Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores how, through strong self-leadership, social workers can both explain and demonstrate how social work can achieve positive change.
Trade Review"Drawing on extensive experience as practitioner, manager and passionate advocate for relationship-based social work, Bill McKitterick's analysis of the centrality of leadership throughout a social worker's career is thoroughly researched and scholarly but also intensely personal." June Thoburn, University of East Anglia
“Based on decades of experience McKitterick makes a powerful case for the authority of practice and the importance of wisdom and humility in social work accountability." Sue White, University of Birmingham
“Providing an unrelenting critique of reforms that have spawned passive social work, this is a welcome assertion of every social worker’s responsibility to reclaim the possibilities inherent in active social work.” Michael Preston-Shoot, University of Bedfordshire & Independent Chair, Luton Safeguarding Children Board
''A great handbook that every social worker should read'' British Journal of Social Work
Table of ContentsIntroduction; The meaning and the exercise of leadership in social work; The leadership vacuum; The sources of leadership in the social work profession and social work services; Clarity of purpose in social work practice; The social work manager as a leader, colleague and champion; Leadership within direct practice; Leadership within a multi-disciplinary environment; Optimism, filling the vacuum and taking the lead.
