Lecturer in Mental Health Social Work

April 14th, 2009 by Madmutt

Last week I started half time secondment to Bournemouth University as a Lecturer in Mental Health Social Work. For the other half of my time I will continue as Forensic Lead for my CMHT as well as practice as an AMHP and BIA. I don’t know how I am going to fit it all in!

I will be teaching on various AMHP courses and be involved in BIA training. I would like to do some writing and research as well. One of the things that I would like to do early on is do some research on the work of Best Interest Assessors and how the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards are working in practice.

I also hope to have time to explore the blogosphere and twittersphere in more depth to see how social workers are using the internet in practice. I am interested in how the ‘net can be used to create a reflective space for social workers as well as a place for social workers to keep up to date with developments. If anyone as come across any good blogs, twitter feeds or websites relating to social work please feel free to get in touch.

2 Responses to “Lecturer in Mental Health Social Work”

  1. on 14 Apr 2009 at 10:33pm1 miraclesocialworker

    Hi there, got a couple of sites for you…. Apologies if you’ve already come across them but thought they are particularly relevant to what you’ve said here.

    On the subject of Best Interest Assessors - http://fightingmonsters.wordpress.com/ is a very interesting blog by someone who has apparently become an Assessor! - maybe you can pick their brains?

    This lady - http://fayesaville.wordpress.com/ - is apparently doing research into the ways that social workers use the internet. Her focus is more on what happens in times of crisis (e.g. Baby P) but I’m looking forward to seeing her results which she’s promised to publish when they’re done.

    Best of luck with everything!

  2. on 27 Jun 2009 at 5:33pm2 antiSWer

    There is a social work blog directory kind of thing at www.socialworkblogs.info

    They have dozens of social work blogs there.

    I just found your blog and am hoping by the time I catch up, you’ll be posting again, as it seems you have moved on. We need more social work bloggers out there, especially at a time like this.

    Cheers!

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