Tilly Baker Email & Phone Number

I am currently working in a locum role as Advanced Social Work Practitioner on a short term contract within Herefordshire County. I wanted to expand my expertise to different areas of practice (including mental health, learning disabilities and autism) leaving my leadership role to enhance my experience within front line social work.Previously, I was leading a small hub of workers within the Gloucestershire locality, comprising of Social Workers, Social Work Apprentices and Social Care Assessors. I succeeded my role of Senior Social Worker to become a lead within the locality of which I have been in position for over 2 years now and thoroughly enjoy this role. Leadership is a vital and important role in the social work field, especially in such unprecedented times as recently. My strengths lie in communication, peer and group mentoring, working well under pressure and providing excellent resources, practice guidance, praising success and identifying performance issues and development needs. I strongly advocate social work values and promote autonomy amongst my supervisees to develop their own professional styles. I enjoy strategizing personal care plans for individuals that may present to services, that experience disadvantage and may often fall between services, in order to reach better outcomes and reduce the need for revolving services in their lives. I enjoy improving pathways for individuals in the community to access quality support and and care and being creative with how services can adapt to accommodate new ways of working. I am passionate about the people I serve and work with and this is reflected in my personality and ability to perform.

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