About the course

This course aims to help housing support workers, residential care officers and floating support workers, who are relatively new to the sector, develop a strategy for working with clients to produce effective Support Plans.
This course is at a basic level and aims to teach the basic principles which lie behind support planning. It is a course during which participants will produce a detailed support plan based on a case study using a particularly hands-on approach. It complements the Focus on Support Planning within the framework of Supporting People course, which takes participants further towards a fuller understanding of the topic.

Course Content

• The philosophy of Support Planning
• Statutory and Voluntary Sector expectations
• User involvement in Support Planning
• The planning, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of Support Plans
• Confidentiality.
• A six-stage model for Support Planning
• Evaluation

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course participants will:

• Understood the philosophy of Support Planning.
• Awareness of the different statutory and voluntary sector points of view.
• Considered the importance of user involvement in Support Planning.
• Critically examined a six-stage process of Support Planning.
• Considered the implications of confidentiality.
• Used an existing model to produce a Support Plan.

Guy Smith has fifteen years experience in the field of social care. He has worked with a variety of client groups including the under-fives, young people and their families, the elderly and those in mental distress, both in the statutory and voluntary sectors. Within supported housing he has worked on Floating Support Schemes, in Hostels and in projects with hostels, group homes and single tenancies.  Originally a Community Worker he is a qualified Social Worker and counsellor.