1. PSW Leadership within s75 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

3. Background Mental Health s75: 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

4. 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

5. Actions Outcomes
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
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

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

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

8. 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

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

10. 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