The Social Work Organisational Resilience Diagnostic (SWORD): Video learning resource

As a leader, how can you support practitioners in your organisation to build and sustain resilience? Does your organisation have a strategy to support practitioner wellbeing? The Social Work Organisational Resilience Diagnostic (SWORD) is a dedicated tool and workbook which aims to improve organisational resilience for all practitioners in social care contexts.

Introduction

The Social Work Organisational Resilience Diagnostic (SWORD), is a survey and online workbook designed for use across the whole social work and broader social care profession.

The SWORD diagnostic survey is open twice a year in Spring and Autumn and enables the collection and analysis of data from social care practitioners across organisations to assess organisational health and highlight priority areas for improvement. The workbook offers targeted, evidence-informed tasks and strategies to support organisational improvements and develop conditions to better support social care practitioner wellbeing.

Five key foundational principles (KFPs) or domains provide the structure for the survey and workbook. Below are five videos which discuss each of these domains and highlight some of the tasks and strategies in the workbook to help leaders to create the conditions that enable practitioners to sustain and develop resilience.

SWORD was designed by Professor Gail Kinman, Birkbeck University of London, Dr Louise Grant, University of Bedfordshire and Dr Kelly Alexander, University of Bedfordshire and was co-produced with leaders in the Research in Practice network.

For further information you can visit the SWORD website or look at the Resilience topic page.