Judith Catherine Mullineux

Older people’s social work safe staffing supply and workforce demands analysis: A case study from Northern Ireland

Paula McFadden, Justin MacLochlainn, Rachel Naylor, Mary McColgan et autres

Abstract In the UK, a range of operational tools and policy guidelines regulate staffing in various Health and Social Care sectors. Nonetheless, frameworks to ensure safe staffing in social work remain less advanced. This study focuses on older people’s social work community …

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Safe Staffing and Workload Management in Social Work: A Scoping Review of Legislation, Policy and Practice

Paula McFadden, Hannah Davies, Jill Manthorpe, Justin MacLochlainn et autres

Abstract In Northern Ireland, social work-specific legislation is planned for safe staffing across the governmental sector. As part of a broader research project to inform this development, we conducted a scoping review seeking examples of safe staffing definitions, safe staffing-related legislation, policy …

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Perceptions of Safe Staffing, Self-Reported Mental Well-being and Intentions to Leave the Profession among UK Social Workers: A Mixed Methods Study

Paula McFadden, Justin MacLochlainn, Jill Manthorpe, Rachel Naylor et autres

Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine social workers’ perceptions of safe staffing levels and correlate these perceptions with standardised measurements of well-being in the UK. This cross-sectional mixed-methods study analysed data from 406 social workers from November 2022 until …

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Accountability for Risk Decision Making in Social Care

David Carson, Judith Catherine Mullineux

Making Sense of Risk: Social Work at the Boundary between Care and Control

Ravit Alfandari, Brian John Taylor, Mary Baginsky, Jim Campbell et autres

‘Risk’ has become a central concept for social work practice in countries with more developed social welfare systems. As argued by Hazel Kemshall and colleagues, ‘risk’ has often replaced ‘need’ as the main driver for social work interventions as societies seek to …

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Group decision-making theories for child and family social work

Ravit Alfandari, Brian John Taylor, Guy Enosh, Campbell Killick et autres

There is increasing interest in decision making in social work. Much of the attention has been on individual professional judgement rather than on group decisions processes. This paper outlines key theoretical approaches from diverse fields of knowledge for conceptualising professional group decision …

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Using intuition in social work decision making

Alessandro Sicora, Brian John Taylor, Ravit Alfandari, Guy Enosh et autres

Social workers must make ‘justifiable’ decisions, but ‘intuition’ is also important in assessment, decision making and working with risk. We discuss intuition within professional judgement as being part of our cognitive faculties; emotionally-informed reasoning processes connecting workers with clients and families; and …

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Testing partnership and preparedness in Northern Ireland during COVID-19

Marian O’Rourke, Catherine Maguire, Liz Tanner, Judith Catherine Mullineux

Northern Ireland has partnership arrangements for qualifying and post-qualifying social work education that joins the regulator, universities and employers in equipping social workers to practice safely to a high-quality standard. Covid-19 highlighted the need for social workers to manage its impact on …

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Female Care Leavers’ Experience of the Staff-Child Relationship While Living in an Intensive Support Children's Home in Northern Ireland

Jenni Rice, Judith Catherine Mullineux, Campbell Killick

Background and purpose: Compassion and human connection are core social work values and as such they inform our interventions in all settings. It is generally recognised that young people need love and positive attention to thrive, but residential care provision often focuses …

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Professional judgement about re-offending: Factorial survey

Judith Catherine Mullineux, Brian John Taylor, Melanie Giles

Summary Social workers in criminal justice provide reports to courts, including assessments of the likelihood of re-offending, which are used to assist in judicial decisions. This study used a factorial survey with 93 social workers employed as probation officers to measure factors …

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Long term effect of primary health care training on HIV testing: A quasi-experimental evaluation of the Sexual Health in Practice (SHIP) intervention

Kamla Pillay, Melissa Gardner, Allon Gould, Susan Otiti et autres

BACKGROUND: To examine the effect of Sexual Health in Practice (SHIP) training for general practitioners (GPs) on HIV testing rates in Haringey, a deprived area of London, UK, with a population of over 250,000 and HIV prevalence of 0.7% (in 2014). SHIP …

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Care leavers’ personal constructs regarding staff-child relationships

Judith Catherine Mullineux

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