Local authorities increasingly demand TQSWs capable of picking up and managing caseloads quickly with minimal supervision and training.
This is mainly due to local authorities having to focus more of their resources towards managing caseloads and less on preventative services.
Even in the two rural district hospitals, the BScN qualified nurses were not managing caseloads with the degree of autonomy that might be expected of an APN.
"It is inevitable that courts and tribunals will struggle to manage caseloads with substantially increased numbers of self-represented litigants," the CJC study notes.
This involved a range of responsibilities related to billing; organizing the massage therapists' schedules and managing caseloads; liaising with supervisors or the hospital management to address massage therapy-specific issues; undertaking marketing and promotional activities, such as orientation sessions, distributing brochures, and, maintaining a website.
As well as managing my caseload, creating care plans, attending child protection meetings, service monitoring and improvement, and policy writing, I do lots of teaching.
In addition to managing my caseload as a mental health practitioner, at Camhs we run a duty system to deal with urgent referrals, enquiries and hospital referrals for deliberate self-harm in young people aged under 18.
There are also opportunities to conduct research, albeit limited due to the time constraints of managing a caseload.
As an academic clinician managing a caseload of children with diabetes, JG will help facilitate recruitment and support the development of a robust risk management framework for the use of the information pack in practice.
This reflects the evidence that local authorities are seeking workers capable of managing complex caseloads, but there is a real danger of not investing in young workers, who are the social workers of the future.
