Staff Profiles

Pat Rhodes

Senior Lecturer in Social Work

E mail: prhodes@glos.ac.uk

Course Leader: 

Post Qualifying Award in Specialist Social Work with Children, Young People, Their Families and Carers

Academic and Professional Qualifications: 

• BA (Hons) in Applied Social Science
• Certificate of Qualification in Social Work
• Certificate in Counselling
• MSc in Health and Social Care
• Advanced Award in Social Work
• Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education

Practice Experience

2 years secondment to University of Gloucestershire in partnership role as Associate Lecturer and coordinator of Action Learning Project for Newly Qualified Social Workers

6 years as Child Protection Coordinator, working in the Gloucestershire Child Protection Unit now renamed the Safeguarding Children Service.

2 years Deputy Team Manager Cheltenham Hospital social work department
6 years paediatric social worker, Cheltenham and Gloucester hospitals
3 years Sargent Social Worker for children and young people with a diagnosis of cancer, and their families, part time, Gloucester hospital and liaising with Bristol Children’s Hospital.
3 years group work coordinator for Winston’s Wish Bereavement Support programme, part time. 3 years as a programme volunteer.

4 years working in Fostering and Adoption services
4 years working in a Children and Families Social Work Team as social worker and Acting Team Manager
2 years working in Northamptonshire Child and Family Guidance service
2 years generic social work in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.

Principle Teaching Areas

• Social work with Children and Families for Undergraduate
  and post qualifying courses in social work
• Evidence Based Practice
• Ethics and Values

Research Interests

• Students’ and newly qualified social worker's preparation and experience of coping with stress
• Reflective practice and continuing professional development
• Decision making in child care practice

Brief Biography

I started my career in 1974 in Northamptonshire moving to Gloucestershire fours years later and have worked locally since then, principally with Gloucestershire County Council in Children and Families Services, until 2003 when I joined the University as an Associate Lecturer.