Even though many of our graduates will have progressed in their careers since completing a case study, they are still of interest to students who wish to gain an understanding of the world of work.

Care and support Assessments
Reviews
Mental capacity assessments
Deprivation of liberty
Care planning
Safeguarding
Court of protection applications
Service oversight
Discharges from mental health wards
S117 assessments

One day I can be completing care and support assessments and the next I can have a crisis on one of my cases to deal with such as urgent mental health act referrals or even broken boilers! It's a great varied job and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else!

Supportive team
Hands on with people
Room for creativity
Fast paced

Time limits
Case load management
Panel presentations
Lack of resources

I initially was adamant that I wanted to work in child protection but when I had my first placement in statutory adult work and second in child protection I felt most at home working with adults!

Social Work MA

Sociology and Social Policy BA

I left university in June 2016 and worked as an agency worker with a Sheffield child protection team whilst awaiting my employment checks for my post with the adult social work team I am now in.

I took a year out in between my BA and MA and worked with the youth service and looked after children. Since 2010 I have also worked and volunteered as: an appropriate adult, befriender, family support worker, youth worker, contact worker, support worker at a homeless shelter and children's residential home support worker.

In the future I hope to go on to train as an AMHP with Nottinghamshire County Council.

Volunteer and work alongside your studies or in between as much as you can to stand out from the crowd when it comes to employment. Also I was advised time and time again that jobs in adult social work are hard to come by but I got here and they are there - it's just about applying yourself early to get a job.