Brian Atkins

Keeping Safe and Working Effectively For Social Workers and Health Professionals (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is an essential second edition of Personal Safety for Social Workers and Health Professionals. Personal safety is still a big concern for current social workers and health professionals and this text incorporates up-to-date legislation, documentation and upgraded practical personal safety advice in light of technical and other developments. Aimed at both practitioners and students, this book draws on previously discussed topics such as managing risks, improving safety awareness and teamwork support and brings them to the modern-day context. Specifically, this second edition includes the following.

• Interviews from current senior and first line managers in children's and adult social care and health services, front line staff and more.
• A new chapter on managing online and digital issues including managing the transition of back to work after Covid-19.

• Greater emphasis on the responsibilities of employers and their duty of care to staff.
• Further elaboration on the impairment of decision-making under stress caused by imitation and threat.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Critical Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781915713346
• Artikelnr.: 67495832

Autorenporträt

Brian Atkins BSc, CQSW, MBA has had an extensive career in social care as a practitioner, manager, trainer and independent consultant. He worked extensively in local authority child and adult protection, leaving care, residential care and youth offending, where he contributed to the national design and development of this service.

As an independent consultant he worked with organisations at a strategic level in organisational and systems development, including collaborations with senior academics on the development of the Front Door model for children's Services. His company, ETC, was included in the register of recommended providers under the government's Children Services Improvement Plan.

Brian has had a long term interest in the importance of personal safety for practitioners, and in supporting their ability to work effectively in challenging environments. He worked with government initiatives including the 'Safer Place' Task force. Within ETC he provided training in personal safety and constructive behaviour management for social care staff and managers.

He remains actively involved in the sport of judo, coaching regularly and is the chair of his local club. He is proud to be contributing to this life changing activity, and enjoys seeing the personal development of children and adults who take up the sport.