PSW Leadership within s 75 Mental Health Partnership

PSW Leadership within s 75 Mental Health Partnership When parallel lines of a partnership separated to a critical point what is the role of the PSW: • PSW place in the system • My leadership in the system • Influencing the system

Background • Mental Health s 75: partnership, contract or time to part? • Critical point • Leadership system wide issue (CQC) • Organisational tensions • Professional standards and development • Practice, social work, strengths approach, Care Act • Service user, carer, community outcomes

Key aim and strategic intentions: • Key decision of the future of Mental Health • Implement decision from a position of understanding • Commitment to the decision through behaviours, action, planning and engagement at all levels

Actions • • • ORGANISATION: CQC, MH Board, critical decision to work together MANAGEMENT: two weekly meeting, commissioners, senior and operational managers, City Wide Managers INDIVIDUAL: workshops, presentations, practice forum, WSW Day, supervision policy, First Contact/Access Moving forward together from a common understanding of ‘partnership’ Inclusion, co-design, collaborative conversations, shared solutions to common issues Visible Outcomes Increasing transparency Commitment to developing a strengths approach across all social work teams ‘Feels’ increasingly like a PARTNERSHIP Peer Review autumn 2019 Building trust RELATIONSHIPS>ASSETS>STRE NGTHS Discourse and meetings, at all levels with what's STRONG and not what's WRONG with our PARTNERSHIP shifting from a blame culture to a collaborative culture

PSW as the Host Leader • PSW role at all levels of leadership when there is a critical issue: Ø Organisation Ø Individual Ø Person/carer Ø Community

Lessons for leadership: • • Communication • Open • Honest • Engaging Common ground for building and sustaining relationships/partnership

Lessons for leadership: • What's Strong and not what's wrong • Critical reflection, restorative practice, understanding why there was a widening of the partnership lines. • Shared ownership and responsibility and commitment to bring those lines back to parallel lines together

PSW as the Host of Place Strong focus on the citizens of our Place PLACE based PSW role : • organisation • practice • people • community

Next steps: • Once mitigation work done how to sustained • Values based leadership • Values and vision statement • Where are we going as a partnership and how will it work with our culture • Focus on the person • Care act and strengths approach learning and development sessions for all staff from April 2019