Valuing Our Workforce Vow

Valuing Our Workforce (VOW) is an independent online psychosocial mentoring resource working to improve the experiences of Black, Asian, and ‘ethnic minority’ social work practitioners in the workplace. Its main focus is to offer mentoring support to those experiencing dilemmas, challenges, and barriers to progression in the workplace and to strengthen practitioner scaffold, develop realistic strategies to move forward, and celebrate stories of success. These are some of the themes that you to think things through: • Facing racism – You are not alone! Strategies to respond to inequitable practice. • Facing performance related issues – How to plan, how to survive! • AYSE challenges – How can we help? • Barriers to progression – What is getting in the way? What to do next. • Choosing the battle – Deflecting arrows: knowing what to focus on. • Impostorism – Exploring the impact on professional identity, practice, and changing the narrative. • Career Progression – Maximising stories of success and moving forward. • What next, where next? – Thinking about the present and future. Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust