Tell us about the #lifechangingwork you do!

We want to promote social services as a career of choice. As part of the National Workforce Plan we’re working with partners to improve the perception of social service careers and raise awareness of the entry and progression routes available.

We’ve produced a new presentation with accompanying notes to help you facilitate a discussion around effective supervision.

There are over 160,000 people on the SSSC Register who provide life changing care in adult, children’s, young people’s and social work services across Scotland.

As an SSSC registrant you make an immensely positive difference to the lives of the people you care for.

The Scottish Government has updated the Stay in Scotland toolkit to help EU citizens stay in Scotland.

The toolkit provides a range of materials for EU citizens and employers. It includes guides for EU citizens and employers as well as a leaflet, a factsheet and digital assets.

We’ve produced a new ebook to help you create content and develop open badges for your learning.

Our 23 Digital Capabilities learning resource has been incredibly popular since it was launched and we’ve received lots of requests from organisations to help create their own online learning using the 23 Things framework.

The SSSC and NHS Education for Scotland (NES) have produced an annual report on our partnership working for the first time.

People can find out if they are suited to a career in social services by using the interactive online tool A Question of Care: A career for you which now includes more care roles than before.

In this month’s episode SSSC Digital Learning and Development Adviser, George Burton, talks open education elearning and web 3.0 with Stephen Downes from the Digital Technologies Research Centre at the National Research Council of Canada.

When you make a fitness to practise referral about a registered worker there’s key information we need to know and it’s important that you give us as much of it as possible right from the start.

Anyone looking for a job that makes a difference can get help to start a career in Scotland’s social services with our new careers website www.careersincare.scot which launched today.

We’re working with the University of Strathclyde Law Clinic to help more SSSC registered workers to access free representation when they are involved in our fitness to practise investigations and hearings.

We’ve produced a series of new guides for employers that they can use to support their care at home and housing support workers when they apply for SSSC registration.