Step into Leadership

Yvonne Manson, Dementia Nurse Consultant at Balhousie Care Group received an award for leadership at the RCNi Nurse Awards on 4 July. Here she tells us about how she has…

A recent leadership and supervision project worked with three organisations from across the social service sector: Nether Johnstone House, Simon Community Scotland and Dundee City Council. Each organisation formed a…

Did you know we produce lots of free and easy to use resources that can help develop your skills? As a worker in adult’s services you need to be skilled and…

Did you know we produce lots of free and easy to use resources that can help develop your skills? As a worker in children’s services you need to be skilled…

Did you know we produce lots of free and easy to use resources that can help your staff develop their skills? Workers in social services need to be skilled and…

The Scottish Social Services Leadership Strategy Group launched a refreshed leadership strategy to continue the development of leadership in Scotland’s social services at a special event in Glasgow on 8…

Our new learning resource offers you opportunities to explore your experiences and expectations of supervision and promotes good practice in supervision across social work and social care in Scotland. We…

We have published a new learning resource to support individuals and organisations who are interested in developing a coaching approach on our Step into Leadership website. It provides guidance about…

SSSC staff joined young people from Who Cares? Scotland on their residential weekend in April 2016 to deliver a workshop focusing on young people’s leadership and that of the people…

Fiona Morrison, Childhood Practice Manager at the Care and Learning Alliance (CALA), a third sector early learning and child care organisation, talks about her experience of mentoring in the service…

We have linked the Equal Partners in Care (EPiC) framework to the six leadership capabilities to support workers to promote leadership to achieve better outcomes for carers and young carers.…

We have published Promoting leadership in dementia practice illustrating connections that social service workers can make between their dementia learning and the six leadership capabilities. The Promoting Excellence learning framework…