Social Work at Elmore

Daisy was an Elmore Domestic Abuse Caseworker, supporting the Family Solutions Plus team working alongside social workers. She joined the charity as a social work student on placement in 2022.

“I feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to complete my final placement at Elmore Community Services; the charity’s reputation is well-known in the services I have worked in, and I had always hoped that I would be able to work within the Elmore Team at some point in my career.

This placement provided me with many opportunities to develop my practice by working with diverse services and service users. In particular, my attitude and approach towards risk assessment and management has changed drastically.

However, I believe the most significant learning for me has been around self-esteem, wellness, and team-working. I have experienced significant difficulties in my personal life since the start of my final year of this degree, and I’m not sure I would have coped had I not worked in such a supportive team.

This has taught me that self-care and wellness is more than a tokenistic notion encouraged by organisations in order to preserve its workforce by placing responsibility of maintaining resilience on the individual without providing the resources to do so. Instead, ensuring the wellbeing of a workforce is an essential, and arguably non-negotiable, part of the culture within organisations, in particular within those that support vulnerable groups.

This learning has been so valuable and impactful that I applied for a role within Elmore Community Services and am delighted to be joining the Domestic Abuse team this summer and remaining within Elmore. I’m incredibly grateful for what has not only been an informative and educational placement, but an inspirational and nurturing experience.”