Managing knowledge to improve social care elearning

Part of e-Learning courses

This e-learning programme helps frontline social workers understand the principles and practice of knowledge management, as well as organise and manage their knowledge and information as effectively as possible.

Webinar recording: Harnessing the power of data to transform social care

Part of COVID-19: Insights and experiences from the sector

Webinar co-hosted by SCIE and Xantura about using data to transform adult social care. Includes contributions from local authority partners.

Managing practice

This guide provides information and knowledge to support critical thinking and methods so that first line managers can apply, adapt and develop the material to their own particular work environment, current priorities and as an aid to their own continuing professional development.

Managing knowledge to improve social care: knowledge beyond the team

Part of e-Learning courses

By the end of this module you should have a better understanding of approaches to locating external knowledge resources and building a personal list.

Managing knowledge to improve social care: when knowledge gaps occur

Part of e-Learning courses

By the end of this module you should have a better understanding of strategies for managing deficiencies in organising and managing knowledge.

Communication skills: providing information and explaining

Part of e-Learning courses

This learning object will help you understand that effective and empowering communication in social work requires: planning and preparation; sensitivity towards the other person's expectations and concerns; accurate identification of the other person's information needs; a way of explaining that helps the person to understand the information they need.

Communication skills: barriers to communication

Part of e-Learning courses

Following the completion of this e-learning object, users will have an enhanced understanding of how factors can inhibit, interrupt or confuse the communication between social workers and service users, carers and others

Managing knowledge to improve social care: social care 2.0: innovation through technology

Part of e-Learning courses

This module highlights: the term web 2.0 and its associated technologies; the evidence that web 2.0 tools can support user-centred care; how web 2.0 tools can be used to support your practice; how web 2.0 tools can be used to improve the health and experience of care of people who use services.

Managing knowledge to improve social care: how do I organise my knowledge?

Part of e-Learning courses

By the end of this e-learning module you should have a better understanding of how the knowledge can be organised and accessed and the consequences of poor organisation.

Managing knowledge to improve social care: types of knowledge

Part of e-Learning courses

This e-learning object will help you to: understand the cycle that knowledge typically goes through; consider what knowledge sources to use and when; use the SCIE Five types of Knowledge framework in your work; make a meaningful link between different sources of knowledge; evaluate each type of knowledge.