How to communicate with impact
Hands-On-Workshop is for anyone working in the social services sector.
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on 9 Aug 2017
How to communicate with impact
Whatever your form of communication in social services - reports, project proposals, online content, strategy documents, presentations - this two-hour, 'Iriss how' workshop will give you simple techniques to help you get your message across.
It will be fast-paced and participatory, with lots of fun, creative exercises.
What it will cover:
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on 9 Jun 2017
What does good leadership look like in Scotland's social services?
A free event for managers and strategic leaders working in health and social care. It is a partnership event with SSSC and supported by Scottish Care and CCPS.
The Enabling leadership research (SSSC, 2016) identified what good leadership looks like in Scotland’s social services and includes a logic model which captures the links between inputs, activities and outputs and how these contribute to positive outcomes for people using services.
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on 9 May 2017
How to communicate with impact
Whatever your form of communication in social services - reports, project proposals, online content, strategy documents, presentations - this two-hour, 'Iriss how' workshop will give you simple techniques to help you get your message across.
It will be fast-paced and participatory, with lots of fun, creative exercises.
What it will cover:
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on 18 Apr 2017
Keeping it real: service user and carer involvement in professional education
A national conference to share and promote best practice in service user and carer involvement in professional education. The conference will bring together service users and carers, students, educators, professionals and policy-makers.
It will be relevant to social work, health, education and other areas of professional education, at qualifying and post-qualifying levels. The conference sets out to:
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on 27 Mar 2017
Gypsy Travellers, human rights and social work's role launch event
“Social work is a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people.” It incorporates principles of social justice, human rights, collective responsibility and respect for diversity." (International definition of social work)
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on 27 Feb 2017
Eligibility criteria and critical need
This free workshop will explore the topics of eligibility criteria and critical need. It is a follow up to our first Iriss SEEDS workshop held in November.
The workshop will be interactive and provide reflection time and a safe space to explore key challenges from your contexts. It will also surface what we know about strengths, successes, existing good practice and build on 'what works'.
Robert White, Head of Social Work from Independent Living Fund Scotland, will co-facilitate the day.
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on 9 Feb 2017
Guerrilla Co-Design by the Iriss Pilotlight team
Hear the Iriss pilotlight team share 5 years worth of co-design knowledge
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on 12 Jan 2017
Forum: Debates for student and newly qualified social workers
Being a social worker is both a rewarding and challenging job. How do you stay safe, motivated, resilient, informed and heard?
We invite student and newly qualified social workers to the Forum to debate what matters to YOU and to identify what we can do together. It will offer discussion, peer support and sustenance! (Pizza and coffee will be available from 6.30pm).
This free event will provide attendees with the opportunity to share their experiences in a safe and honest space independent of local authority and university. It will support:
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on 11 Nov 2016
A watershed for social work in Scotland?
Audit Scotland recently concluded that social work in Scotland is at a ‘watershed’, with fundamental decisions needing to be taken on how services are provided in the future. They stressed that the public and people who access the range of social work services provided across Scotland must be more involved in shaping future provision, with a debate required 'on the level, the nature and affordability of services.'
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on 7 Nov 2016
