning in social services

8. OPEN BADGES – RECOGNITION FOR YOUR
CONTINUOUS LEARNING
• Open Badges are digital recognition for otherwise
unrecognised learning.
• You can collect, manage and share them online.
• Evidence of your learning, usually a reflective account, is
attached to your Open Badge and visible to anyone you
show it to.
• Open Badges allow you to prove that you understand a
subject.
• They help with Post Registration Training and Learning
(PRTL).
• You can earn Open Badges from over 3,000 organisations
across the world who want to recognise learning in new
ways.
• You don’t need to be registered with SSSC to earn most of
our Open badges.

9. QUALIFYING
EDUCATION
NEWLY-
QUALIFIED
CONTINUOUS
DEVELOPMENT
Review of Social
Work Education
A PARTNERSHIP APPROACH
A SUPPORTED, ASSESSED YEAR
FOR NQSW
National Health and
Social Care
Workforce Plan –
Part 2
IMPROVED CAREER PATHWAYS
A FRAMEWORK IN PRACTICE FOR
SOCIAL WORKERS
REVISED FRAMEWORK AND
STANDARDS
ADMISSIONS AND SELECTION
CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL
LEARNING

10. A PARTNERSHIP APPROACH
QUALIFYING
EDUCATION
INITIAL REMIT:
• Agreed aspects of qualifying education
• Strengthened planning
• Consistency – best practice
• Quality - assurance
• Initial focus on ensuring consistent, high
quality practice learning

11. A PARTNERSHIP APPROACH
QUALIFYING
EDUCATION
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP
• COSLA
• CSWO
• HEI
• Third sector
• SSSC
• SG
• Staff/resource
• Service User/Carer engagement
REGIONAL PARTNERSHIPS (3?)

12. NEWLY-
QUALIFIED
A SUPPORTED, ASSESSED YEAR
FOR NQSW
Pilots:
• Supervision
• Protected time & caseloads
• Assessment
• Resourcing
• Survey of Sector Views on a supported,
assessed year: 84% support/strongly
support.
• Survey of current support for NQSW

13. A PARTNERSHIP APPROACH
QUALIFYING
EDUCATION
Existing post qualifying awards
MHO, practice learning, cswo,
Research underway to map informal and
formal pq learning for social workers
New continuous professional learning
standard
New framework for professional practice
Continuous
Development

14. 6. Career pathways
• Develop proposals for enhanced career pathways
within social services
• Improve entry routes into the sector
• Explore how career pathways across health and
social care can be further developed.
• Consider implications for regulation of the
workforce
SSSC lead
– Enhanced map of pathways
– Barriers/enablers/what works
– Priorities – sector views
– Pilots on new/strengthened routes

15. 7. Training and education
• Develop training and education proposals to
enable more flexible workforce
• Develop a Professional Framework for Practice in
social care and social work
– Link framework to the Scottish Credit Qualifications
Framework
– Link framework to recent review of Social Work
Education
– Undergraduate to Advanced practice
SSSC lead
– Current landscape
– Sector priorities